Four years of blogging about the vast complex environmental
and socio-economic aspects associated with advancing sustainable seafood
production has been an unprecedented dynamic learning experience for Sea Port. Now is the perfect time for Sea Port to pause,
analyze, and to highlight the four main blog takeaways from the past four years
that have stood out to us the most. While the following four selected
highlights are conclusory, speculative, and prospective in nature, Sea Port’s steadfast
blog message throughout the entire past four years has always been a simple one: By increasing our consumption of
sustainably produced seafood from wild fisheries and aquaculture we will
advance the entire health of our beautiful blue planet and that of our personal
health and wellbeing.
Four Standout Blog Takeaways from the Past 4 Years:
1. There is now a greater worldwide consensus that
the Earth is in a new epoch called the Anthropocene in which humans are causing
climate change, ocean acidification, destructive pollution, and habitat changes
that are now becoming major challenges to achieving sustainable wild fisheries
and aquaculture. This new consensus is a
very positive development because it is creating a united global effort to confront
these negative consequences of humanity’s remarkably successful journey through
history to become Earth’s most dominant inhabitant.
2. The explosion in global communication, driven
primarily by the exponential growth of the internet and cellular networks, has
enabled the instantaneous sharing of fishery science data and technological
advancements. This has resulted in rapid
sustainability improvements in both wild fisheries and aquaculture on a global
basis. What you cannot measure you cannot improve and this is being addressed
by the rapid development of high-tech sensors that can measure a myriad of
physical, chemical, visual, and biological variables in real-time. These
sensors will transform responsible management practices for both wild fisheries
and aquaculture going forward.
3. The loss of global biodiversity and natural habitats
must be halted in order to safeguard the creative adaptive capacity of Mother
Nature that ensures that our productive natural resources will always continue
to have the resiliency to provide for our long-term survival.
4. Sustainable food production, whether from the
wild or farms, requires the responsible management of limited natural resources
and physical spaces in order to achieve the maximum sustainable yield of food
from our finite planet. World human
population, as it expands toward 10 billion by the year 2050, may likewise require
proactive responsible management efforts to achieve the maximum sustainable
yield in terms of the actual human numbers that can inhabit our Earth on a
sustainable basis.
Conclusion: The consensus at Sea Port is that
the color blue is the color of optimism and that therefore our Earth is the epitome
of such. It is with this strong belief
that Sea Port enthusiastically looks forward to sharing many more blogs that
highlight and champion the responsible stewardship of all the precious aquatic
resources of our wondrous blue planet.
Sincerely, Dave Glaubke
Director of Sustainability Initiatives – Sea Port
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