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The Technical Manager wrote:

> Amos Keppler wrote:
>
> >   WEEK 50 Dec 3rd to 9th 2001
> >
> >   OCEAN DEVOID OF LIFE
> >
> >   A recent report by Canadian scientists, published in the British
> > newspaper The Independent states that the global population of fish will
> > be cut in half by the year 2015. They say that if the world-community as
> > a whole doesn?t stop the non-sustainable fisheries, there are small
> > changes for coming generations to be fed by the ocean.
> >   - These aren?t exaggerations or wild guesses, a spokesman says.- We
> > were and are aware of the fact that such predictions haven?t come
> > through in the past, at least not for the year they were supposed to
> > come true. But the world?s food chambers, including the oceans having
> > been taxed ever harder, and we have seen the heavy signs of decline for
> > some time, of a system, a global eco-system being taxed way beyond
> > endurance. Hundreds of years of misuse and destruction are now visibly
> > catching up with us all. We have been very careful and conservative in
> > our estimates.
> >   The world?s food production has gone awry in the nineties, a few years
> > after Paul Erlich drastic predictions and the fisheries have been
> > dropping, increasingly with an average of 360 million kilos each year.
>
> Over half of all the fish (by mass not individual numbers) caught by
> British fishing fleets is thrown back into the sea dead because of
> bureaucratic EU legislation.
>

 Yeah. And so what?

 You're referring to the size of the fishnet, right? And that catching fish
below a particular size and age is illegal.

 Is it bad that the bureaucrats do at least one right thing?

 They should have done far more.

 Amos


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