Why do people always think that "Man" is not part of "nature"? Other then the sole, is he, and his ways not part of nature too? Just because we are at the top of the "intelligence list", that should not in my opinion, exclude man as part of "nature".

Many times we dismiss the cruel reasons for doing something as; its "nature's way"! Yet when man does things, why it is always considered to be "against" nature's way? In the end, "Natures" always wins anyway, so are we not just part of nature's big scheme of things?

So one could certainly say that what man (the specie) does is all part of how "nature" is working and playing itself out. You know, it's kind of like the seagulls that come in eat up the locus swarms at some point in time. So just maybe, in the big picture of things ("nature"), man was always meant to use the oceans for his farming fields but just hasn't gotten to that point in time yet.

The world's population is certainly not declining, and people will continue to need more food to eat! So to me, fish farming of our oceans seems to be the most logical direction that man will go to next, especially when you take into consideration that the oceans cover over 70% of the earth; and the Pacific Ocean covers 38 % of that. Most of the oceans would not be to useful for other types of "farming" because; 1) Overall oceans are not very biologically productive as they are too cold and dark (i.e. poor temperature and light availability) for the rearing of crops; 2) Species diversity is much lower than that of what is on land, and there is less habitat diversity/variability for use by other species.

So why not use them (the oceans) for the best production of food that they can be used for…..i.e. FISH?


Cowlitzfisherman