This "Commercial Fishing Area" is now off-limits
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Council closes Arctic to fishing for now
February 5, 2009 - 1:21 pm
Federal fishery regulators today approved an unprecedented plan to ban U.S. commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean.
The Anchorage-based North Pacific Fishery Management Council spent two years developing the Arctic plan in response to climate change and the rapid retreat of sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas along Alaska’s northern coast.
Some scientists and fishing industry players say it’s conceivable that commercially valuable seafood species such as pollock or crab populations could expand in the Arctic, which could draw fishing fleets.
So far, no fishing of any major scale occurs in the Arctic, and the few surveys of fish stocks there don’t show large populations. Still, the council, meeting in Seattle this week, decided to write an Arctic Fishery Management Plan to control commercial fisheries should they develop.
February 5, 2009 - 1:21 pm
Federal fishery regulators today approved an unprecedented plan to ban U.S. commercial fishing in the Arctic Ocean.
The Anchorage-based North Pacific Fishery Management Council spent two years developing the Arctic plan in response to climate change and the rapid retreat of sea ice in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas along Alaska’s northern coast.
Some scientists and fishing industry players say it’s conceivable that commercially valuable seafood species such as pollock or crab populations could expand in the Arctic, which could draw fishing fleets.
So far, no fishing of any major scale occurs in the Arctic, and the few surveys of fish stocks there don’t show large populations. Still, the council, meeting in Seattle this week, decided to write an Arctic Fishery Management Plan to control commercial fisheries should they develop.
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So - there aren't a lot of fish there, and no 'real' commerical fishing - but if there ever ARE fish they're off limits as a food source. And it took these Gaiaists TWO YEARS to come up with this. Wow. Liberals are smart, productive, AND proactive. I'm totally impressed.
(Oh, and the "rapid retreat of sea ice" reversed last year - it's now rapidly advancing after the coldest Arctic winter in 30 years.)
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And on the opposite end of the Earth...
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Ships collide in Antarctic whaling clash
Associated Press Writer – 1 hr 4 mins ago AP
SYDNEY – A boat carrying a group of radical anti-whaling activists collided with a Japanese whaling vessel in the Antarctic Ocean on Friday in a clash Japan condemned as "unforgivable." No one was injured.
Activist Paul Watson of the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society said his boat was trying to prevent a Japanese ship from dragging a whale on board when another Japanese boat shot in front of Watson's vessel, causing a collision.
"The situation down here is getting very, very chaotic and very aggressive," Watson told The Associated Press by satellite phone from his boat, named after the late Australian conservationist and TV personality, Steve Irwin.
In a statement, the Institute of Cetacean Research — the Japanese government-affiliated organization that oversees the hunt — condemned the protesters' actions, characterizing the collision as a "deliberate ramming" that occurred while the Japanese were trying to load a whale on board one of their ships.
Shigeki Takaya, a Fisheries Agency spokesman for whaling in Japan, called the incident "appalling and unforgivable."
"We will ask concerning countries, including Australia, to immediately stop them from carrying out such horrendous acts," Takaya said.
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Yeah, but that's COMMERCIAL fishing. If you've got an ice pick, and a fishing pole, and some really good long johns, it's STILL legal to fish there!!
WHEW HOO!
(don't forget the hot chocolate)
I believe the Japs on this one, since we all know how nutty these radical EnviroNazi's can get. Many of their antics can come very close to acts of piracy on the high seas. A couple of Japanese gunboats accompanying their trawlers should solve the problem.
But, on the other side of the coin, i really think the Japs (and the ChiComs) need to revaluate their traditions and eating habits. The Japs take a hell-of-a-lot of whales every year, and for what, to satisify some 3 thousand year old tradition? The ChiComs are still causing the handful of Tigers left in the wild to be poached for their body parts, thinking they have "magical" powers. In many specialized ChiCom restaurants, you can pay hundreds, sometimes thousands, of dollars for an order of Tiger penis. These folks need to get real!
Mmmmmm
Tiger penis
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