The BBC is reporting that the bluefin tuna fishery in the Mediterranean may soon be shut down. That would be a Good Thing™. For full details I recommend watching the Deep Crisis episode of Scientific American Frontiers with the adorable Alan Alda or listening to this episode of Science Friday. The gist of it is that Mediterranean fisherman are harvesting way too many tuna and unless we make a change, we're bound to do to tuna what we did to atlantic cod. You've heard of Cape Cod, right? Just try to find a cod there and you'll understand the consequences.

I've been mulling over an essay about wolves which fits in very nicely to this topic, but I think it's deserving of a much longer post so I'll hold my tongue until then. I will just say that to date we as humans have been very ignorant of our place in our ecosystem. Somehow we imagine that because we're intelligent, we're immune from changes we make to our environment. Sadly we've been grossly mistaken and unless we learn to treat our resources wisely and with respect, we may not have them much longer.