Re: Overfishing

[Jim Devine <jdevine03@xxxxxxxxx>]

> Scientists reported last year that fish would be gone from the
> oceans by 2048 if this behavior goes unchecked -- though Clover points
> out that it's not as if the seas will be empty. In the absence of all
> the fish we've eaten, we'll also experience a surfeit of species like
> jellyfish because biodiversity has been undone.

I heard an interview on the radio (perhaps with Clover himself) that
pointed out that in some countries, people already eat jellyfish.

BTW, overfishing is a  example of market failure that's well known
even among neoclassicals (the "tragedy of the commons"). Why don't
they respond?
--
Jim Devine / "The price one pays for pursuing any profession or
calling is an intimate knowledge of its ugly side." -- James Baldwin