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>I agree with Jack, but would also like to add one point, the more
>equipment/training that is supplied to the local community for lobster
>diving the more proficient they will become in diving lobsters: GOOD?

>NO, the lobster population will not be able to withstand the pressure and

The Indians are already proficient at taking lobsters.  Your concern that
they'll cause more damage to the environment because of medical treatment
and training is a intellectual red herring.  Nothing more.

>in a couple of years (if that long) the resource will not be sustainable and
>the whole industry will crash. The problem than will be that the local
>community will have no other skills or industry to fall back on.

The local community already has no other skills or industry to fall back on. 

>I don't know enough about the situation to provide a solution but I believe
>that the communities dependance on the lobster fishery should be
>reduced by diversification.

So, while we're busy intellectually masticating this problem, what do you
think should be done about the problem of people being crippled and dying? 

>What's next? Providing the community with TRIMIX courses and
>equipment to dive lobster at greater depths as the resource within the
>bounds of air diving is now also depleted beyond sustainable limits?

Actually, I think the reasonable next step would be making a quick jump to
newt suits.  That'd do it.  Yeah.  That'd be the ticket.  

>Please do not think that I am not sympathetic to the cause 

Now where in hell would anyone get such a ridiculous idea?

>but I would like to see a long term solution to the problem as opposed to a
short term
>one.

So, unless and until there's long term solutions to expanding populations,
encroachment of modern society into indigenous cultures, unsustainable
exploitation of natural resources, greedy corporations, and oblivious
consumers, you think nothing should be done?  Well someone should jump right
on it.  Sheesh.


Rocky Daniels

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