BBC News: Fisheries waste ‘costs billions’

The Oceans are the last frontier on this planet. They basically are unprotected - and therefore nobody really cares what’s happening there.

If you fish inside a nations maritime border you can run into serious trouble for over-fishing, but on the wide Oceans nobody cares.

So over-fishing is slowly killing one species after another and creating so called deadzones, where there is nothing in the water, because the circle of life has been eaten by us.

It is almost to late to establish better rules and technologies for industrial fishing. And recognize that the vast oceans are not so vast and plentiful they once were.

The way we produce food is simply stupid. We ship our calories back and forth across the globe - often several times, because one industrial food processing service might be cheaper at the other end of the world. But all this shipping costs huge amounts of energy and causes lots of pollution.

Produce locally, ship locally, eat locally. That would be sustainable. Today be can grow almost all exotic foods even in cold countries - and off season.

It is amazing how much effort people put into visiting fish and water mammals like dolphins and whales. If we continue to eat, pollute and destroy their habit as effective as in the last 200 years there won’t be much to see in a short time.