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Not a site I usually read, but this article came up in my alerts and is a reminder of what goes on out there:

 

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/oceans/good-riddance-bad-fishing-20130314

 

These vessels are enormous!

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Not a site I usually read, but this article came up in my alerts and is a reminder of what goes on out there:

 

http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/blog/oceans/good-riddance-bad-fishing-20130314

 

These vessels are enormous!

Commercial fishing on this scale is big buisness some people get very rich out this way of fishing as it says in some cases it destroys the fisheries for local people the fact of matter is where trawling has taken place it is only a matter of time before its impact on stocks will raise its ugly head.

Boats over the years have got bigger and better at catching fish more horsepower better technoligy its big money not a way of life anymore.

Its there for everybody to see the eastcosst of the uk is prime example 70ss and 800ss you could litterally walk on cod off the east overfishing and hugh discards over those booms year paid a very high price on the stocks cod are still here but compaired to the levels of 70ss and 80ss are way down on what they used to be they blamed climate change ,seals and yes would you believe even anglers anything to take the heat off .

 

 

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This is a very interesting topic and there are two very valid view points here.

 

Do we want a relatively inefficient fishing industry that supplies a living for large numbers of indigenous coastal fishermen and has a relatively high cost to police and manage.

 

Alternatively we sacrifice the high employment involved in coastal fishing communities and have a much smaller number of super size and technologically advanced vessels which can be monitored by satelites , carry inspectors on board etc which are much cheaper to manage.

 

We could say that British policy is heading towards option 2 . On a global scale the ricer nations are undoubtedly exploiting the resources of smaller nations, something that colonial powers have always done.

 

This is a debate about economics over social sustainability, and wherever we have the latter it usually has to rely on subsidy to survive, like French Agriculture

 

Many of us want to turn the clocks back, but we cannot stop progress. What we have to do is limit the growth of the world's population which is the biggest danger to the world's natural resources.

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Not wanted in Oz

 

http://www.themercury.com.au/article/2013/03/02/373540_tasmania-news.html

 

 

THE super trawler Abel Tasman is to leave Australian waters without catching a fish.

 

After a massive community and political campaign against the ship, its Tasmanian operators have confirmed it has been sold, its Australian registration abandoned and the vessel is to depart within days.

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