Monday, March 14, 2005
Fish stocks down 96%
There is nothing like a little ecological depression to start your day.
J.
DANIELLE SHERRY, SHORE PUBLSHING, CT -- The fish stocks on the Nova Scotia Shelf have dropped off by more than 96 percent since 1850, and the decline may be irreversible, a prominent maritime historian warned last week. Dr. Jeffery Bolster, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, delivered this unsettling news during a Coastal Perspectives lecture on the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut that coincided with the publication of a study in the new edition of "Frontiers in Ecology," a scientific journal. . . The research on the study was the first of its kind. Scientists, historians, ecologists, and mathematicians all joined forces to calculate the first-ever historical estimate of cod levels. The group used old schooner logbooks and catch records, in coordination with a new mathematical formula to reach their results.
J.
DANIELLE SHERRY, SHORE PUBLSHING, CT -- The fish stocks on the Nova Scotia Shelf have dropped off by more than 96 percent since 1850, and the decline may be irreversible, a prominent maritime historian warned last week. Dr. Jeffery Bolster, associate professor of history at the University of New Hampshire, delivered this unsettling news during a Coastal Perspectives lecture on the Avery Point campus of the University of Connecticut that coincided with the publication of a study in the new edition of "Frontiers in Ecology," a scientific journal. . . The research on the study was the first of its kind. Scientists, historians, ecologists, and mathematicians all joined forces to calculate the first-ever historical estimate of cod levels. The group used old schooner logbooks and catch records, in coordination with a new mathematical formula to reach their results.
