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| Originally Posted by resting rifleman voted do nothing, nature has been filling the spaces left by extinction events forever, leave the fishermen alone, they've got the excrement end of the stick again. they have been sold out by succesive governments for a long time now. my father and grandfather were fishermen (and lifeboatmen) and so were many of my predecessors.
Great great grandfather big club, who lived in the third cave on the left, would pick up his tools and weapons thousands of years ago, and go off to hunt to feed his family, who the fcuk has the right TO TELL ME I CANT? |
So does that mean we should be happy to let Norway and Japan hunt as many whales as they want to? Or let people hunt tigers or rhinos to extinction? Ultimately the money that people make doing this goes to feed their familiy, so can we say they can't do it? Well, yes I think we should.
Extinction events take a long, long, long time to recover from, man has already caused the extinction of thousands of species and once they're gone, that's it, they're gone. Yes, nature will eventually fill the holes with something else, but we need to be thinking about the world that we'll be leaving to our children and their children, if we want to them to be able to fish in the seas then we need to make sure there are still viable populations of fish.
But yes, I do agree, our fishing fleet has been royally screwed.