Northern Eagle

[theoldfart2]

I just watched a program about the factory trawler Northern Eagle. 

They were pulling in around 100 tons of fish a tow.

From what I saw, their primary objective in catching the fish was for the roe.

In this program they were complaining that a lot of the catch was too small to give them a profit for the trip.

By the end of the trip they had 70,000 boxes of fish fillets and roe.

Northern Eagle is just one of the fleet, (Google it)

It makes me give up!

Do people never learn? A hundred tons a time to get the roe as the fish are going to the breeding grounds?

I have often thought that if I had no family, and had a bottle of virus that would be totally fatal to the human race and leave the planet just to the creatures that share it with us, would I smash that bottle and release that virus?

I regret to say that for me the answer would be yes.

Humanity is hell bent on its own destruction and the decimation of this planet.

If you had that bottle, what would you do? Or is it wrong to ask? 

[loopy78]

Perhaps said smashing might be a bit severe, the majority cannot be wholly accountable for the few yada yada yada. Something will give eventually TOF, for better or worse

[theoldfart2]

Unfortunately as we all know,it won't be for the better.

Humanity is a parasite on this planet (check the definition )

We will take every resource until nothing is left,you know it,I know it.

It for certain won't be in my lifetime, but it may be in our kids.

I have seen the seas being emptied in the last 50 years, Herring,Cod Mackerel, and that just around here.

If humans spent as much time and money in ways to stabilise their existence on this planet as they did in perfecting ways to kill each other, there could be a chance. But there is no profit in that.

Every day I turn on the news, War here War there.

Total overfishing, pollution , global warming, no one gives a toss.

A bloody footballer bites someone and it's world news for weeks. 

The Dinosaurs lived here for 200,000,000 years without fxxxx up the planet.

Humans have been 'civilised' for 6,000.

Just look what we have done in the last 100 years.

I know some may say this isn't a thread that should be on a fishing forum, but I disagree .



Once the seas go, everything goes, and very soon we will all experience the consequences of letting it happen. 

[walker]

You know it, we know it and 'they' know it. The sad fact is nothing will be done unless a miracle occurs and it becomes a vote winner