Restaurants Must Mobilize to Save Fisheries
Availability of fish is on the decline because of insatiable demand. Without intervention, commercial fisheries could be depleted to a 10% production rate by mid-century.
As the demand increases, the availability diminishes and we begin to see a decrease in fish population amongst our fisheries and wildlife across the globe. This is something the big suits behind the golden arches and other fast food franchises believe is going to be a problem - and some have joined forces to come up with a solution to the drying supplies. Without the preservation of our fisheries and wildlife our ecological system will perish.
According to a United Nations study, if we do nothing to save what little wildlife and aquatic life we have left, there is a great likelihood that all of our commercial fisheries are going to be forced to a 10% production rate by the middle of our current century. At the moment restaurants and fast food industries utilize 30% of all aquatic life for human consumption.
As Greenpeace has taken efforts to educate some of the larger food companies of their detrimental impact on the ocean life, they have acknowledged the efforts of certain private companies whom have contributed to the efforts of increases wildlife and aquatic fisheries, and managed to help contain our current aquatic population. Although when one fast food chain can acquire 50,000 metric tons of aquatic life per calendar year, this can quickly grow out of control. Together with a handful of other fast food chains, big names such as McDonalds, Burger king, Long John Silvers and a small handful of others, there has been a coalition built to help maintain our current aquatic life, and help the reproduction and survival of future life as well.
There are obvious signs that an alternative means of acquiring food sources will be required in the near future if we hope to save the ecological system as we know it today. Without the ocean life we will begin to see a ripple in the circle of life, as we know it in the Animal Kingdom world. When confronted several of the fast food chain CEO’s would not go on the record, but would comply with the agreement that something needs to be done.
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