Go Blue! Seafood Sustainability

Man-made climate change: The ultimate threat to sustainable fisheries

The United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) comprised of Nobel Prize-winning scientists recently reported that ocean warming and acidification due to climate change have the potential to devastate the current productive capacities of our oceans.  Never before has the U.N. put out such a strongly worded warning concerning such risks.

Climate change caused by CO2 emissions from the burning of fossil fuels is the ultimate threat to the long-term sustainability of our fisheries. In light of this IPCC report, it is finally time for the worldwide seafood industry, governments, NGOs and all fossil fuel energy companies to unequivocally acknowledge that this threat is real. All the current efforts to manage fisheries for sustainability will be for naught and seem very narrow-minded if we cannot uniformly acknowledge this fact.

By universally acknowledging the reality of man-made climate change the world will be taking that requisite initial step toward cooperatively solving its associated problems.

Please leave your comments on this often times politically charged issue.  Sincerely, Dave