Something Fishy in Canada. Very Fishy.
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Johnnny .."in canada, we rely heavily on the natural resource industry to put food on the table.... "
"Heavily" is the word..Their pavin the water ways here...In Canada our politicians give all that is Canadian (including our natural resources) to their business partners for free, leaving little food on the table for hard workers /slave drones..
"Heavily" is the word..Their pavin the water ways here...In Canada our politicians give all that is Canadian (including our natural resources) to their business partners for free, leaving little food on the table for hard workers /slave drones..
thats not true alot of canadians work for those companies, geologist, lumber jacks, miners, surveyors, fisherman, etc etc
Check out Toronto and Vancouver, they are loaded with offices for junior mineral exploration companies, and the support staff for them is tremendous...
Check out Toronto and Vancouver, they are loaded with offices for junior mineral exploration companies, and the support staff for them is tremendous...
$6 million huh? Even chumpier....
The point of the hunt? It's obviously not about money. Although $6 million dollars will feed a lot of people in a year.
$16 million was the value given to the 2006 seal hunt and $10 million for 2007 by the DFO (Deparment of Fisheries and Oceans). Statistics are slow to be published so guestimating the that this hunt is worth $6 million is pure speculation. But even if the guestimated figure is low, questioning the point of the hunt is akin to questioning a farmer's point to seed when grain prices are in the toilet. You won't know the value until it's all said and done.
Back that up please. Something as general as that statement needs to be qualified, if you please.
There is a reason populations of a species explodes. Often when we are involved, it's go something to do with us cutting the numbers of their preditors down. Thus their numbers rise for a while until the natural balance is achieved. Usually through a shortage of food.
The Cod stocks were fished out by people not seals. So how can it be that the seal pelt harvest is to preserve the Cod fishery, which has at this point collapsed on the east coast?
Now shouldn't we just leave things alone and allow them to find a natural balance and then attempt to live within that balance? Or is the big picture not about to include balance?
That's your mantra? :roll:
People that blame seals for the low cod counts, are the same folks from around here who believe the cormorants deplete freshwater fish stoks, when yes it is us humans
Is it just me or is the world trying to lecture us canadians on how we run our lives? Russia wants our land, france wants more ocean floor space by those islands of of newfoundland, people are attacking our industries with there touchy touchy feely attitudes.... Whats next america annexing the bitmuin feilds in the praires?
Er....if you placed them in the gallows you would not have to feed them seal meat or give them water.;-):lol:
No. From the sounds of CDNBear and others in this thread, that is probably a good thing.8O:lol:
Take me to the gallows pole....sounds grim. Perhaps a little to quick for our well meaning friends. Perhaps regular jail will do, so they can have time to think about their behaviour.
Er....if you placed them in the gallows you would not have to feed them seal meat or give them water.;-):lol:
Ha...Shadow that's still too good for them. No windows and I'll be happy.They may get a little stir-crazy...
Let's revise shall we?
You said:
I asked you to back that up and so you post a link to Peta?
Come on, Peta is radical in comparison to most animal rights groups.
I don't see how you can seriously make the suggestion that they are in fact the model of animal rights groups.
Someone has to take the side of humane and ethical treatment of animals even during a harvest. We know what happens when there is only the side of only those who make a profit off a resource doing the talking.
Then you go on to finish with:
Well when you say "Man" you actually mean the people who fish these oceans daily. It wasn't the farmers who fished out the fishery. It wasn't the seals who run factory fishing vessels off the Grand Banks. That was the fishermen who despite what DFO, scientists and animal rights groups said, choose money over all else and took more than the resource could sustain until the fishery collapsed.
So why in the world do we have to listen to the same bad ideas that brought down the fishery when it's obvious that they will take all they can regardless of the damage it leaves for future generations of Maritimers and the inbalance it creates in the ecosystem?
Indeed.
You said:
I asked you to back that up and so you post a link to Peta?
Come on, Peta is radical in comparison to most animal rights groups.
I don't see how you can seriously make the suggestion that they are in fact the model of animal rights groups.
Someone has to take the side of humane and ethical treatment of animals even during a harvest. We know what happens when there is only the side of only those who make a profit off a resource doing the talking.
Then you go on to finish with:
Well when you say "Man" you actually mean the people who fish these oceans daily. It wasn't the farmers who fished out the fishery. It wasn't the seals who run factory fishing vessels off the Grand Banks. That was the fishermen who despite what DFO, scientists and animal rights groups said, choose money over all else and took more than the resource could sustain until the fishery collapsed.
So why in the world do we have to listen to the same bad ideas that brought down the fishery when it's obvious that they will take all they can regardless of the damage it leaves for future generations of Maritimers and the inbalance it creates in the ecosystem?
Indeed.