Since the Roman empire, the common carphas been the world’s major cultured foodfish, but due to recently reduced populationsof wild fish there are now many more (in theWashington DC area, farm-raised fish nowpredominate in shops).The rational assessment and valuationof things that have been historically considered ’free’, such as clean air, adequatewater, fish, and pollinators, has become amajor concern in ecology, as scarcities ofsuch things increase (Meyer and Turner,1992; Vitousek, 1994). It seems to behuman nature to unwittingly use up ordestroy our resources, unless they can bespecifically identified as worth saving, foreconomic reasons, or as ultimately beneficial to human life. Economic rationales suchas, "what is it good for?" may be disguisedas environmental, religious and aestheticvalues in many cultures.Thus, it is time to protect our native beneficial Apoidea through habitat conservation and sustainable agriculture, and to augment them with selected, managed pollinators that are best adapted to most efficientlypollinate the flowers of our crops.
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