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Thread #128834   Message #2893793
Posted By: Gurney
24-Apr-10 - 11:00 PM
Thread Name: BS: Sad day in Maine: last sardine plant in US
Subject: RE: BS: Sad day in Maine: last sardine plant
Tanglewood, prawn trawlers may be the death of the oceans. They use very fine-mesh nets, and everything they catch dies. Baby fish, weed, sponges, everything. They leave a desert behind them, with nothing to effect a recovery. Ask eastern Australians.
I've been told that British waters are now trawled with EU-approved nets, finer than the British-approved ones. Is this true?