Report warns of global food insecurity as climate change destroys fisheries

[Judi Lynn]

Report warns of global food insecurity as climate change destroys fisheries

Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan expected to be hardest hit by decline in fish stocks in coming decades

Suzanne Goldenberg, US environment correspondent
guardian.co.uk, Monday 24 September 2012 03.00 EDT

The Persian Gulf, Libya, and Pakistan are at high risk of food insecurity in coming decades because climate change and ocean acidification are destroying fisheries, according to a report released on Monday.

The report from the campaign group Oceana warns of growing food insecurity, especially for poorer people, from the Faroe Islands in the North Atlantic to the Cook Islands in the South Pacific, Eritrea, Guyana, Indonesia, Kuwait and Singapore.

Some of the countries at highest risk were in oil-rich – and politically volatile – regions.

"The Persian Gulf is actually expected to be one of the hardest-hit regions. In terms of fish catch they are supposed to lose over 50% of their fisheries," said Matt Huelsenbeck, an Oceana marine scientist and author of the report.

More:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/sep/24/food-climate-change-fisheries

[99th_Monkey]

1. "ocean acidification"? A euphemism for major oil spills + ongoing Fukushima radiation leakage? ~nt

[GliderGuider]

4. No, it's a result of the chemical reaction (CO2+H2O -> H2CO3)

By burning billions of tonnes of coal, oil and natural gas we are releasing billion of tonnes of carbon dioxide into the air. Some of that additional CO2 is combining with ocean water and raising the level of carbonic acid in the oceans - to such an extent that it's beginning to interfere with the life cycles of ocean fish.

[NYC_SKP]

6. Yes.

Thank you.

[99th_Monkey]

7. Who knew? Thanks for clearing that up for me. ~nt

[AverageJoe90]

2. Thanks, Judi.

This is just one more reason we need to stop drilling for oil in any of the oceans. Period.

[xchrom]

3. Du rec. Nt

[CRH]

5. K&R, n/t