Comments on: Fish Fight!

By: Jim Thomerson

Jim Thomerson — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 17:03:58 +0000

I haven’t particularly followed the dolphin killing controversy. Why don’t the dolphins just jump over the float line and escape? I saw a program on TV about catching tuna for farming. I didn’t see much if anything about dolphins, as the program concentrated on divers herding sharks out through holes in the net, then patching the holes.

By: noel

noel — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 12:10:29 +0000

Have you ever seen dolphins drowning in nets? Condoning cruelty is not a good solution to the ecological problem.

By: Notagod

Notagod — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 11:15:17 +0000

At some point we will have no choice but to limit human population. I think it would be best to do that sooner rather than later.

By: Christie

Christie — Fri, 06 Mar 2009 08:50:16 +0000

You know, this brings up an interesting question in general:

As we seek to conserve more and more species, at some point we will have to make choices. Two species will compete for resources, or one species will be prey to another – how do we make decisions about which species are more worthy of conservation?

For example, just off the top of my head, we strive hard to conserve all kinds of marine mammals. But orcas, now, due to the loss of other prey species, have been known to feed on sea otters, decimating their populations. By protecting orcas, we might directly be killing sea otters, which has a whole host of environmental implications. The obvious answer would be to bring back the orcas’ other food species, but this is proving difficult. In the meantime, are we going to be able to conserve both species?