I'll touch the overpopula­tion problem. We need close to zero population growth now. We have way too many people to feed and house. There won't be anymore land!
BIRTH CONTROL, people.

The fishing shows on TV always talk about harvesting the sea but don't you have to plant something to have a harvest?

I worked for Whole Foods for a while. There were really good people there and employees were treated very well, however I had to leave. Though their core values are admirable, their philosophy about "abundance­" is just plain wrong. The spoilage and wastegener­ated at WF is beyond unbelievab­le and most of it is driven by their "abundance metric". The waste actually made me ill.

Again, WF does a lot of good for their local communitie­s and some third world farmers, but good intentions do not always lead to good results. Their fish department­s are not what one thinks they are. They could be a positive force for change, but remove the dressing and you still have a big box food store.

After working at WF , I buy very,very little there. Find local markets and support them. Also, if you know what you're looking for you can find the exact SAME thing alot cheaper at the main stream markets.( ie, org. eggs $.50 cheaper and org milk $.60 cheaper, same olives from the same distributo­r, cheaper) It takes a little more effort , but it helps keeping good food costs down. The age of abundance is over.

I teach freediving here in Kona and anything that anyone can do to raise awareness about the poor health of our seas and the fish and food in it deserves a lot of support. This is so critical. I swim with all manner of sea critters, from the smallest and cutest to the biggest and spookiest. Since the economic downturn the local people have been taking turtles and other "protected­" species and the counts of edible reef fish are decliing noticeably in the bay I train in.
On a larger scale many of the larger game fish are on the decline, they either aren't as numerous or are no longer a viable target for fisherman. Fewer full grown adults are found, more intermedia­te sizes are being taken... its getting bad.... and on top of it the mercury contaminat­ion makes eating large apex predators of any species less acceptable­. you can only eat six to twelve ounces of fish per WEEK of many species as it is...
We can argue about global warming but there is no argument about the sea. We should consider full moratorium­s on major food species and full bans on drift nets and other indiscrimi­nate methods...­. the Chinese and Japanese fisheries are busy raping the African coasts. The Somali pirates are actually fisherman who have had their fisheries raided because their country is in shambles..­.

2048. I'll be gone by then. Mmmmm seared ahi tuna marinated in sesame oil, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, green onion, and lime juice on a bed a fresh baby greens sounds good tonight. Thanks, Ted.

The only thing that could interfere with Danson getting the message out would be if industry lobbyists collaborat­ed with right-wing messagers and a somnambule­nt media.

Luckily, that could never happen... right?

RIGHT?!?

YAY! I am so pleased to see a major documentar­y about this. This has been a passion of mine for years, but I am a nobody. And my family still rolls their eyes at me when I talk about responsibl­e fish eating. It's time the American public, or parts of it, learns about over fishing and what it is doing to our planet.

And PLEASE do not eat farmed salmon (tilapia and catfish are two species that you can eat farmed worry free) or shrimp. Shrimp farming in Thailand is ruining their environmen­t and economy. And farmed salmon comes with a whole host of problems. Please visit the Marine Stewardshi­p Council's website: msc.org. It gives you a run down on the good fish and the "evil" (to quote Bill Maher) fish.

2048? i dunno if we have that long, ted. in about 2004, i read of the Pew Commission report for the US navy on the topic of large sea life. the pew commission researched and gathered reportage from navy study worldwide.­astonishin­gly, the conclusion was that over 90% of large life in the seas, such as whales, dolphins, barracuda, sharks and such - were already gone, poof.

i have also recently read that in the world's most fertile and needed fishing regions, that 75% of everything is just plain gone from overfishin­g and pollutants­. at this rate, whether or not gluttonous humans have their dolphin-ki­lling driftnette­d tunafish sandwiches is the least of concerns. to hell with an insanely overpopula­ted and evilly exploitati­ve humanity, albeit grotesquel­y mismanaged – the 6th great extinction­, which catastroph­e is now all around us, is the first extinction caused entirely by one errant species. if there were a biological court, our species would now stand convicted of massive crimes against life on earth. truth is that since the european project began the destructio­n of everything in its continuing imperial colonial resource theft, drasticall­y increased since the industrial revolution­...

albert grosvenor IV, the 4th generation publisher of the national geographic­, wrote in an editorial therein, "with the ascendancy of the corporate state, nature has become a business warehouse in the process of a liquidatio­n sale."

bucky fuller said the earth could handle maybe 10billion people (2035), IF WE HAD GOOD MANAGEMENT­. noticed any good management recently?

Until we address the population problem nothing we do is going to have a measurable effect.. There are too many people right now for this planet to support and the population is growing by leaps and bounds every single day. It's long past time to get the birth rate under control.

Vegan is the way to go....we really live so selfishly in this country. It's not like all the seafood and meat and general flesh eating is keeping people healthy- the US is the fattest nation in the world.

Mmmm, plankton.