Posted on 04/19/2006 5:44:22 PM PDT by SJackson
For some of these nations, these meager licensing fees contribute as much as 70 percent of their GDP. When greed and waste finally lead to the collapse of these fish, millions of people throughout the Pacific will sink even further into poverty.
Which is whose fault? Would they have been better off if no one had paid licensing fees to them and their GDP had been 30% of what it is now all along?
"I guess eating fish is "exploiting" them."
Why yes, it is... :
exploit verb |ik?sploit| [ trans. ] make full use of and derive benefit from (a resource)
And many of the worlds fisheries HAVE been over-exploited.
How much salt, pepper and tartar sauce do you have?
As a kid growing up in Milwaukee I remember going down to the lake front at night with my parents. It was a festive scene with lots of men woking in pairs with nets. They walked into the dark water and drug back lots of the shiney little smelt. My parents bought a bucket full from one of the men. We stayed up late cleaning fish. I loved em too. I liked smoked chub from Manitowoc a little better though.
I never eat farm raised seafood anymore
was warned a few years ago it is full of chemicals that are harmfull, much more than wild
most of the problem is from their feed
http://www.albany.edu/ihe/salmonstudy/pressrelease.html
How cool. What a vivid image. My brothers did the same thing with the nets. Somehow I got tricked into cleaning the smelt, too.....
Manitowoc!! Hardly ever see that name online. But never heard of chub. Is that like carp?
We will end up with sweat lagoons!!!!!
Pssst. By the way, go short on Star-Kist...
No, we'll just revert back to cannibalism like we did before...
Especially with a side of snail-darter sauce.
Doesn't Mother Nature usually handle this problem? Tsunami's, earthquakes, famines, wars, etc. It's not a pretty picture, but in the past, it seems to have kept things in balance. Perhaps with our new technologies, it may work some other way, which I have no inkling of, but it is sure to surface at the right moment, or there will be no discussing it at that time. That may be one good reason to support the space program. We may need to evacuate to another place at some time in the future or at least have a place for excess humanity to exist on. Just 'what iffing'.
Chub look like a bigger smelt, about a foot long, heads & tails on, came 4-6? in a box, wrapped in plastic, oily, smoked to a rich golden hue. Eat them right out of the box.
Last year while in Milwaukee I couldn't find a decent Friday night fish fry. Smoked chub weren't in the genral market places either.
What goes up, must come down!
Put a bacterium in a sterile petridish with Agar and watch it grow. Lacking any natural limits, it grows exponentially until its own waste, and the lack of clean nutrient causes a precipitous drop in population.
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