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 ...
Restaurant reports it did not serve endangered fish. See Drudge.<<
I looked up the MSC.
http://www.msc.org/html/content_465.htm
It’s a charity for people that want to feel good about eating endangered species. The Gore spokesperson, and the restaurant were light on the details, that’s why they did not want to get too far into it. If the fish is caught in the wild, and endangered, you have no regard for endangered species.
Not much to argue about. It is exactly like carbon credit offsets.
DK
Remember the movie “The Freshman”? In that movie, there also was a club for people who also wanted to feel good about eating endangered species. It has a happy ending, and it’s a very funny movie.
I still think this makes him an official basshole!
Sounds about like the state of Orange Roughy, when I left the fish biz five years ago.
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