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To: KLP who wrote (2199)11/7/2002 5:26:35 PM
From: Win Smith  Read Replies (2) of 6901
 
North Sea Cod Crisis Brings Call for Nations to Act nytimes.com

[ a little followup, apparently from today's paper, despite the dateline ]

GILLELEJE, Denmark, Nov. 3 — The cod are disappearing from the deep gray waters that stretch to the horizon from this gull-festooned town, a stark reminder that there is a finite number of fish in the sea and that man's growing appetite for seafood, if left unchecked, could eventually drive many species to extinction.

Scientists warned last month that unless almost all commercial fishing in the North Sea was banned, the cod stocks might soon collapse, meaning that the number of cod necessary to repopulate the overfished region could fall so low that the popular food fish might never recover.

"The cod are now so depleted we're not really sure of their population dynamics," said Henrik Sparholt, a fisheries assessment scientist at the International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, which has advised closing the North Sea to most fishing indefinitely.

Mr. Sparholt said the number of North Sea cod was at its lowest level ever and was half of what was considered the minimum for assured propagation.

The cod crisis is one of many facing the international community as countries compete for thinning stocks in the world's once fish-thick seas. Fish are the last food source hunted on a large scale in the wild, and the United Nations warns that the world's 17 main fisheries are fished at or above sustainable levels. . . .
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