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Got the following today by email, thought it is very worthy of
consideration. ============================================ Our backs are against the wall. We have a small commercial fishing business which has provided for us and our seven children and also a deckhand in the past. We are not wealty but have had sufficient to live on. Due to recent legislation enacted by the Beattie Government we have gone backwards to where we are now hoping and praying that we have enough to pay the bills. Because we are in business for ourselves, we do not qualify for any assistance from Centrelink, nor has the Beattie government made any allowance for assistance for people like us through the Rural Adjustment Scheme, nor has the government any intention of providing any compensation or restructure packages. They have repeatedly said, "NO COMPENSATION! The truth of it is that we would much rather be allowed to continue to work, anyway. Other fishers in the past have been bought out - why not now, or is a coalition government more fair-minded. If Beattie gets back in to government our days in this business will be finished, because we know what is on the agenda. We will be going out with a boat and a lot of specialised gear that we cannot sell and an expensive licence that has been reduced to being worth nothing. If Beattie's government and the voice of the population says to get rid of our industry, then the only fair thing is to buy us out and at least give us some dignity to get out with. After all, most people who leave a job after decades end up with some sort of golden handshake. All of Beattie's government who have been in for the two terms will have superannuation payouts beyond our comprehension. The government repeatedly says that we can go and catch other fish. Considering they have been closing everything else up and/or putting Investment Warnings out, because they continue to say there are 'too many fishers' (when the fleet has already been cut down drastically over the past decade, anyway) and we don't have the required History of fishing in these other fisheries, we would like to know, WHAT other fish CAN we target? Please read on, as our future depends on it. Over the past 3 years, the commercial fishing industry has had legislation enacted against it that has gone against the government's own studies and was even stated in documents to industry that it was 'in consequence of conflict between commercial and recreational fishers', and not for any reason of sustainability. We have since received information that the present government made promises to the anti-commercial fishing lobbyists (Sunfish) regarding enacting this legislation prior to the 2001 election. When the announcements have been made to the public, however, the government has mostly used the arguments of sustainability of the fish stocks to justify the decisions. We know this to be untrue but our efforts to bring the truth to the public get thwarted, and our industry continues to be demonized. We now have evidence that the government has made further promises to the anti-commercial fishing lobbyists, which are to be enacted after the election should the government be returned to office. What is needed is a government which is going to use true and honest consultation and science to re-enthrone commercial fishing as a valued primary industry which feeds people. Recreational fishers either catch & release their fish or keep it for themselves. The Queensland Seafood Industry Association has nothing against those who catch for their own use. Commercial fishers do not keep the seafood they catch for themselves. They provide food for the general public. FOOD is a BASIC DAILY NEED and dietitians point out that seafood has great importance in a balanced diet. The Queensland Seafood Industry is not against sustainability - in most cases it has been professional fishers who have been the ones who have identified the need to implement management measures to ensure sustainability, BUT the Beattie government goes for OVERKILL! By enacting legislation which is according to the government, 'in consequence of conflict between recreational and commercial fishers', the government has heavily impacted on commercial fisheries since that legislation has always been in favour of the recreational fishers. This provokes some serious questions which must be answered. In 2001-2002, the professional fishers of Queensland provided 63,765,000 meal portions of fish alone. With certain popular species being made accessible to recreational fishers only, and with many of the best fishing grounds being targeted as Fish Havens only accessible to recreational fishers, it hardly seems fair (as the Fisheries Act insists access must be), that the 840,000 people, (according to Sunfish figures) who go fishing for fun at least once a year, should take precedence over the millions of people who ate the 63,765,000 fish meal portions in 2001-2002. In a recent survey in the Courier Mail, a large proportion of our population reported that they are working longer hours than ever to make ends meet. You may even be in the same boat yourself. MILLIONS of people, even in the nations who are our geographically closest neighbours, are JUST TRYING TO SURVIVE and would rate recreation as very LOW on their list of priorities. With these things in mind, can anyone justify the present governments' management of this food supply and its apparent disregard for the rights of commercial fishers to provide food for their own families' NEEDS as well as for the population, simply to satisfy the WANTS of a few avid recreational anglers who WANT all of the resource to themselves so they can FISH FOR FUN? Is it ethical or right or SMART to sacrifice the population's FOOD in an effort to satisfy a few people's insatible desire for FUN? In the Fisheries Act, 1976, a provision gave right of way over recreational fishers to commercial fishers engaged in catching product. I believe this was for 2 very good reasons: 1.. It showed respect for those engaged in the normal course of earning an honest living, and; 2.. It showed respect for those who help provide the populations' food. Since then, in Queensland, commercial fishers have been demonized through the lobbying of certain anti-commercial fishing people with time on their hands, and who largely want the resource to themselves. By listening to these lobbyists and making promises to them, the present government has shown an obvious disregard for our population's need for good food. Marie Antoinette learnt that it wasn't SMART to be flippant about a population's food supply. Do you think it SMART for a government to bite the hands that feed them by legislating to place huge sections of a valuable food supply solely into the hands of a few who want to catch & release that fish for FUN? In considering the importance of sustainability of fish stocks, there is serious concern over the survival rate of those fish which are caught & released. We know that the very great majority of these fish are so mutilated, or so exhausted that they cannot possibly survive in the harsh marine environment. It's a FISH EAT FISH world out there!!! If you have any compassion for our plight and the plights of hundreds of other commercial fishing families, OR if you simply think this situation is unfair or unwise, OR if you care at all about your own access to fresh Queensland seafood, then PLEASE, PLEASE send this email on to as many others as you can before February 7th and ask your political candidates for their responses to these questions I have raised, and seek a commitment from them to safeguard our livelihoods and your seafood BEFORE YOU VOTE ON SATURDAY. Thank you for taking the time to read this email and if you act on our behalf, I thank you from the bottom of my heart. |
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Whilst I sympathise your situation I wonder if your predicament was
foreseeable with the growth in Aqua culture. Having been a commercial fisherman in the past and now a recreational fisherman I understand quite well both sides of this argument. It is my belief that Governments Australia wide have put the fisheries problem well and truly into the "too hard basket" and are making decisions purely from the information delivered by the various lobby groups. If one lobby group is particularly articulate and persuasive then that tends to be the route the presiding minister takes rather than doing their own research. In Victoria it seems that the anti fishing lobbies are far more vocal than others and therefore we are finding that all fishing activities are being curtailed. Somewhere in the middle of the two is a happy medium where a number of commercial operators can sustain a viable and renewable resource based income without threatening the eco system that supports them and without destroying the fishery for the recreationalists. But until we can manage a completely independent research analysis this will never happen. Good luck with your efforts and I hope the Beattie government gets a pounding too |
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Relayed important on-topic information
****************************** TO ALL CONCERNED As for today 5th of February 2004 I am assuming duty as New Shadow Ambassador of Australia in France ! ( Shadowing the Official ******* in Paris ) At the opposite of the one in Paris, lying till blue in the face about the fraudulent opportunities in the Land of *******s, and inducing by definitive intellectual misconduct good people of France to emigrate to the LAND OF *******S , I will therefore assume from now the Official charge of representing Australia in what it is really ! A Hell on Earth , a Country of unfairness, a Country of no gratitude nor recognition where Thieves are congratulated and Financial Criminals celebrated, and whose Laws are based on Evil Principles of Greed, Injustice and hideous exploitation of migrants. I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people wanting to migrate to the Land of Mental, Moral, Intellectual Filth, Dust, Dirt and ruled by Political Manure ! I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people not satisfied with their present situation, to prevent them taking the terrible decision of migrating to a Country where immediately upon landing they will known as Frogs, and considered with contempt ... and whatever their achievements for the LOB, they will perish in misery known till the end as Frogs ! I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people not to go to Australia, the Land of No Hope and Despair indeed ! I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people not to go any time to what I consider now as an ENEMY COUNTRY LET IT BE KNOWN -- Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud Australian Mining Pioneer Hydro & Mining Prospector _ Senior Geologist Discoverer & Legal Owner of Telfer; Kintyre & Nifty Mines Great Sandy Desert.of Australia Discoverer of the South Atlantic Submarine Gold Placers ( 40 Millions Tons estimate ) Founder of the TRUE GEOLOGY ~~Ignorance Is The Cosmic Sin, The One Never Forgiven ! ~~ |
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Marie Antoinette learnt that it wasn't SMART to be flippant about a
population's food supply. Marie Antoinette DID NOT make this infamous misquote! If your other arguments are as equally well-researched, then you are on shaky grounds. |
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Take two asprin, stay well away from pre schools and small fury animals and
do take a long walk off a short plank. "# jpturcaud" wrote in message ... Relayed important on-topic information ****************************** TO ALL CONCERNED As for today 5th of February 2004 I am assuming duty as New Shadow Ambassador of Australia in France ! ( Shadowing the Official ******* in Paris ) At the opposite of the one in Paris, lying till blue in the face about the fraudulent opportunities in the Land of *******s, and inducing by definitive intellectual misconduct good people of France to emigrate to the LAND OF *******S , I will therefore assume from now the Official charge of representing Australia in what it is really ! A Hell on Earth , a Country of unfairness, a Country of no gratitude nor recognition where Thieves are congratulated and Financial Criminals celebrated, and whose Laws are based on Evil Principles of Greed, Injustice and hideous exploitation of migrants. I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people wanting to migrate to the Land of Mental, Moral, Intellectual Filth, Dust, Dirt and ruled by Political Manure ! I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people not satisfied with their present situation, to prevent them taking the terrible decision of migrating to a Country where immediately upon landing they will known as Frogs, and considered with contempt ... and whatever their achievements for the LOB, they will perish in misery known till the end as Frogs ! I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people not to go to Australia, the Land of No Hope and Despair indeed ! I am available any time of the day or night for advice to French people not to go any time to what I consider now as an ENEMY COUNTRY LET IT BE KNOWN -- Sir Jean-Paul Turcaud Australian Mining Pioneer Hydro & Mining Prospector _ Senior Geologist Discoverer & Legal Owner of Telfer; Kintyre & Nifty Mines Great Sandy Desert.of Australia Discoverer of the South Atlantic Submarine Gold Placers ( 40 Millions Tons estimate ) Founder of the TRUE GEOLOGY ~~Ignorance Is The Cosmic Sin, The One Never Forgiven ! ~~ |
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