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LET THEM EAT FISH!
by
Charles F Vinson
U
world populatioo predic1ions oome tnle.
food
productaon woddwide must somehow
be expande<! to stave
otr
inevitable famUle.
M0$1 c:Jiimates rusgest that pTOduction must
double in the
nexl
twenty ycars mcrely
ror
nutritional standard$
to
remain at their
present jnadcquate leveJs.
At
present rates
land ag.ricvlture
is
ex·
panding more slowly than population. In
addition, furure expansion oo a largc
~ea.fe
is
un\ikcly bccau..e
m~t'of
thc wodd's arable
land b alrtady under cultivalion.
Tbcsc racu
are
nothing ncw to scocntisu,
wbo for ye.an havc beco ..arc:!un¡ for
a
workablc way out or thc food
vs.
populauon
nigbtmare.
In
the past many forward- look–
ut¡ agronomists
pu.1
lheir faith io thc ooeans
as tbc
salry
savior of earth's maloounJbed
miUions. The 1dea was prom.ising because
tbc.
sca's
bounty scemed limilless. Por
decade• the annual oce.ao harvest ¡rcw
'Ol
double the population nuc.
But no longer. Today. overfishins and pol–
lutioo have contributed to the deplcuon and
vinuaJ
dcsttuction of some of lhe world'1
ricbest lislun& gounds.
In
1975, tbc hungJy
world"• dcmand ror fisb and fish pro.ctuel$
wdl be 107 million lons.
Some
sciedtists esti·
mate thac the
seas can support
an
annual
tal<
e oronly
100
miIlion tons. Tbc
fisb
stocks
cannot
rcplcnl$h themselves
Crom
yu.r to
year
af
more is taken.
..
To
make
maucrs worse.
cooperadon
be–
tw~en
maj<ir tlshing nations
is
practically
oone.xistcnt. Disputes such as thc tcelandic
cod
war and
che-
Ecuadorian tuna
tuss.lc
are
not
uncommon. Nations
with
ma.ssivc
fistt ...
ing
fteets
secm
to
care little about preservt.ng
the oe:c.an's bounty for furure tenerauons
Tbc ídca apparcntly
is
ro incrt&Se tbe
tnnual
take reaudi<U orthe eonsequ<DCCS.
Today. rhe. only
real
bope of sípufi.cantly
and beoellcally incrcasing marine pTOduc–
tivity - and ovcrall wodd food produc:tion -
docs not lie in thc higb seas. but in rhe
shallows of
che
continental shelves. There,
the
flcdgling sc.ience of
aquac;ulture
-
or
mllricultun
as
it
is
called whcn praetJced in
salt water - shows good promise
o(
putting
more
food
on
tomorrow'.s t.able.
Assumon¡ that otfthore pollution and ex–
ploitaoon or eoastal oreas does not desuoy
SUJtab(t SJlCS
(Oc
mariculture -
U
famous
ooe&n0111Phcr Jacqucs Yvea-Cooteau be–
locves
is
happening -
then
maneulture
hu
the statatical capability
Q(
mceúng tbeloog–
term requircments of man"s future meat–
protein nceds.
Jndonesia is a case in point. [o t.he past
fivc year' the lndonesian fisb harvcst hu
10
jumped
from SSOO.OOO
per year
10
over SW
mlllioa.. Some of the inae.ue
was
due lO
more mtensc onastal tishlD&- More signifi–
eantly.
!he eoastal ponds reeently developed
in
notthem
Java
bave madc
a
tre.mendous
eontribution · in the rorm or milk-tlsh aod
shrimp. A good pond will produce around
onc ton of tlsh per hco1arc (21\ acres). but
scientísrs teoding intcrucly managcd pónds
have produced four times that figure.
On tbe' otber"síde o/ tbe I'(Orld,
lrri't~ll
biolog.ists bavc rcoently bad gratifying suc–
ocss
in ntising turbot from tbe eg stagc
througb mcwnorpbosis
10
tbe adul1
fisb.
All
was
done
in
fish
tan.lcs.
wttb
a
tremendous
)'lcld per bectare
o(
water.
Aquacu1turists bavc mas:tered the
tecb·
niquc of sbellfisb busbandry
10
a
grcater
degree than for any othcr
type
of marine
life. In Spai.n,
rafts
trailing 20-foot ropes 10
which mussellarvac are attachcd produce
80
miIlion pounds
of
mcat
per year.
Tbc Japanese have long beco mas1011 of
oyster
culture. usin¡
a.n
approach
similar
to
tbe Spaniards. Tbcy now average ncarly
SO
miUioo pounds of oystcr mcat per year per
acn:. Tbe Australians
&re
also signifieant
pTOducers. usin¡ thc same
rall
and ropc
methods.
In
thc
U.S,
cxperimcnl$ in
this
typc
of
mariculture
in the
wateh
off New
England are
also
províng suooessful.
Wbi1e
otfshore
pollution
is
indccd a
men·
ace
to the natural fishing industry. one form
of emue-nt may provc
to
be
a rcsourcc. Ther·
mal
discharges into
lhe ocean have beco a
point of environmental ooncem (or sorne
time, yet now there
i.s
evidenc:e that ln some
areas the raised water temperatures may
prove
beneticia.l
to
manculture. Most mari–
culture auempts
ill
nonhem
,.,ater$ \ilo'Cre
lunited to thc warmcr
montlu. because
the
marine population
is
depcnde.nt on the natu–
ral nutrient c:onceotralioo U)
draanage
from
riveJ'$ and estuaries. Naturally, that nutrient
content js higber in summer.
On 1he other hand, thc thermal discharse
rrom
a powcr p1ant is a aouroc of wann
water, wbich enab1es: thc maintcnance
or
proper
temperatures and water cnvironment
- and thus rood &upply - a.ll year rouod.
Tbís has proven profitable on Long lsland.
New York,
wbc~
mollusb rucb u oysrers
are now bem& culuvated
ye.u
round on a
commerciaJ scale,
WtOS
t.M
coolant •"ater
from
the Long lsland Li¡hun& Company at
Northport, Long lsland.
•
Catfub
are bein& cultured eommercially
~~~~~o~~~( ~~:c~~i~e~~':ed to.w:~ r::~
(Conrinurd on p<lgc 13. col. /)
Keeping Your
Wallet Above
Water
Evcry day bundneds or penple <b.scovcr
:.hat they c:ao no lon.g.cr tnake
en.d.s
meet.
They
encounter
some son or
6nanaal
aet–
baek, job loss. and <bey finally fail at thcir
finanoial brinkma.nship.
Whatcver
lhe
reasons. there are
somc pos–
itivo steps tbat people shollld take 10 ma.kc
lifc out on thc financia) limb more tolerable.
Plu;n Trutlt
intervieWed
Stan Benson
of
Consumcr
Crcdi1
Cou:nselors,
lne.,
a
noo–
proftt scrvice dedicated
to
bclping th<>K wbo
ase finaocially ovcr-indebted.
His
advice
rol·
lows:
PT: Would you gire us o pro file of rh•
k/
NI
of
~rJon
who comes ro you for h.Jp!
SB: Wc find people eoming 10 us with takc–
homc pay of
$400
a
mooth. Wc
are
also
dcaling with peoplc wbo eani
$35,000
a
year. with professionals - doeton, auorncys.
teachers.
e.nd
even
sorne
CPA's. Thc
average
indcbtedne$5 per client today.
in
Los
Ao¡c–
les, ís
$9.600
(exclusive of autos and real
estatc); ayear
•&o
that was only
$6.000.
PT: Wloar
,.,.
rhe
-ns for
rh<#
f'"'plu"
jiNuodolprohl<m4f
SB: We
sce
a
a
awfullot 9f people who
&re
goiog througb divoree. whicb ís dcvutatins
financially for both parties.
AJso
major med·
ical setbacks. peoplc who didn"t have the
medicaJ insurancc
to
eover that cmcrgency
tbat came aJons. How many people can
bandle
á
$50,000
cancer
m
thcir fenúly'?
Eluy
credit
is •
factor - tbc temptatíons or
C&S)'
crcdiL
And. of
<»urse.
rccession and in&tion.
Many people who eomc 10 us
were
watc:bins
it preuy dose. Thcy were nght on thc linc,
and suddcnly evcrything wu ten to founeen
percenr higher in cost
PT: In our socltty_, art ptoplt owtr•Jtimulated
to
engage
in cre_dit buyíng?
SB: Sorne peoplc are what wc call "credi–
holics."
1
know of people who will ·say.
""Lefs go out and just
have
a
day
at the
shoppiog mall," for lack or anytlung clse
10
do. We
=.
lot or
tbis -
tbc Impulse buy«.
noo sítúng do..., and planrun¡ bis necds.
bu!
¡us< walking
by
tbe siOre and Sl}ing. "Hcy,
loob
sneal"
And be has the eard handy.
PT:
Don credir bvyíng help
tJr
hlndu o
per–
son in lhe (ong run?
SB:
1
thin)c that most cconomists wollld
agrce tbat the use of credit is a very impor·
tant aspec:t of American life. h's really
a
very
small pere<:ntasc,
in
tbe long run. who either
abus~
lbe privilcge or tbtough mísfonune
, •• into problems with thc
use
ororedil.
PT:
lf..,_M
i.t
dnp
/11
debi,
whot
'X»Írive
SlqJS
tQJt
lfL
tJJld1
SB: lmmcdiately be sltould oontac:t
bis
cred·
llort and tell thcm, "l'm having
a
problcm.
r·m
80Íil&
througb
1
divorce." "l"ve just loS!
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