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Politics : The Environmentalist Thread -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: pezz who wrote (3079)	1/24/2004 2:01:43 PM
From: maceng2	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 36918

Do you think they are gonna sacrifice people or wildlife? Man proposes, God disposes [People can make plans; God determines how things will turn out] It makes a lot of sense to me that we plan to live in a survivable environment. Arable land is used to raise food by whatever method. My concern is the sea forms 71% of the planets surface and has an ability to generate huge amounts of food. Unfortunately there has been a trend to over fish it for hundreds of years, and now most of our inshore sea areas are almost sterile wastelands devoid of fish and other sea living organisms. Over fishing is a big problem, but one that could be fixed by appropriate funding and resources. My view is a countries fishing grounds are as important as it's oil reserves / energy supply. The future will prove this imho. Yes the math tells us the human race is going to have some big challenges. We still got to make the best plans, execute them as best we can, God takes care of the rest. Subject 54570 ========================================================= Fish poaching suspects seized January 24, 2004 - 12:05PM theage.com.au A navy boarding party rappelled down ropes from a helicopter to seize a suspected illegal fishing boat in treacherous Antarctic seas, the federal government said. The boat, Maya V, was apprehended late Friday for suspected poaching within Australia's economic zone around the remote Heard and McDonald Islands, more than 4,000 km south-west of Perth. "Our frigate HMAS Warramunga and her sailors on patrol in Australia's southern oceans battled extremely bad weather and high seas to intercept and board the Maya V," Defence Minister Robert Hill said in a statement. "It is a credit to their skill and professionalism that they were able to overcome dangerous conditions to successfully board the vessel." The frigate first made contact with the Maya V on Thursday but the sailors abandoned an attempted boarding because of worsening weather. The Maya V was issued with a legal direction to proceed to Fremantle. When weather permitted late Friday, the navy took control of the Maya V after sailors fast-roped to its deck from Warramunga's Seahawk helicopter. The Maya V has a navy steaming party aboard and is being escorted by the Warramunga to Fremantle where it is expected in early February. The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) also has officers on board and will investigate the vessel and its suspected illegal catch further once it reaches Australia. "This joint (Australian) Defence Force-AFMA apprehension marks another blow to illegal fishers and proves once again that Australia has the capability to act decisively in all sorts of locations and conditions to protect our fisheries resources and territorial waters," Fisheries Minister Ian Macdonald said. The government announced last month it would lease an ice-strengthened ship, armed with a .50 calibre deck-mounted machine gun, to patrol Australia's remote fisheries, where the prized Patagonian toothfish is under threat from poachers.