We have grown to the point where we have the technology to destroy anything we want, but not create anything we want, or only destroy the specific things we want.

We can harvest from land animals, fish, and trees faster than ever before. The faster you do something, the more money there is to be made. That speed and money doesn't care about the fish you take that you don't need or the injuries to the ocean ecosystem. It cares about money.

We can place limits and regulations and then spend billions on sending teams of enforcement officers to make sure people are being compliant...

We could try to educate people and make them care fundamentally about the issues so the demand goes down, sales prices will go down, and less fish will eventually be taken...

Or we can find a way to build and use the technology (let's face it, we can pretty much build anything we set our minds/wallet to it) to take only what is needed and repopulate.

Ideally, we need to find a a way to only take those fish who are fully mature and already spit out a bunch of baby fishies. Without injuring other wildlife, reefs, etc.

If you think about it, not much as changed in the way people fish. The only thing that has changed is the size of the boats and size of the nets. There has to be a better way to do this where the industry is still alive, people can make their money, as we don't keep destroying huge portions of the ecosystem in one afternoon.

Thoughts?