Amigos. In an effort to keep everybody informed, here is an interesting article on squid—Gustavo’s favorite party snack. It’s actually a series of articles, all well done, including the watercolor pictures (really cool, wish I had the originals). The series is called Ocean Shock and it deals with climate change, or at least ocean warming. I like it is because it doesn’t entirely bash climate change as the only cause of all our problems. “But now, fluctuations in ocean temperatures and years of overfishing and lax regulatory oversight have drastically depleted populations of the translucent squid in waters around Japan.”
In other parts of the world with diminishing fish populations, simple, well enforced regulations have managed to turn the tables on the decreasing yearly numbers to where there is now a plentiful supply. Note that any mention of yearly-catch totals is done in thousands of metric tons. I’m thinking of the Falkland’s, for example. The British could not come up with any laws to protect their cod industry at home, until it went the way of the passenger pigeon. But they could in the Falkland’s where none of their constituency fished, at least not in great numbers Now, that part of the ocean is well protected and the fish population is a record. My cousin Fernando, yes, the one that claims that God is Chileno and in the Navy, has visited. He reports getting an escort from a British patrol boat when they were 150 miles out from the islands. The limeys boarded, (a well-executed maneuver to his practiced eyes) confirmed it was only a tourist boat with no nets, etc., and let them continue on. Now, the protected waters around the Falklands provide the nursery space for the thousands of square miles of ocean around it. Noteworthy is that water temperatures around the islands has dropped in recent years. Go figure.
Good reading, interesting. I recommend it.
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https://www.reuters.com/investigates/special-report/ocean-shock-squid/
