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Amos Keppler wrote:

> The Technical Manager wrote:
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> > Amos Keppler wrote:
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> > >   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.
> >
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>  Yeah. And so what?
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>  You're referring to the size of the fishnet, right? And that catching fish
> below a particular size and age is illegal.

No I am referring to fish that have been pulled out of the water and that
selling fish below a particular size is illegal. Thats why there is no other
choice than to throw them back in dead.

>  Is it bad that the bureaucrats do at least one right thing?
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>  They should have done far more.

They fail to understand how fishing really works. Foreign fishing boats have
full access to British waters and take far more fish than British fishing boats
do.

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