Thanks for your interestāall of ALLFEDās published research is here. But what is not yet published is that it is looking like the ocean fertilization effect will not be as strong as we had originally estimated. However, there are ~10 billion tons of deeper water fish (200 to 1000 m down), though they would be expensive to harvest. We think producing seaweed would be low cost and feed many people.
There was this paper (not by ALLFED) saying fish catch would generally be lower in nuclear winter. However, the model does not take into account the fact that as medium and large fish are removed, there would be more small fish that people could catch (what I call, āfishing lower on the food chainā). We want to model this and the feasibility of converting fishing boats to catch the smaller fish.
Interesting. I was particularly curious about why you think the ocean fertilization effect will not be as strong as you had originally estimated, if you have readings to recommend there too.
I was too optimistic in the book Feeding Everyone No Matter What assuming that the fish production globally could be similar to that of current coastal upwelling areas. However, we did find that seaweed grows better in nuclear winter than in normal times.
Thanks for your interestāall of ALLFEDās published research is here. But what is not yet published is that it is looking like the ocean fertilization effect will not be as strong as we had originally estimated. However, there are ~10 billion tons of deeper water fish (200 to 1000 m down), though they would be expensive to harvest. We think producing seaweed would be low cost and feed many people.
Has this been published since then? Would love to read this :)
There was this paper (not by ALLFED) saying fish catch would generally be lower in nuclear winter. However, the model does not take into account the fact that as medium and large fish are removed, there would be more small fish that people could catch (what I call, āfishing lower on the food chainā). We want to model this and the feasibility of converting fishing boats to catch the smaller fish.
Interesting. I was particularly curious about why you think the ocean fertilization effect will not be as strong as you had originally estimated, if you have readings to recommend there too.
I was too optimistic in the book Feeding Everyone No Matter What assuming that the fish production globally could be similar to that of current coastal upwelling areas. However, we did find that seaweed grows better in nuclear winter than in normal times.