If the Restaurant did admit serving it, they would be in a world of trouble.
Posted on 07/19/2007 10:13:01 AM PDT by Terrence DoGood
ONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore's green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter's wedding in Beverly Hills.
Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world's most threatened fish species.
Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.
The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching of this species.
(Excerpt) Read more at news.com.au ...
Did they have a side dish of spotted owl?
Restaurant reports it did not serve endangered fish. See Drudge.
owlbore is an asshole
The man is so transparent only the zealots will defend the goon.
I agree....this is hilarious.
Will Gore and his daughter be jailed for violating
the Endangered Species Act? (I can dream, can’t I?)
The restaurant said the fish came from a sanctioned sea bass harvesting group so it looks like they’ve taken the sting out of the accusation.
I don't like mine poached, I prefer sauteed in olive oil and garlic......
The Telegraph has already posted an update (with clarification from the restaurant):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2007/07/19/eagore119.xml
Is that a pun?
Everybody, pile into your limos and let’s go panda hunting.
I was casting about for one.........
I'm sure the once Al's little girl made up her mind she was going to have Chilean Sea Bass at her reception, all Al could do was comply.
What, no hook-lipped rhinos or African elephants on this trip?
Well you hooked me!
His excuse was “The fish had a fever”.
Hypocrisy seems to go right over the heads of leftsts and the MSM, but Al Ogre is still a douche.
Is this the same daughter who picked up her Prius-driving brother from jail in a real motor vehicle? If so, perhaps we've found the white sheep of the family!
Kind of like a carbon credit that swims.
Wonder if Gore has a piece of the service contract that generates this paper trail too?
It's all a plot for Millionaire Marxists like Gore and Company to rape the proletariat.
If the Restaurant did admit serving it, they would be in a world of trouble.
LOL.
Who was the lucky groom that married into such wealth?
Oh it's still an endangered species, but ones served to Gore and family had the proper "papers" as being from a sustainable source.You're not going to catch the algores eating UNDOCUMENTED fish.
That was only the first course. The main course was oven-roasted Komodo Dragon with a Baby Harp Seal blubber reduction sauce.
Don’t mess with Hillary and her spin machine.
Dr. Evil: You know, I have one simple request. And that is to have sharks with frickin’ laser beams attached to their heads! Now evidently my cycloptic colleague informs me that that cannot be done. Ah, would you remind me what I pay you people for, honestly? Throw me a bone here! What do we have?
Number Two: Sea Bass.
Dr. Evil: [pause] Riiiight.
Number Two: They’re mutated sea bass.
Dr. Evil: Are they ill tempered?
Number Two: Absolutely.
Dr. Evil: Oh well, that’s a start.
It could have been worse. They could have served spotted owl.
And gopher tortise soup
Not what the article says! The restaurant said “the restaurant later confirmed, they had come from one of the world’s few well-managed, sustainable populations of toothfish, and caught and documented in compliance with Marine Stewardship Council regulations.”
I guess it is like buying “carbon credits”.
He is still an ass.
Sorry, but I ain’t buyin’ this one. I haven’t seen anyone getting their panties in a wad over the various cooking shows/networks that cook up these fish.
You see, he’s just one person. What he does can’t make a difference. It’s the rest of us criminals who are causing the earth to poof. What a nut case.
I heard the Poached Sea Turtle Eggs were a winner....
Naw, the spotted owls were stacked in the bathrooms because, well ya know, one sheet just isn’t enough.
great one
Oh, OK, well there’s a tracking record for that stuff, let’s find out if it truly is a product of some off-the-wall “sea bass harvesting group”, BWAHAHAHA. I was just checking for our local “Whooping crane harvesting group” because we’re having a special get-together. Everyone have your Non-Blood Diamond certificates handy (same category)??
And another thing, why can’t these people just ever serve some COMMON species in the first place? Oh no, they must always empress others, “lookie here, this is really RARE stuff, aren’t you impressed?”.
But seriously, folks, we must understand that all the sacrifices must come from we, the Little People, so that our elite rulers will have total access to everything their (evil) little hearts desire
ahem, meant to say, one sheet just isn’t enough for those pesky occasions............
Are there now “caviar credits”?
My take: I won’t serve it in my restaurant, and I’m not usually on the side of today’s “environmentalists”. The fish is slow to mature, incapable of breeding until they reach 10 to 12 years in age. As stocks have dwindled, younger and younger specimens are taken to the point that fish are taken before they have a chance to reproduce. In essence, we have gotten to the point of eating the seed corn. Where will next years crop come from?
Because of high demand, the price is high (wholesale fillet $11 / pound vs $5-6 for flounder or salmon). This has led to illegal fishing, which is estimated at 4 to 5 times the legal catch. Serving this to your guests helps sustain the demand, which keeps the price up, which promotes the illegal fishing which is likely to wipe out this delicious fish.
In conclusion, a responsible conservationist would not serve this at a dinner.
Now, if one is inclined to let this hypocrite off the hook, isn’t the rehearsal dinner usually hosted by the grooms parents, hence Gore probably didn’t choose the menu?
All your points are valid but the fact these fish were harvested legally is enough to let Gore off the hook. Hence, no controversy.
The fact that a well connected group can legally kill them doesn't make them any less endangered.
Except that when a species is truly endangered you should just leave it alone entirely. I’m sure Treegore sold the sanctioning body some carbon credits so they could feel good about themselves while further diminishing the number of ENDANGERD fish.
I gues you could take that up with the regulators. Gore is off the hook though (no pun intended).
I think we can all agree, this is clearly a Clinton hit piece. I wonder how much iced tea Gore had at this event and if he had to leave before illegal donations were made.
By the way, is there a controlling legal authority for Sea Bass?
"Something between porpoise and coelecanth - a bit greasy like narwhale - but not as greasy as a California condor..."
LOL!
Sort of like...endangered animal offsets?
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