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Thread ID: 127018	2012-09-30 02:23:00	Only 100 Cod Left In The North Sea!!!	SurferJoe46 (51)	PC World Chat

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1304088	2012-09-30 02:23:00	The Daily Telegraph recently ran the headline: "Just 100 cod left in the North Sea" . It sounded fishy . Trawlermen were furious . "It just makes my blood boil - 100 cod in the North Sea?" fumes Brian Buchan, who's been fishing in the North Sea for more than 30 years . "More like 100 million cod in the North Sea . " It's not a trivial issue . Over-exploitation and conflicts over fisheries cause major problems worldwide . :eek: The story was picked up by other media, including the Atlantic Wire and Canada's Globe and Mail, but it started in the The Sunday Times which reported there were "100 adult cod in North Sea" . A different claim - but still wildly wrong . The Sunday Times chose to class an adult cod as aged over 13 . But that's not merely an adult cod . It's an ancient cod . All this raises a question . Given what we know about when cod mature, just how many "adult" cod are there in the North Sea? Remember, the Sunday Times said there are just 100 . The right answer? Well, using the same dataset, the right answer appears to be rather more than 100 - more near to 21 million, in fact . LINK::: . bbc . co . uk/news/magazine-19755695" target="_blank">www . bbc . co . uk	SurferJoe46 (51)
1304089	2012-09-30 02:49:00	Sounds like a lot o' fish, but once there would have been shiploads. Too many had a fishy on a little dishy, one day there'll be no more, when the boat comes in.	KarameaDave (15222)
1304090	2012-09-30 03:04:00	Sounds like codswallop :), but what about the herrings? Even just after the war when we lived at Great Yarmouth for 12 months or so, there were still what seemed like considerable numbers of herring drifters, and activity on the wharves...but nothing like in these photos news.bbc.co.uk	Terry Porritt (14)
1304091	2012-09-30 03:10:00	100 left? Rubbish! It'll be months yet before the numbers sink that low, they are getting harder to catch now that not only are there fewer of 'em, the remaining ones come from years of removing the easily caught little rascals so are all masters of evasion.	R2x1 (4628)
1304092	2012-09-30 05:49:00	100 left? Rubbish! It'll be months yet before the numbers sink that low, they are getting harder to catch now that not only are there fewer of 'em, the remaining ones come from years of removing the easily caught little rascals so are all masters of evasion. "masters of evasion"? Are you talking about fish or MP,s ? PJ	Poppa John (284)
1304093	2012-09-30 07:12:00	MP stands for Master of Prevarication, dunnit?	KarameaDave (15222)
1304094	2012-09-30 07:27:00	All the above :D	R2x1 (4628)
1304095	2012-09-30 07:49:00	Pretty good finding those 100 fishes in 750,000 square kilometres of water. :stare:	Jen (38)
1304096	2012-09-30 08:30:00	100 left? Rubbish! It'll be months yet before the numbers sink that low, they are getting harder to catch now that not only are there fewer of 'em Nah. It's that just with the polar ice caps melting, there's more of the wet stuff, and the same amount of cod have more of it to swim in. It's all an inconvenient load of codswallop. :rolleyes:	WalOne (4202)
1304097	2012-09-30 22:01:00	They keep going at their current rate and there will only be 100 left soon	Agent_24 (57)
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