到2048年，咱們還活著，那時(shí)我58歲。下一代已經(jīng)長(zhǎng)大，我的孩子，就會(huì)像我現(xiàn)在這么大。如果有人告訴你，2048年之前，大部分的魚(yú)會(huì)絕跡---這對(duì)你我來(lái)說(shuō)意味著什么？
別跟我說(shuō)-有糖醋鯉魚(yú)吃就沒(méi)事兒！你可以靜靜的go away了。因?yàn)槲液⒆訒?huì)想吃清蒸海魚(yú)的。
綠色和平組織 Green Peace 的調(diào)查報(bào)告我最近很感興趣。最近，很有意思，同時(shí)也毫不意外的發(fā)現(xiàn)，“綠色和平”的博客文章里，其中，英語(yǔ)博客找得到這篇關(guān)于中國(guó)沿海過(guò)度捕撈的文章，中文的卻找不到；另外，天津港8·12?；繁ㄊ录挠⑽陌婧椭形陌婢尤粌?nèi)容也差出十條街。會(huì)說(shuō)英語(yǔ)的同學(xué)可以盡情比較下我說(shuō)的這兩個(gè)鏈接。
http://www.greenpeace.org/eastasia/
http://www.greenpeace.org.cn/news/blog/
既然中文那邊沒(méi)有，我就練練手，翻譯以下這篇-過(guò)渡捕撈影響中國(guó)年吃魚(yú)的習(xí)俗-的文章。我喜歡看《舌尖上的中國(guó)》，最喜歡的部分，是其中的中國(guó)人取用有道，保護(hù)賴(lài)以生存的資源，留給后人繼續(xù)使用?？墒沁@不是代表了全部。我們民眾如果不起監(jiān)督作用，任由這種過(guò)度捕撈類(lèi)型的行為滋長(zhǎng)，其嚴(yán)重程度，將會(huì)超出想象！
Year in, year out, let there be fish
BlogpostbyYang Yi- 2016-02-06 at 19:47?Add comment
China’s rampant overfishing is threatening its most ancient traditions.
中國(guó)猖獗的過(guò)渡捕撈已經(jīng)威脅到了中國(guó)最古老的傳統(tǒng)習(xí)俗。
That might seem like a bizarre blog title.
這個(gè)博客標(biāo)題可能看起來(lái)很奇怪。
But to any Chinese speaker it would make perfect sense. The word for fish is a homonym (two words which sound the same, but have different meanings) for the word for surplus, implying wealth and abundance. Thus, the phrase ‘Year in year out, let there be surplus’ (年年有余) is embodied every Lunar New Year by the eating of fish, an important tradition for Chinese communities around the world.
但是對(duì)講中文的人來(lái)說(shuō)，這個(gè)標(biāo)題完全講得通。詞語(yǔ)“魚(yú)”和剩余的 “余”同音，意在比喻財(cái)富和富足。因此，“年年有魚(yú)”使得中國(guó)民眾保留著過(guò)年吃魚(yú)的重要習(xí)俗。
綠色和平支持者在臺(tái)灣用身體拼成的年年有魚(yú)的字樣。
But the chance homonym should come as a poignant reminder to us. In China and the world’s oceans right now, the once seeming surplus of fish is fast disappearing. Overfishing has led seas to be depleted and a recent report by UN even?predicted?that by 2048 most of the world’s fish species will be extinct.?
但是這個(gè)諧音應(yīng)對(duì)我們來(lái)說(shuō)，成為最尖銳的提醒。在中國(guó)和世界上的一些海洋地區(qū)，一些曾經(jīng)盛產(chǎn)魚(yú)的地方正在迅速消失。聯(lián)合國(guó)甚至在最近的報(bào)告中預(yù)測(cè)，過(guò)度捕撈將會(huì)使世界上大部分魚(yú)類(lèi)在2048年前絕跡。
Fishing communities pepper China’s long eastern and southern coastline. For generations they relied on and enjoyed the bounties of the sea. But these bounties were never inexhaustible. With the arrival of modern, commercial fishing in the 1970s, which uses massive nets to rake in everything the ship finds, stocks of fish have become worryingly depleted. As we move into 2016, the year of the monkey, forty years of unsustainable and under-regulated domestic fishing industry in China’s seas) have lead to an overexploited stock.
漁業(yè)社區(qū)不可或缺的促進(jìn)著中國(guó)漫長(zhǎng)的東部和南部海岸線的發(fā)展。世世代代的中國(guó)人依賴(lài)并享受著海洋的恩賜。但是這些恩賜從來(lái)不是無(wú)窮無(wú)盡的。隨著現(xiàn)代化，20世紀(jì)70年代的商業(yè)捕魚(yú)，使用巨大的漁網(wǎng)耙捕撈著漁船能發(fā)現(xiàn)的一切，積存的魚(yú)已在令人擔(dān)憂(yōu)的速度在耗盡。以至于2016的猴年新年時(shí)，中國(guó)海域缺乏監(jiān)管，不可持續(xù)發(fā)展的國(guó)內(nèi)漁業(yè)已經(jīng)導(dǎo)致了嚴(yán)重的過(guò)度捕撈。
Fishermen along China’s coast, like Ji Yuanpi, have seen the change firsthand. To them, the ancient idiom has lost its meaning. The symbolism of the lunar new year fish dinner a reminder of a once sustainable system, rather than a portend of surplus for generations to come.
像季元丕（音譯）一樣的中國(guó)捕魚(yú)人，親眼見(jiàn)證了海邊的變化。對(duì)他們這樣的人來(lái)說(shuō)，古語(yǔ)已經(jīng)失去了它的意義。新年晚餐的魚(yú)曾經(jīng)是一個(gè)對(duì)可持續(xù)的系統(tǒng)的提醒，而不再預(yù)示著世世代代都可以享受著盈余。
Overfishing in China’s seas has also seen companies exploring more distant waters in search for new areas of abundance. With a total of,194,240 motorized marine fishing vessels in operation, China is now the biggest fishing power in the world, almost 4 times larger than the ?EU, 6 larger than Japan and 11 times larger than Korea.
中國(guó)的海洋過(guò)度捕撈也從另外一個(gè)領(lǐng)域得以體現(xiàn)，那就是企業(yè)正在探索遙遠(yuǎn)海魚(yú)尋找豐富的資源。中國(guó)現(xiàn)擁有194240艘電動(dòng)操作的作業(yè)漁船，成為世界最大的捕魚(yú)力量，比歐盟大四倍，比日本大6倍，比韓國(guó)大11倍。
Moreover, last year a?Greenpeace investigation?found that this enormous fleet has been acting far from responsibly, and sometimes illegally.Lack of ?effective enforcement to protect endangered fish stocks is a major problem in the global fishing industry.
另外，綠色和平組織的調(diào)查在去年發(fā)現(xiàn)，大量漁船表現(xiàn)的非常不負(fù)責(zé)，甚至有時(shí)違法作業(yè)。沒(méi)有有效的法律監(jiān)管，去保護(hù)瀕危魚(yú)群，成為現(xiàn)今全球漁業(yè)的最棘手問(wèn)題。
中國(guó)的電動(dòng)漁船
Overfishing is a dangerous trend across the world. 63% of global fish stocks are now considered overfished. And yet fishing fleets continue to head blindly out to new waters in search of new stocks to plunder.
在世界各地，過(guò)度捕撈都是一個(gè)危險(xiǎn)的趨勢(shì)?，F(xiàn)在全球63%的魚(yú)類(lèi)資源被認(rèn)定位過(guò)度捕撈。然而，捕魚(yú)船隊(duì)依然浩浩蕩蕩的盲目尋找新的海域，掠奪更多的魚(yú)類(lèi)資源。
Across the world, this unsustainable approach to fishing is resulting in profound and possibly permanent damages in our ocean ecosystems. It is breaking the healthy balance of species, disrupting the food chain, and causing the rapid disappearance of top predator fishes.
這種不可持續(xù)的捕魚(yú)方式，正在對(duì)世界海洋生態(tài)系統(tǒng)造成深遠(yuǎn)的，甚至可能永久性的破壞。它打破了魚(yú)類(lèi)的種類(lèi)平衡，擾亂了是無(wú)聊，造成食物鏈頂端的捕食魚(yú)類(lèi)的迅速消失。
As Ji Yuanpi ?welcomes in the year of the monkey on the shores of the Beihai Sea, fishermen across the world also mourn for the damage that is being done to their once healthy and sustainable seas.
Sustainable engagement with the oceans is not just a thing of the past, however. With better-enforced regulations and conscientious consumption, sustainability could once again return to the seas, and the fish - surplus homonym could have its true meaning returned.
就在季元丕在北海沿岸喜慶的迎接猴年的同時(shí)，世界上的漁民們也在對(duì)曾經(jīng)健康，持續(xù)的海洋造成的損壞哀嘆。然而，更好的執(zhí)行規(guī)定，和理智消費(fèi)，那么可持續(xù)性就有可能還回大海。那么魚(yú)-余的諧音就會(huì)找回他原本的含義。
