NewScientist (7 January 2017) reports on the findings of Brandi McKuin of UC-Merced regarding sustainable fishing:
Source: DiveBuzz
By combing through papers and catch databases, Brandi McKuin at the University of California, Merced, and her team found that tuna vessels using more sustainable methods such as pole and line fishing consume about three to four times as much fuel to land the same catch as boats that use a large net.
The researchers also compared the climate impact of tuna with that of terrestrial sources of protein, like tofu, pork and beef. Sustainably caught tuna has a larger effect than any other protein considered, except beef, for which climate warming emissions are five times those for the same weight of tuna.
One of those findings you don’t expect to see – one expects good karma to work hand in hand with good karma, but no such luck here. I wonder if anyone is noising about the idea of requiring tuna fishing vessels to be sailing vessels?
