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enenen,

"How would you like your car to be sloganised and vandalised like that.
They need to be fined and jailed. They will get no support from me."

What a stupid thing to write.

We are talking about companies with no concern for the environment or people, especially those that cannot help themselves as those in African countries, where their fishstocks have been destroyed so they cannot sustain themselves, so some resort to piracy.

Nown some smartie from Tasmania does a deal with no concern for our greater good.

I hope they cast their nets in North Korea or Russian or Chinese waters.

What would happen then, ... no beg your pardons but swift justice.



"From the Canberra times:

"Say hello to our fishing future. It's called Margiris.
If ever Australians needed convincing that the global appetite for fish is our problem too, this supertrawler is it.
Twice the size of the previous largest vessel ever to fish our Commonwealth waters, it measures 142 metres in length and weighs 9600 tonnes.
Its Dutch owners are changing its flag of registration from Lithuanian to Australian. By spring, it is scheduled to be roaming between the Tasman Sea and Western Australia in pursuit of 17,500 tonnes a year of small fish.



Tagged ... Greenpeace activists write on the side of the Margiris in the Atlantic off Mauritania. Photo: Greenpeace

But it's not simply the size of Margiris that brings home the issue of rising industrial pressure on fish stocks.
It's the stark story of seafood market forces.

Last March, in the Atlantic off Mauritania, Greenpeace activists wrote "plunder" on the side of the Margiris.
They are campaigning against European operators who are taking West Africa's fish, leaving locals catchless.

In Australia, the Margiris is set to catch the same sort of fish - jack mackerel, blue mackerel and redbait - and freeze them into blocks for export.
The destination of the catch?
"The large majority will go to West Africa for human consumption, as frozen whole fish," said Seafish Tasmania director Gerry Geen.
Australian fishers have long sought to exploit the country's so-called "small pelagics", which are prey for bigger fish such as tuna and marlin. Seafish Tasmania is partnering with ship owners Parlevliet & Van der Plas to do this on a scale previously unseen.
Alarms have been raised in other global fisheries about these mainly Europe-based small-pelagic hunters."