2010 Archives
Fisheries Scientist Ray Hilborn Finds Commercial Fishing to Have a Lesser Impact on the Environment than Land Based Animal Farming
Professor Hilborn, from Washington University, has evaluated published research into the effects on the environment of protein production (including farming animals on land and catching wild fish). He found that on average, commercial fishing had a lesser impact on the environment than land-based animal farming. According to him, if we replaced the protein we got from fish with land based agriculture, we’d need extra grazing land equal to the entire world’s rainforest 22 times over. Seafood industries are held to “higher environmental standards generally” when compared with other food producers, he says. To read more go to: https://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/SC1003/S00050.htm
Summit for the Fishermen: Jeff Aiken climbs Mt. Kilamanjaro
Hatteras seafood dealer Jeff Aiken reached the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro, Africa’s highest peak, on January 29, 2010. Aiken’s adventure was organized in part to help raise funds for CFA and to educate the public about the challenges of the fishing industry.
Aiken unfurled a CFA banner at the summit and called for people to join him by supporting the cause by contributing to CFA anything from a penny to a dollar for every foot he successfully climbed.
“The public hears a lot of information about overfishing and the need for conservation, but I don’t think they hear enough about what is happening to the families that harvest seafood. I hope to help draw attention to that part of the story with this climb,” he said.
Aiken paid all expenses associated with the climb, and all donations will go entirely to CFA. To contribute, send a check to: Commercial Fishermen of America, c/o Maryland Watermen’s Association, P.O. Box 436, Chester, MD 21619.
