[Coral-List] Cause of current coral reef and many other problems.

[Bill Allison]

I have run into industry consultants who ignore technology as one of the
determinants of fishing effort even though it is explicitly recognized as
such in the fisheries economics literature (a no-brainer imho).

On Fri, Aug 4, 2023 at 8:39 AM Douglas Fenner via Coral-List <
coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:

>   And also as Paul Ehrlich wrote, technology.  The tools used in fishing
> coral reefs today were not available in pre-modern times, no steel hooks,
> nylon lines, no aluminum and fiberglass boats, no engines, mask, snorkel,
> fins regulator, tanks and on and on.  Hooks were carved from shells, lines
> formed from coconut fibers, boats from hollowed out logs, powered by
> paddling or sails, etc.  NO ONE on this planet uses only the old tools to
> fish, because it takes a lot more hard work and is much less effective.
> Overfishing is largely possible because of technology, it would be much
> harder without.
>
> On Tue, Aug 1, 2023 at 4:02 AM John Ware via Coral-List <
> coral-list at coral.aoml.noaa.gov> wrote:
>
> > Hello List,
> >
> > As I have been saying for many, many years: The problem is that there
> > are too many of us  and each of us (including myself!) consume too many
> > resources.
> >
> > John
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