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hatrack

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6. Apples and oranges. Whaling is a relic industry, kept alive in, what, four nations? Five?

Tue Jun 10, 2014, 09:19 AM

Jun 2014

Fishing is a vast global enterprise fueling everything from "sustainable" aquaculture to fish meal for garden fertilizer to Omega 3 diet supplements to pollack and snow crab to support the faux crab industry, to say nothing of enormous industrial fisheries for squid and increasingly krill, God help us.

Oh, and fish for people to eat. Shouldn't forget that.

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Canadian Archaeologists Find Superabundance Of Pacific Herring Before Industrial Fishing Began [View all] hatrack Jun 2014 OP

I recall from eleswhere dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #1

Here: GliderGuider Jun 2014 #3

Enforced how, and by whom? hatrack Jun 2014 #4

You could say the same about whaling. dipsydoodle Jun 2014 #5

Apples and oranges. Whaling is a relic industry, kept alive in, what, four nations? Five? hatrack Jun 2014 #6

Fishing is considered an "essential industry" worldwide. Whaling is not. GliderGuider Jun 2014 #9

Goodbye, and thanks for all the fish. GliderGuider Jun 2014 #2

When the Pilgrims first came to MA and and saw a bay full of fish, unhappycamper Jun 2014 #7

"Crashed" might be more accurate - at least as far as the cod are concerned hatrack Jun 2014 #8

even a wiki link MisterP Jun 2014 #11

K&R pscot Jun 2014 #10