Disclaimer: The photo above is in no way intended to hold Ghostface responsible for overfishing all over the world…

The world’s fisheries were in danger of overfishing. In many areas in the world the fish populations cannot recover their numbers after they are harvested. Resulting in less fishes, less food, less money for people dependent on fish and or course changes to the ecosystem.

“Two years after a study warned that overfishing could cause a collapse in the world’s seafood stocks by 2048, an update says the tide is turning, at least in some areas” Associated Press reports.

For this story what else could I play? Ghostface talks about fish more than any rapper I know of, making this choice a no brainer for me. Here’s an obvious selection off of his first album Ironman. This song samples Otis Redding’s “Change is Gonna Come”. The first line of “Fish” is “We eat fish, tossed salads and make rap ballads“. I love it when he makes it plain…

A recent study found: “Of 10 areas of the world that were studied, significant overfishing continues in three, but steps have been taken to curb excesses in five others.” Michael Fogarty of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration is confident overfishing can be reversed and cites “such steps as exclusion areas, changes in fishing gear, assignments of rights to harvest and incentives for fishers to take a long-term view.”

Alaska and New Zealand were proactive regarding the overfishing problem before it was really a problem there.

Southern Australia, the Northeast U.S., the Newfoundland-Labrador area and the California Current, which flows south along the U.S. West Coast have taken measures to stop excess exploitation.

North and Baltic seas and the Bay of Biscay region are still being overfished.

Unfortunately, for Africa overfishing continues and even getting an accurate fish harvesting account is difficult. It seems not only are the fish populations being exploited so are the people. Off the East and West coast of Africa foreign fleets are granted access to local waters. They sell their fish almost exclusively to industrialized countries, thereby competing and undercutting the local fisherman.

Another study shows Chesapeake Bay’s oyster population is thriving after the local oyster population collapsed. A successful restoration effort was launched in 2004 which involved the construction of artificial reefs in protected areas of the Great Wicomico River in Virginia. Hopefully similar efforts may be duplicated in Africa and elsewhere.

Src:Fish for dinner: Overfishing easing in some areas