MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Falklands’ Illex: one good season does not transform an industry
Despite a relatively buoyant 2011 Illex fishing season and “some optimism for the future,” one jigging company went out of business and others had problems finding the funds to pay licence fees said The Falkland Islands Director of Fisheries John Barton. Read full article
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Disclaimer & comment rulesWould have been better if not for Argentine incompetence !
Aug 13th, 2011 - 06:51 am - Link - Report abuse 0http://lordton1955.wordpress.com/2011/08/13/77/
A lot of things would be better but for Argentine incompetence( & bloody-mindedness!).
Aug 13th, 2011 - 09:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0To Míster Banana Red Hot and squidmillonaires
Aug 13th, 2011 - 04:43 pm - Link - Report abuse 0“Based on these figures it would seem that allowing UNASUR and S:African nations to take charge of south atlantic and its resources would be a little putting the asylum into the care of residents”
This article and its cynical way its written shows us:
1) UK with its BOT doesnt want to sign peace treaties (Peace zone in south atlantic signed by south african countries and south american countries) you dont go for peace.
2) You are saying that the real countries involved in south atlantic because they are bordering it cant be in charge of its own resources??
oh nooooooooo, the residents cant be in charge of the assylum???
we need the expertise of Uk stealers they know how to get in charge of OTHERS resources
the resources of SA whether you like it or not its a matter of the countries residing near them not of foreign countries that has nothing to do or say and of international organization that regulate this. these countries makes agreement on fishering and peace and whatever we like.
3) Arg economy not depends on fishing, Malvinas exclusively depends on fishering. Thats the reason you have increased sea zone of Malvinas islands, from 12 miles, to 150 miles. You gave 25 years licences of fishering.
Go to sell green bananas to monkeys, not to us.
Mad'un, you have a 200 mile EEZ. Brazil has a 200 mile EEZ. South Africa has a 200 mile EEZ. And that's as far as you'll ever get to controlling the Atlantic!
Aug 13th, 2011 - 11:40 pm - Link - Report abuse 0The FIG are entitled to sell licence within their EEZ, and they do. Be it 12 month, 5 year, 25 year or 50 year licences it is up to them. Mind you own business!
And the falklands economy looks likely to be adding oil to its list .... they'll probably sell licences :-)
3 malen
Aug 14th, 2011 - 01:15 am - Link - Report abuse 0''these countries makes agreement on fishering and peace and whatever we like.''
Very good. I just hope you feel like doing it soon, because at the moment you're looking like you couldn't find your arse with both hands.
Joint management of resources that reach across zones is in everybody's best interests. You're just too pig- headed and ignorant to realise it. Meanwhile your own fishing communities go out of business.
Nice one. I hope they appreciate your fine sentiments on their behalf.
lf we ignore her, will she go away?
Aug 14th, 2011 - 11:49 am - Link - Report abuse 0monty im going to try not to be rude with you, mosquitos (not find the apostrophe in dell computer) headed, complicated but grateful day. half an hour waiting to vote, they didnt have tinta, then the presidente de mesa was that kind of kids that are very meticulosos and desperately lento...but i vote early in the morning. There were lots of fiscales, well we have 2900 precandidates......in my province.
Aug 14th, 2011 - 05:10 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Birmingham wrote a book about the way you fish and take care of your species didnt he?
7 malen
Aug 14th, 2011 - 07:58 pm - Link - Report abuse 0Almost everything you write is rude and insulting but you don't much like it when I do it.
I'm assuming that you're talking about Mike Bingham. I don't know if he wrote a book, but he certainly has some opinions about fishing.
He also wrote an application form that said he had a PhD, which turned out not to be true.
And he claimed that the police had planted porn under his bed and tried to kill him.
I also remember a piece of high quality science in the Penguin News entitled 'Lester the poor starving penguin chick', and another article which claimed the penguin victims of the red tide all starved to death, which was later proven to be untrue. Which anyone who witnessed it could have seen even without the toxicology reports.
Someone wrote a book rubbishing the 'regime' that exposed them as a fraud. No surprises there.
It may well be that fishing does harm some kinds of birdlife, but you won't find any evidence of it in Binghams writings.
I heard an interesting statistic the other day; that the Argentine discarded bycatch is greater than the total Falkland Islands catch. So whatever effect we are having, you can be sure that your effect is greater.
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