There have been at least 16 fatal attacks in Sydney Harbour since the late 1880’s, all in the summer months of December, January, and February. Hathaway was the last to die. But Paul de Gelder came very close in February 2009. The navy diver was on a dawn assignment at Garden Island, helping to test sonar gear and swimming along the surface on his back when he felt “an almighty whack on the leg”. Read the rest here 09:34
NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?
While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here
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