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Don’t tell that to your local sushi chef. Over the past three decades, the fish export trade has grown fourfold, to 30 million tons, and its value has increased ninefold, to $ 71 billion. The dietary attractiveness of seafood has stoked demanD、About 90% of the ocean’s big predators—like cod and tuna—have been fished out of existence. Increasingly, fish and shrimp farms are filling the shortfall. Though touted as a solution to over fishing, many of them have—along with rampant coastal development, climate change and pollution—devastated the reefs, mangroves and seagrass beds where many commercially valuable fish hatch.
Steven Murawski, chief scientist at the U. S. National Marine Fisheries Service, finds Worm’s headlining prediction far too pessimistiC、Industry experts are even more skeptical. "There’s now a global effort to reduce or eliminate fishing practices that aren’t sustainable," says industry analyst Howard Johnson. "With that increased awareness, these projections just aren’t realistiC、"
Perhaps. Still, the destructive fishing practices that have decimated tuna and cod have not declined worldwide, as Johnson suggests. Up to half the marine life caught by fishers is discarded, often dead, as by catch, and vibrant coral forests are still being stripped bare by dragnets. Worm argues that fisheries based on ecosystems stripped of their biological diversity are especially prone to collapse.At least 29% of fished species have already collapsed, according to the study, and the trend is accelerating.
So what’s a fish eater to do "Vote with your wallet," says Michael Sutton, who runs the MontereyBayAquarium’s Seafood Watch program inCaliforniA、Since 1999, the aquarium has handed out pocket guides listing sustainably harvested seafooD、The Marine StewardshipCouncil has partnered with corporations to similarly certify wild and farm-raised seafooD、Some 370 products in more than two dozen countries bear theBritish group’s "Fish Forever" label of approval. Wal-Mart and Red Lobster, among others, have made commitments to sell sustainably harvested seafooD、
But that’s just a spit in the ocean unless consumers in Japan, India,China andEurope join the chorus for change. "If everyone in the U. S. started eating sustainable seafood," says Worldwatch Institute senior researcherBrian Halweil, "it would be wonderful, but it wouldn’t address the global issues. We’re at the very beginning of this."
B．strong disapproval.
C．slight disapproval.
D．strong approval.
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
态度题。根据题目顺序定位至第三段，其中提到了几个对Worm的研究结论提出质疑的人：Steven Murawski和Howard Johnson。第四段首句的Perhaps表明作者对他们的看法有所保留，接下来第二句的the destructive fishing practices that have decimated tuna and cod have not declined worldwide，as Johnson suggests说明他并不是完全赞同这几个人的说法，但是也没有强烈表示反对，故C为答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>
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