Doryman

Met with Peter Tyedmers and his son last night and went out for Thai food down on barrington or near there. With two ten-year-olds at the table who have heard all our talk before, we did not get to go as deep as we might have, but we did get to a few places. Peter expounded on an aspect of something I talk about a lot, how we are cas ading down declining ecosystems. We use technology to boost production in the short term, but when the capacity of the technology is exhausted, it usually exhausts the supporting natural capital as well.
As Peter put it, the capture fisheries people
Come to us with problems and they want solutions. They don’t want to look at energy issues. Here we are, after 70 years, and the amount of fuel burned per ton of fish landed is still going up. We have the data from back in the 1930′s and 40′s and even with 30′s and 40′s boats and engines the amount of fuel use was lower. What’s happened? We’ve exhausted the resource. All the improvements haven’t improved anything.
What peter is saying is that They haven’t increased efficiancy wher it counts, in the fuel use per ton of fish landed ratio. Essentially we are getting less and it’s costing us more. What that leads to is disaster

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