Talk:Fishery
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[edit] Sources
Does anyone (like the people who added them? ;)) have sources for these two statements?
"One of the world’s longest lasting trade histories is the trade of dry cod from the Lofoten area to the southern parts of Europe, Italy, Spain and Portugal. The cod trading started during the viking period or before, has been going on for more than 1000 years and is still important."
and
"In India , the Pandyas a classical Dravidian Tamil kingdom were known for the pearl fishery as early as 1st century BC. Their seaport Tuticorin was known for deep sea pearl fishery and the paravas who were the inventors of the catamaran were one of the richest community because of the pearl trade, Navigation knowlegde and Fisheries." thanks -- Brassratgirl 01:58, 14 November 2005 (UTC)
[edit] Further Info on Economic Fish Stocks Needed
I'm in Canada, and on a Canadian Broadcasting Corp (CBC) talk show I heard a prominent German fisheries biologist interviewed at length about global declines in the stocks of what he referred to as "the noble fishes" – the larger ocean fish often preferred as food for people, such as tuna, cod, halibut, salmon, and so on. His claim was that all of these fish are in decline, and he was alerting the thinking people, policy makers, and environmentalists of the world to it.
This fact (if it is a fact, and I suspect it is true) is alluded to in only the vaguest and most general terms in the present article. The article speaks of environmental impacts, overfishing, etc in a rather sketchy, uncompelling way.
Does anyone concerned with this article and its basic inclusiveness and quality have more information to provide? Please do. Joel Russ 17:43, 2 September 2006 (UTC)
