Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/11/08
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Aaargh!!! does this mean the end of Fish 'n Chips as we know them (it??) ? I always hated Haddock, bah! It was bad enough when they stopped frying in beef dripping , whatever will happen to Harry Ramsden's? Salmon in batter? no thanks! Douglas Luis Miguel Casta?eda wrote: > On 08/11/2005, at 10:18, Daniel Ridings wrote: > >> Frank, part of it is probably because of the Cod shortage. > > > the bad news are that cod is near to become officially extinct. > > The captures were being smaller and smaller campaign after campaign, > and as many studies said, the newer fishing techniques are completely > spoiled their capacity to reproduce once they have fished almost all > the active males. They require a long time to be sexually active and > they were sistematically spoiled for decades, so sadly it seems that > there is little hope left for the cod, even ceasing its fishing. > > Soon we're not able to say "In cod we trust" anymore. > > I readed that here and somewhere but mainly at http://www.ices.dk/ > indexfla.asp after the failure to reintroduce the cod in the north > atlantic sea, about a year ago. Their latest newsletter http:// > www.ices.dk/products/newsletters/Ices42.pdf seems to be a little > more optimist in a predictable scenario, but yet I only have readed > it in diagonal. > > Sorry for the totally OT even into the OT Aussie thread. > > > > > Saludos > ----------------------------------------- > http://imaginarymagnitude.net/blog/ > > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > >