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Gore's Message Loses Bite (Al Gore serves up endangered fish at daughter's party)
Daily Telegraph ^ | By Rebecca Keeble

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.

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To: bicyclerepair

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


61 posted on 07/19/2007 2:07:41 PM PDT by Dark Knight
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To: Dark Knight

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.


62 posted on 07/19/2007 2:16:15 PM PDT by johnthebaptistmoore
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To: Terrence DoGood

I still think this makes him an official basshole!


63 posted on 07/19/2007 4:34:28 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet (Indianhead Division: Second To None!)
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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?

Sounds about like the state of Orange Roughy, when I left the fish biz five years ago.

64 posted on 07/19/2007 4:44:21 PM PDT by ErnBatavia (...forward this to your 10 very best friends....)
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