When Al was asked what the Chilean sea bass tasted like, he said,
"Something between porpoise and coelecanth - a bit greasy like narwhale - but not as greasy as a California condor..."
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 ...
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?
Yeah, I think he gave to the polar bear fund to offset his meal. ;^)
“Restaurant reports it did not serve endangered fish.”
It depends on what the meaning of serve is.
It was probably Crappie with hotdog chile poured over it.
If Al Gore hadn't killed those Chilean Sea Bass, they could be swimming free in the oceans of the world right now!!
Another carbon offset snow job for Al Gore.
It’s okay because he bought some carnivore credits from vegans who got them by buying ‘crocs’ instead of leather shoes.
Not morally.
Maybe. I meant as far as the MSM is concerned.
Algore, the gift that keeps on giving!
too funny.
too funny.
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