Fishing in The Matrix

In the film hit The Matrix, Agent Smith argues that humans are a plague of the planet:

You move to an area, and you multiply, and multiply, until every natural resource is consumed. The only way you can survive is to spread to another area. There is another organism on this planet that follows the same pattern. A virus.

While we as a species are trying to make amends with respect to air pollution and greenhouse gases, what is happening in the oceans is ill monitored and ill understood. Deep trawling may upset ecosystems that we know little or nothing about as 60 year old fish ends up on the dinner table. (The same Canadian study is referred to by the Discovery Channel and The Economist.)
I have been recommended a book by Charles Clover (but not read it yet) which analyses the many facets of the problem and points to New Zealand and Iceland as some of the few places attempting to take corrective action.
The problem is that it takes global agreement backed up by a solution for policing it before the situation can improve. We probably need a scheme similar to the central London traffic congestion charging adapted to the high seas: Something that defines a matrix superimposed on the ocean surface of the planet with a pricing structure for each cell.

Comments

[Gary]

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