Suggestion of the day (otherwise known as If Helen Ruled The World edict 127):

We should stop describing ocean fish populations as fish "stocks". They're communities of a living organism, not stacked up items in a pantry waiting for us to take them. Just the use of the word implies that they only have value if we take them, and we need to kick that habit. The natural world is not there only for us to extract/plunder/take/damage for short-term gain (and sometimes not even that).

#ocean #words

@helenczerski Stocks also makes it sound like they don't follow population dynamics, which might involve catastrophic collapse below a certain threshold and faster replenishment when kept at a certain level. Even from a self-interested perspective, it's good to describe things as they are.