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Thread #128834   Message #2893706
Posted By: Tangledwood
24-Apr-10 - 07:48 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sad day in Maine: last sardine plant in US
Subject: RE: BS: Sad day in Maine: last sardine plant
"You cannot trust commercial fishermen to fish sustainably"

Especially the crporate fleet, and the government folks who enable their operation.


There's a TV documentary series running here about Scottish trawlers.
In the last episode we were taken on board a prawn trawler. The prawns were proving elusive but in the search tons of fish were being unintentionally caught. Under EU law because the vessel was a prawn trawler it was only allowed to take a certain quantity of fish. Once that was exceeded any additional fish had to be thrown back in, even though they were now dead.