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When we go to to areas like the Red Sea, we take great pains not to damage the marine environment in any way. We certainly wouldnt dream of popping the odd reef fish into our goodie bags. Then we come back to British waters, which, as we are constantly reminding people, offer some fantastic diving, and we mutate into frustrated spearhunters, whipping crabs lobsters (and apparently Dogfish) into our goodie bags. How many of us know much about their lifecycles to know what impact we are having? A lobster, for example, may live for up to 50 years.
Now I grant that the amount of stuff that divers take is very low compared to the stuff taken commercially. But given the damage industrialised fishing, fish farming, and sea bed dredging have already done to the marine environment round our coasts, shouldnt we leave the goodie bags behind and take the same hands-off attitude to British sea life as we would on a coral reef?
When we go to to areas like the Red Sea, we take great pains not to damage the marine environment in any way. We certainly wouldnt dream of popping the odd reef fish into our goodie bags. Then we come back to British waters, which, as we are constantly reminding people, offer some fantastic diving, and we mutate into frustrated spearhunters, whipping crabs lobsters (and apparently Dogfish) into our goodie bags. How many of us know much about their lifecycles to know what impact we are having? A lobster, for example, may live for up to 50 years.
Now I grant that the amount of stuff that divers take is very low compared to the stuff taken commercially. But given the damage industrialised fishing, fish farming, and sea bed dredging have already done to the marine environment round our coasts, shouldnt we leave the goodie bags behind and take the same hands-off attitude to British sea life as we would on a coral reef?