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Again, maybe it's just location. In my area spear fishermen/divers are going 5-10 miles off shore or more. I was not talking about the kid in a loin cloth with a scuba tank going 100 foot off shore and in 20 foot of water for 8 hours. I was talking about the divers going 10-80 miles from shore in 110-200 foot of water armed with a spear gun and doing a bottom time of 20 to 60 minutes. My point is that the UNESCO rules might work well where you are but they don't really make much sense where I am. If trawlers are so much further off shore than I am, how come just about EVERY wreck I dive on has at least one trawling net snagged on it? Art. -----Original Message----- From: mat.voss@t-*.de* [mailto:mat.voss@t-*.de*] Sent: Wednesday, October 24, 2001 6:56 AM To: techdiver@aquanaut.com Cc: techdiver@aquanaut.com Subject: Re: UNESCO Art.Paltz@R2*.CO* schrieb: > > I think you mentioned spear fishing. You think that the depletion of a > species of fish is caused by divers? What about trawlers? A trawler in my > area can certainly bring up more fish in one day than a dive boat can in a > whole season. Same with party boats. Going to kill this industry too?? Art, This comparison fails. Trawlers do not get near coastal or reef waters, as divers/spearrfishers do. The Mediterrannean is an example of the depletion of species by spearfishing through not many years.. Aggravating is, that spearfishers go for the giggame, so make a selection contrary to natures, leaving the smaller and weaker behind. Bad for evolution. Given a chance to recover, in nature reserves the fish get and take a ggod chance of regrowing their population, but not with the original mix and bandwidth of species. Matthias -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'. -- Send mail for the `techdiver' mailing list to `techdiver@aquanaut.com'. Send subscribe/unsubscribe requests to `techdiver-request@aquanaut.com'.
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