All dead all dead / All the dreams we had
And I wonder why I still live on
All dead all dead /And alone I’m spared
My sweeter half instead
All dead and gone / all dead
- queen

I’ve not eaten fish since the early 90s.  I like some fish actually. Here in Wisconsin every Friday is fish gluttony day with the traditional “Friday Fish-Fry” on offer at every restaurant worth it’s salt.  This is though, the oceans are in big trouble and we’ve known it for a long time.  Like so many other big environmental problems, we can’t seem to get our minds around it, so we just keep contributing to it.  The early 90s collapse of the Northern Cod fishery in eastern Canada was a wake up call.  In the end it didn’t matter if you were for or against a  moratorium, there just we rent any fish left.   Of course globally we’ve not learned much from that nightmare either.

These days fish can’t even catch a break at the bottom of the sea. Today I was doing a bit of heavy reading with the Marine Policy’s Sustainability of deep-sea fisheries paper.  I’m still not going to be eating fish any time soon.  BTW, if you’re not into heavy reading, just grab the first and very last paragraph.  Oh, and look at the fun charts and graphs… That will just about cover it.