Why it's OK to kill dolphins!

[Leon Roskilly]

""We take a lot of flack about dolphins, but it's been shown they are attacking their own kind."

 

!!

 

see: http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=141529&command=displayContent&sourceNode=141513&contentPK=11456896&moduleName=InternalSearch&keyword=fishing&formname=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch

 

(Dolphins will attack porpoises when food is scarce)

 

Tight Lines - leon

[MorecambeBay]

So when there is a lack of fish in the water, they attack each other....so either way trawling is affecting Dolphin populations, whether they catch them in the nets or not. If they dont they will starve to death or kill each other anyway....

 

Sounds like more ammo to get it stopped the way i see it!!!

[gonefishing]

dolphins have been known to kill each other in "arguements" as well...however, this is a natural phenomenon...just like seals eating tonnes of fish...the strong survive and hopefully reproduce, refining the gene pool...unless a flipping great trawler comes along and wipes the whole lot out.

 

I don't see much of a problem of trawlers wiping out shoals of baitfish in a controlled manner, but why on earth a workboat should be 1-2 miles off chesil if fish stocks are so wonderful?

 

...i filled my net last week, there must be fish in the sea...we shouldnt stop until we cant fill out nets, then we will know there's not enough left.

[MorecambeBay]

gonefishing:

...i filled my net last week, there must be fish in the sea...we shouldnt stop until we cant fill out nets, then we will know there's not enough left.

So we should sit tight and wait for there to be nothing left??? :confused: :confused:

[gonefishingatwork]

i was paraphrasing what i interpret to be the attitudes of the fishing industry...

 

it seems they are quite happy to debunk the royal commissions survey as being out of date by saying their catches are still good, but then extracting that they are sustainable without actually surveying to see if they actually are. It seems the industry will fish until their nets are empty and that only then commercial pressures will be the ones that they have to respond to.

Ben Bradshaw seems to have completely sided with this approach, favouring the fishing industry's interest over that of the livestock persued.

[MorecambeBay]

Sorry yes, just read it again, makes more sense when you are awake!!! :cool:

[Leon Roskilly]

Let's hope that it's a real initiative and not just a publicity shot, soon forgotten.

 

http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=141529&command=displayContent&sourceNode=141513&contentPK=11472807&moduleName=InternalSearch&keyword=fishing&formname=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch://http://www.westernmorningnews.co.uk...=sid ebarsearch

 

Tight Lines - leon

[gonefishing]

lets hope...not holding my breath...and haven't heard of this in dorset.

[Cranfield]

Its strange how everyone gets excited when dolphins are killed by Commercial Fishermen, but what about the millions of tons of shark deliberately killed every year, just for their fins ? :confused:

[gonefishing]

thats a totally disgusting practice and if i ever find a resturant serving shark fin soup then i will leave without spending a penny.