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Garpal Gumnut

Garpal Gumnut

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The eco-activist boat Steve Irwin is becalmed in Scotland, sued by Tuna company Fish and Fish.

From the UK Graduain.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2011/jul/31/eco-pirate-paul-watson-flagship

"Eco-pirate" Paul Watson is losing a race against time to recover his flagship boat, the Steve Irwin, which has been impounded in Shetland.

The world's most radical conservationist, Watson is being sued for $1.4m (£850,000) by a Maltese fishing company, Fish and Fish, one of Europe's leading tuna processors. The law suit against Watson's Sea Shepherd Conservation Society was filed last year after activists aboard the Steve Irwin freed 800 bluefin tuna from a pen in the Mediterranean.
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The head of Fish and Fish, Joe Caruana, seeks damages for loss of tuna off Libya, last year, by activists.

gg
 
GG,

From the wires a few days ago

 
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Actually they could use this opportunity to upgrade to a more enviromentally friendly boat, maybe solar and sail. That would be leading by example and could possibly lead to a resurgence in sail powered ships.
Wouldn't it be fabulous to see sail powered cruise ships filling Sydney harbour again, ah the romance of it. Maybe it could be followed by Qantas changing their 747 fleet for fixed wing gliders, taking off from Sydney heads.
I had better stop now, don't want to give Bob and Julia new ideas.:D
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
The eco-activist boat Steve Irwin is becalmed in Scotland, sued by Tuna company Fish and Fish.
The head of Fish and Fish, Joe Caruana, seeks damages for loss of tuna off Libya, last year, by activists.
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Ah, Schadenfreude. I love it. It is great to see these pampered bullying thugs get their comeuppance. :)
 
Wish Mr Watson could get more friendly with Mr Brown then he would know what it's like to cop it up the bum like the bloke whose fish he let go.
I would have shot him
 
Calliope said:
Ah, Schadenfreude. I love it. It is great to see these pampered bullying thugs get their comeuppance. :)
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because we should just let companies rape the seas and destory marine foodchains without any resistance or complaint at all!
 
disarray said:
because we should just let companies rape the seas and destory marine foodchains without any resistance or complaint at all!
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If you feel strongly about it, you should contribute to the salvage of the Sea Shepherd from dock. Mr.Watson is looking for another USD750,000 to get himself out of this little bother.

Then there is no telling when he will get in to trouble again. I'd hate to own a fish and chip shop on the Shetland Islands at the moment.

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ok thanks for that input gg. insightful as always. and don't feel you need to withhold your masterchef sushi skills from the rest of us, i've lived in japan for a few years so i can probably understand the little nuggets of wisdom you deign to impart. or maybe i can google it!
 
companies that use factory ships for start

Commercial fish processing ships can affect birds, whales, dolphins, turtles and sharks by their broad reach methods of catching fish.

Purse seine ships, with nets up to two kilometres in circumference, can encircle whole shoals of pelagic fish, such as mackerel, herring and tuna.

A major international scientific study released in November 2006 in the journal Science found that about one-third of all fishing stocks worldwide have collapsed (with a collapse being defined as a decline to less than 10% of their maximum observed abundance), and that if current trends continue all fish stocks worldwide will collapse within fifty years.

The FAO State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2004 report estimates that in 2003, of the main fish stocks or groups of resources for which assessment information is available, "approximately one-quarter were overexploited, depleted or recovering from depletion (16%, 7% and 1% respectively) and needed rebuilding.[3]

The threat of overfishing is not limited to the target species only. As trawlers resort to deeper and deeper waters to fill their nets, they have begun to threaten delicate deep-sea ecosystems and the fish that inhabit them, such as the coelacanth. In the May 15, 2003 issue of the journal Nature, it is estimated that 10% of large predatory fish remain compared to levels before commercial fishing.[5] Many fisheries experts, however, consider this claim to be exaggerated with respect to tuna populations.[6]

From 1950 (18 million tons) to 1969 (56 million tons) fishfood production grew by about 5% each year; from 1969 onward production has raised 8% annually.[7] It is expected that this demand will continue to rise, and MariCulture Systems estimated in 2002 that, by 2010, seafood production would have to increase by over 15.5 million tonnes to meet the desire of Earth's growing population.[1] This is likely to further aggravate the problem of overfishing, unless aquaculture technology expands to meet the needs of human population.

Overfishing has depleted fish populations to the point that large scale commercial fishing, on average around the world, is not economically viable without government assistance; EU law, however, prohibits subsidies to fleets of its member states.
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mmmmm orange roughy

The Australian orange roughy fishery was not discovered until the 1970s, but by 2008, the biomass was down to 10% of the unfished level.[9] It was the first commercially sought fish to appear on Australia's endangered species list because of overfishing
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but hey, out of sight, out of mind right?

as for malta, some mediterannean fish stocks are on the verge of extinction
 
disarray said:
but hey, out of sight, out of mind right?
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One could highlight the deforestation around the world too. Matter of fact one could highlight that every human being contributes to the situation by their very existence.

Locally, the crab and fish population has been decimated by reducing their habitat and greater consumption. We all could focus on sustainability and the current regulations regarding size, quantity, fishing times and sex may need further tightening.
 
disarray said:
because we should just let companies rape the seas and destory marine foodchains without any resistance or complaint at all!
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Ummmmmmmmm it was caged Tuna right? Not wild stock that they had grabbed? It was from a fish pen in the Meditteranean. Remember Western Kingfish Limited?? Grow fingerlings from spat and then into a sea cage for grow out phase then off to the fish and chip shop?? How much more eco friendly do you want????
 
Garpal Gumnut said:
No, it was wild that had been corralled, as far as I know.

They use big nets to herd them in to an area, then fatten them up.

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Right ..... so instead of these fingerling Tuna being eaten by predators and dying through natural attrition in the wild they caged them and grew them out to feed the humans?

OHHHHHHHHHHHH THE HUMANITYY OF IT ALL. :banghead:
 
trainspotter said:
Right ..... so instead of these fingerling Tuna being eaten by predators and dying through natural attrition in the wild they caged them and grew them out to feed the humans?

OHHHHHHHHHHHH THE HUMANITYY OF IT ALL. :banghead:
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Sorry I cannot say they were fingerlings,

Joe Caruana doesn't let guests anyway close to Libya.

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Wysiwyg said:
We all could focus on sustainability and the current regulations regarding size, quantity, fishing times and sex may need further tightening.
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yep. sustainability should always be a major consideration in decision making when it comes to natural resources.

Garpal Gumnut said:
Sex always needs tightening
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quoted for wisdom
 
I've been in Japan for many years now... getting tired of hearing Paul Watson called 'that Aussie Sea Shepherd guy'. Frankly I wish Sea Shepherd & the whalers would just sink each other one year.
 
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