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China Dominates 44% of Visible Fishing Activity Worldwide

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144 points scubakid | 1 comments | 29 Jun 25 21:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source
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kingstnap ◴[30 Jun 25 00:47 UTC] No.44418044[source]▶
I wonder about engineering yourself a productive fishery instead of exploiting wild stocks.

Most of the ocean is practically a desert. The only productive places are near land, where deep water up wells and returns sunken nutrients back to the surface.

I'm sure we could study and engineer some sort of nutrient dumping and cycling scheme. I bet you could make vastly more food while leaving a lot of ocean alone.

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1. squidsoup ◴[30 Jun 25 03:29 UTC] No.44419038[source]▶
The recent David Attenborough documentary Ocean suggested that the Papahānaumokuākea Marine conservation area off the coast of Hawaii had contributed to abundant fishing stock outside the reserve. It was suggested that if we reserved 30% of the ocean, we would see a huge increase in fisheries the world over.

Another recent discovery is that although we've damaged our fisheries significantly, oceanic ecosystems apparently recover much faster than terrestrial ecosystems if left untouched, within several years.