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DalyMacca
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 Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:05 pm Post subject: THE NEXT BIG CHALLENGE |
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be aware
as of today a new fight is being thrust apon us (if you have seen the channel 10 news tonight melbourne you will know what i mean)
This one will get ugly >>>> Very ugly >>>>> and an enviromental group has hijacked television networks to push their case and as indicated right at the start TUNA ARE NEXT
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MullowayMaDDneSS
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:16 pm Post subject: |
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Gozz
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject: Re: THE NEXT BIG CHALLENGE |
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| DalyMacca wrote: |
be aware
as of today a new fight is being thrust apon us (if you have seen the channel 10 news tonight melbourne you will know what i mean)
This one will get ugly >>>> Very ugly >>>>> and an enviromental group has hijacked television networks to push their case and as indicated right at the start TUNA ARE NEXT |
I was dreading this. |
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Minx
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:21 pm Post subject: |
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He is referring to a new movie coming out which exposes what we have all known for years that some countries do not practice sustainable fishing.
Maybe it is the start of a campaign  |
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Vicbream
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Vicbream
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:35 pm Post subject: |
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| I didnt follow the mako thing all the way so i cant comment on that but this film seems to be directed at commercial fishing and sustainability which the tuna fishery probably is not with the quoters at the moment. Im not saying that this wont lead to pressure being put on recreational fisherman down the track but in my opinion this is a totally different fight to the makos and maybe a difference can be made before it comes to the point of a ban. Would a catch and realse fishery really be that bad what would you prefer to have a freezer full of tuna or your grand kids be able to take there kids out and catch a tuna???? |
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makomauler
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| Posted: Mon Feb 08, 2010 10:43 pm Post subject: |
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| these greenie groups dont care, they put recreational and commercial fishos in the same boat and all they want to do is sink it! |
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_REV_
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:43 am Post subject: |
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For my mind; Any method of unsustainable and illegal fishing should receive our full condemnation.
We already know our (Australia's) SBT quota has been reduced by 30% for this season.
It was announced before the mako shark ban:
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Posted: 23 Oct 2009 23:07
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Australia's Bluefin Allowance Slashed
By investigative reporter Suzanne Smith - analysis
Posted 4 hours 53 minutes ago - Updated 3 hours 34 minutes ago
Australian fisheries will have to cut their take of southern bluefin tuna by 30 per cent, according to a decision agreed on tonight.
Nations have agreed to a 20 per cent cut, but Australia will cut their take by 30 per cent (AAP: Kerstin Fritsches, file photo)
But the decision to cut the total allowable catch of the prized southern bluefin tuna by only 20 per cent will concern conservationists and trouble the world's best marine scientists.
The decision was made tonight at the crucial Commission for the Conservation of South Blue Fin Tuna meeting in South Korea.
The commission is made up of countries like Australia, Japan and Taiwan, who fish the prized stock. It decides the total allowable catch and it decides what each country can take each year.
Australia had pushed for a 50 per cent cut of the total allowable catch, but it is believed the motion was subject to significant opposition by other member countries.
It is believed New Zealand effectively lobbied to increase its quota and then sold its increase to Japan.
It is also believed that Japan increased its quota and was not penalised for overfishing the stock over a 20-year period.
Australia tried to do the right thing, but ended up taking the hard decision on its own, with a 30 per cent reduction in quota.
This type of quota horse trading coincides with the release of a scientific report presented to the meeting which revealed the spawning stock had sunk to 5 per cent of the original 1940s levels - a level in fisheries management terms that constitutes an emergency.
Species may not recover
The report is believed to recommend a significant cut in the quotas, otherwise the fish may not recover.
The Commission must reach a consensus and there is no guarantee the quotas will be maintained.
Illegal fishing is rife and many of the high seas areas of the Pacific are unpatrolled and unregulated.
The areas known as high seas are outside the exclusive economic zones.
Only last week, Greenpeace claimed they caught a Japanese registered vessel fishing illegally inside the exclusive economic zone of the Cook Islands.
The current state of the southern bluefin tuna is now worse than its northern hemisphere cousin, the northern bluefin tuna.
The European Union is considering whether to ban all trade and export in the northern bluefin tuna and whether to list it as a critically endangered species.
The southern bluefin tuna is Australia's main fishing export.
The cod did disappear in North America and Europe, decimating fishing communities.
The decisions of this meeting are crucial to the long-term future of the southern bluefin tuna.
All eyes will now be on Federal Environment Minister Peter Garrett, to see whether he lists the fish as an endangered species next April. |
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How that translates to the recreational catch is not yet known - I expect we should hear about this in the next month or so. |
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_REV_
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 12:48 am Post subject: |
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I'm fairly comfortable in the knowledge our fisheries around Australia are well managed and sustainable and Australia took a leading role in exposing Japan a few years ago in their under reporting of their SBT take and these type of actions should be supported by the recreational fishing community.
As per the illegal whale fishing in the southern oceans, The Sea Shepherd Foundation is to, next, take on the illegal fishing for Bluefin Tuna in the Northern Hemisphere.
Remember it is the illegal and unregulated fishing that causes many of the problems for some species and it should be stopped as a priority.
Some of the questions asked in this film are the very same questions we should ask everytime we purchase or consume fish:
Where did this fish come from?
How was this fish caught?
and so on.
As an example; who was upset at the Mako Shark ban?
Who still eats shark fin soup?
I can only suggest we all watch this film and take it all in and see what we can do to help.
http://www.endoftheline.com |
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Vicbream
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| Posted: Tue Feb 09, 2010 7:38 am Post subject: |
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| Where does the funding for the protection of our economic zones come from? |
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