I would love to see all commercial fishing banned as well for something like 10 years. Unfortunately there are other countries that would not respect the ban and even if not countries, individuals would ignore it as it would create a black market.

I still think the idea should be discussed and maybe g20 nations come up with some agreements.

Hopefully things like lab grown fish improve and maybe we can move people away from the real thing.

I keep telling my kids they are lucky anytime we get the treat of having some fish as in their future it may not be something available to the common person.

Lab grown fish are one thing, but simple fish farms already work really well, the issues are that the fish don't eat a natural diet and are sicker and less healthy to eat. Maybe that's an easier problem to solve than growing fish meat in a lab.

Likely we could use both methods and see what works best. I’m not sure how well fish farms scale up but imagine lab grown meats will scale up.

Farmed fish are fed pellets made of wild caught fish though.

That depends on the species. Farmed catfish eat mostly soybeans and corn (maize).

> eat mostly soybeans and corn (maize)

It still means deforestation, biodiversity loss, soil degradation, poisoning the ecosystem with pesti/herbicides and fertilizers on land (with the associated runoff into the waterways) and a lot of organic waste on the water (each salmon farm in scotland produces as much organic waste equivalent to a town of between 10 and 20,000 people each year).

I'm unclear why you'd stop at commercial fishing . Just ban all fishing and all fish consumption. The premise that your children could one day eat fish is the problem

The us has a large surplus of Asian carp. It’d be beneficial for the ecosystem if this invasive species became popular to eat to encourage more fishing of it.

Not all commercial fishing is bad.

Is recreational fishing that big of an impact?

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Worse idea: doing absolutely nothing to change our course of action until our decisions no longer matter because ecosystems have collapsed and hundreds of million of people are dying. That's how you get The Jackpot.

We have to do something. This is something. Therefore, we have to do this.

Trying to solve complex problems with simple improvised solutions is the definition of populism, and is normally worse than doing nothing.

Hunting ocean fish to extinction will have the same effect.

So, we may as well save the fish.

And Farming. And rent. And student debt. And Janice.

No, we should not ban farming or forgive student debt.

You could not simply cancel it. You would also have to sail around sinking the scofflaw fleet, which might cause tensions with other countries.

1) International waters.

2) I paid more than I’d like so the US could buy the biggest guns.