Hi tonyee, I am sorry I missed it but I am aware of the problem. I think it is worse in the USA where the bees are shipped thousands of miles on the back of big trucks to pollinate the crops across the continent. Here in the UK there have also been a number of collapsed hives which cannot be attributed to the veroa ? mite. Sadly, despite this catastrophe in the making, our glorious government has seriously underfunded the bee research program. Since this problem has come to light the gov trumpeted that they have increased research funding but they have only put it back to what it was before they cut it in the first place.
They do say, but I do not think it is true, that human life will collapse 6 years after the bees disappear.
Did you see 'The End of the Line'? it showed that although each individual fish species was showing decline, fish catches were increasing. Then they found out that the Chinese, in typical Communist tradition, were cooking the books. The clerks had to show that the Glorious Communist Fishing Boats were increasing their catches every year in accordance with the Leaders plan.
When they removed the Chinese figures, it was a very serious situation of declining catches. The program seem fixated on the Blue Fin Tuna which has been in decline for a number of years and have been the subject of many programs. One salient fact is that the big fishing boats have a net big enough to contain 12 Jumbo Jets inside. That is very big. These ships have electronic equipment to allow them to sail along, see a shoal on their screen and dump their net in to scoop them all up.
They mentioned the sustainable factory farmed fish which unfortunately require 4 kilos of food made from anchovies fished off the Chilean coast for every 1 kilo of salmon farmed.
Sadly they didn't mention the millions of tons of Krill that is being hoovered up from the Antarctic Ocean which should be left for the primary food source of whales, whale sharks, Penguins and a host of other animals.
Oh dear, what are we doing to our planet.