Re: Jap bastards!


"eugene" <eugene@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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emptying huge stretches of natural feeding grounds. This means the whales
have to go to more extreme areas of the ocean and the journeys involved are
mammoth. Add to this the associated problems of global warming. I didn't
see all of the program but what I did see hugely increased my respect and
admiration for these wonderful creatures (some of which live to be over 100
years old), and then when I saw the recent news bulletins about this
attempted further attack on them, by "some" Japanese.............well, my
blood boiled!

*When I was a kid fishing off Bangor habour I could bring home as many fish
as I wanted each day, catching one now is an event and they're noticeably
smaller too.

Anyone who's ever kept fish know how easily they can be stressed especially
tropical. When I first tried a roll in my kayak at Ballywalter habour I
popped straight up because I could've sworn some machinery was about to run
me over. In fact it was a prawn boat a few miles out dragging it's gear
(which trawl the ocean bottom) which consists of chains and large iron doors
acting as weights and keep the mouth of the net wide open, it's hard to
believe how sound carries through the sea till you hear it yourself. How
much it would affect hardy seafish is probably debatable but it certainly
can't be good.

Add to that the amount of lost gear left at the bottom which gets caught
before each skipper who decides to use a route learns the safe way around
and it matters little how many have come before because they're still in
competition and don't normally share their maps.

The prawn boats catch anything else they come across since their nets have
small gaps (for want of a better word) dogfish, cats, sharks even octopus
and squid just to name a few. By law they have to have an escape route for
fish but it's not foolproof and the size of the gaps are strictly monitored
to ensure younger prawns escape. The fishing boats are under the same
restrictions, including an overall quota system which was a major problem
until Europe took over overall control, Foreigners not having the same
regulations would often poach unfairly in British and Irish waters.

The reason those restrictions are needed is simply because the situation is
that bad, we are raping the waters instead of farming them. The fishermen of
course dispute the figures but like farmers it's their life and their job is
shitty and dangerous and spend days living onboard, many alone.

I wonder who is destroying the eco-system more, us or the Japanese?

But whales are a cuddly icon and don't contribute to our economy so it's
easier to get upset at the tv at these evil foreigners than pay more at the
chip shop for farmed fish, which is the way it should be done.

What a wonderful species we are that gets scared at the movie Alien and see
the mother alien as evil when she's simply trying to protect her babies
whereas we do far worse and with less respect and for what?

Profit and a concern for prices at the till but to disregard your own
peoples part in the destruction of this planet and blame another for another
form of it is simply racism, nothing more.


Duck


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