Will the ocean ever run out of fish? - Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Jennifer Jacquet
View full lesson: https://ed.ted.com/lessons/will-the-ocean-ever-run-out-of-fish-ayana-elizabeth-johnson-and-jennifer-jacquet When most people think of fishing, we imagine relaxing in a boat...
========== Fish are in trouble. The cod population off Canada's East Coast
collapsed in the 1990s, intense recreational
and commercial fishing has decimated goliath grouper populations
in South Florida, and most populations of tuna
have plummeted by over 50%, with the Southern Atlantic bluefin
on the verge of extinction. Those are just a couple of many examples. Overfishing is happening
all over the world. How did this happen? When some people think of fishing, they imagine relaxing in a boat
and patiently reeling in the day's catch. But modern industrial fishing,
the kind that stocks our grocery shelves, looks more like warfare. In fact, the technologies they employ
were developed for war. Radar, sonar, helicopters, and spotter planes are all used ...