I thought that news might be of interest for the campaign on pirate-fishing: the French Navy has seized on 25 june 2004 a pirate fishing vessel named Apache (flag = Honduras) in the vicinity of the Kerguelen islands (Southern Ocean). The Apache (length 55 m) contained 60 tons of illegally-caught Patagonian toothfish (legine australe). The pirate fishers are now at La Reunion, and the captain of the Apache has been deferred to the French justice.
If you insist on eating wild animals, I can't stop you. But could you at least desist from describing how you catch, kill and gut that wild animal? It was horrifying to read.
Next you'll be describing how you behead monkeys because you happened to be hungry on one of your forest-preservation missions...
Posted by elena at July 19, 2004 4:24 AMHey crew, hope its all going good on the boat still. Here in inland South Oz it's about 12 degrees C @ the moment, so ya not missing much down this way of the world anyway.
Just wanted to say well done for pointing out that sustainable commercial fishing and responsible individual fishing (even of at risk species) isn't actually much of a problem - it's the 'get rich quick', strip-mining mentality of both legal and illegal fishers that is what wipes stocks, pops and entire species out.
I dare say some people will still get the "hypocrite" chant going, but then, they're the ones who arent gonna listen to ya just coz you're greenpeace anyway.
Anyway, have a good one, and feel free to keep telling us about the fish ya catching, cleaning and eating. Its good to hear other peeps are doing what i cant at the moment, and like the Tool song says "Life, feeds on Life, feeds on Life" etc.
Peace Out.
Elena - the vegetarian society site is here: http://www.vegsoc.org/
But this is Greenpeace, and I don't see why they should all pretend to be vegetarians. Although I would love to debate with Greenpeace staff who would happly tuck into a juicy steak, which is not organic - considering the environmental impacts of livestock farming esp. the factory farming industry.
Driving boats, which consume fossil fuels is relatively unavoidable but consuming meat from non organic and factory farms is not! So Elena - I'm with you on that one, but as for catching a relatively common fish on a line..... well that just shows how we CAN catch fish and be environmentally friendly... and what's so cruel about putting the fish to sleep with a whiff of alcohol? I could think of worse ways to kill a fish!
L.
Posted by Lizardfish at July 22, 2004 4:43 AMFor those of you in Oz, the Australian Marine Conservation Society has put out a great guide on how to eat fish sustainably in Australia.
Check it out at:
http://www.amcs.org.au/campaigns/fisheries_unhooked/sustainable_seafood_guide.html
The "first fish" story is fantastic. It illustrates the campaign message beautifully.
You'd think the realities of the 'trash and grab' mentality of illegal fishers would be more than enough to motivate the offended person to join a campaign to empower states and communities to prevent illegal fishing!
Posted by JB at July 22, 2004 2:40 PMnice catch
Posted by findi at July 30, 2004 3:54 PM