World of Fisheries
With an increasing percentage of fish going to the frozen and fresh markets, and the increasing requirement for high quality waste (secondary raw materials for by products), the attitude for the entire fishing industry is changing.
Although many problems related to seafood are much more complicated than some for those faced by agriculture, the fishing industry has been grossly negligent in its concern about quality control of raw materials.
The new industry means technology from harvest through handling, processing, holding and distribution to the final market. This sequence must be started by the fisherman.
The number of experts differing on the role that food from the main and freshwater bodies of the world should play in mankind futures staggers the imagination.
The complex physical and biological environments, the difference in food requirements between many developed and developing nations, and the political relationships between nations (particularly those on continental and island sea coats) greatly complicate predications of these food resources and the ability to chart a course of action.
The highly nutritious protein foods form the sea and inland fresh waters do have an important place in feeding people. This impact can be increased tremendously through both harvesting and aquaculture operations.
Like all modern developments based on technology, the solution involves major financial investments, enlightened management and wise application of the technology.
World of Fisheries
Monday, March 9, 2009
Monday, March 2, 2009
Overload of Information
Overload of Information
There is more information of every type available now than ever before. How often you ‘personally selected’ at home, and at work, for the chance of receiving a fabulous holiday – and some information?
Most of it is junk information – junk mail, e-mail and junk faxes that you file straight away in the waste paper bin – guess who personally selected you?
A computer, of course. They are great for sending out information: more computers are used for word processing than for any other task. Computers are amazingly fast at processing some types of data, in particular financial and numerical data once it has been converted into electronic digital signals.
There are even programs for filtering out, or redirecting, certain classes of e-mail, but computers cannot yet open the morning postbag, sift out the junk and bin it.
So history is repeating itself: the invention of the typewriter with its high output of thirty or forty words per minute did not lead us to employ fewer scribes to write letters and other documents.
Instead we employed more people to produce much more written work and now the word processor is having the same effect. The net result is more people with keyboards skill than ever before, and far more information on every conceivable subject, competing for our attention and often failing to get it.
It seems the computer that help us manage information by processing data after, far from solving our problems, actually create new problems by adding to the volume, variety and complexity of information available.
Nevertheless some organizations thrive in this new environment: they use computers and modern information systems to make better decisions more quickly, allowing them to respond faster to customer requirements, which is markets today brings significant competitive advantage.
Overload of Information
There is more information of every type available now than ever before. How often you ‘personally selected’ at home, and at work, for the chance of receiving a fabulous holiday – and some information?
Most of it is junk information – junk mail, e-mail and junk faxes that you file straight away in the waste paper bin – guess who personally selected you?
A computer, of course. They are great for sending out information: more computers are used for word processing than for any other task. Computers are amazingly fast at processing some types of data, in particular financial and numerical data once it has been converted into electronic digital signals.
There are even programs for filtering out, or redirecting, certain classes of e-mail, but computers cannot yet open the morning postbag, sift out the junk and bin it.
So history is repeating itself: the invention of the typewriter with its high output of thirty or forty words per minute did not lead us to employ fewer scribes to write letters and other documents.
Instead we employed more people to produce much more written work and now the word processor is having the same effect. The net result is more people with keyboards skill than ever before, and far more information on every conceivable subject, competing for our attention and often failing to get it.
It seems the computer that help us manage information by processing data after, far from solving our problems, actually create new problems by adding to the volume, variety and complexity of information available.
Nevertheless some organizations thrive in this new environment: they use computers and modern information systems to make better decisions more quickly, allowing them to respond faster to customer requirements, which is markets today brings significant competitive advantage.
Overload of Information
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