LkyLindy
03-31-2003, 11:52 PM
I just finished Stve Sloans book Ocean Bankruptcy
It's a terrific informational book.but very disheartening.According to Steve the various government agencys charged with protecting the world wide fishing stocks(NoAA NMFS,ICCAT etc)are basically fronts for special interest groups and could care less about the science and truth about the fish stocks being slaughtered and not replenishing.It deals mostly with long lining and billfish but easily extrapolates to every species.Sad to say'unless drastic steps are taken ,we fishermen of the world are Screwed.Non of the treatys with foreign nations have any real teeth and countries like Japan and Spain skirt the rules day in and out.Steve makes some good proposals to ameliorate the situation but The chance of implementation is probably nil.It's probably just a matter of time until we fishermenare just reduced to plain boaters, and the only fish we see will be in a museum-It's a sad situation:!: :!: :!:
It's a terrific informational book.but very disheartening.According to Steve the various government agencys charged with protecting the world wide fishing stocks(NoAA NMFS,ICCAT etc)are basically fronts for special interest groups and could care less about the science and truth about the fish stocks being slaughtered and not replenishing.It deals mostly with long lining and billfish but easily extrapolates to every species.Sad to say'unless drastic steps are taken ,we fishermen of the world are Screwed.Non of the treatys with foreign nations have any real teeth and countries like Japan and Spain skirt the rules day in and out.Steve makes some good proposals to ameliorate the situation but The chance of implementation is probably nil.It's probably just a matter of time until we fishermenare just reduced to plain boaters, and the only fish we see will be in a museum-It's a sad situation:!: :!: :!: