Regional Postings: New Zealand Recent Postings from the region New Zealand at VocalNation.net http://vocalnation.net/user/ Tue, 06 Jan 2009 19:22:09 +0100 http://www.vocalnation.net/images/promote/vn_feed_image.png VocalNation.net http://www.vocalnation.net Feed provided by vocalnation.net. Click to visit. Subscribe to this feed by copying the URL from your browser's address bar into your feedreader of choice. You may choose to use a web-based feedreader such as Google Reader, NewsGator, Rojo, etc. or one of the many browser-plugin feed readers. Peter Jackson to make "The Hobbit" http://vocalnation.net/posting/1357/Peter+Jackson+to+make+%22The+Hobbit%22/ Sat, 22 Dec 2007 19:10:12 +0100 Posting1357-1198350612 New Zealand Bans Political Satire Against the Government - The Daily Show http://vocalnation.net/posting/398/New+Zealand+Bans+Political+Satire+Against+the+Government+-+The+Daily+Show/ NZ Herald Story on it.]]> Mon, 30 Jul 2007 07:58:37 +0100 Posting398-1185782317 New Zealand's Fisheries http://vocalnation.net/posting/90/New+Zealand%27s+Fisheries/ their numbers eventually became decimated, fisherman have moved over to ling cod, previously regarded as junk fish just as the Orange Roughy had once been. And now they're struggling to make a living with the Ling.

Fishing with my Granddad, he would always have a few favorite spots that consistently returned enough food for a couple of days and some to give to the family. But after a while the Asian, trawlers started showing up. For years they'd been moving further and further away from Asia, and they had eventually reached New Zealand. They fish by dragging their nets across the bottom of the ocean, chewing up the seabed. After one pass the bottom habitat is destroyed. We'd return to these spots after they'd come through and it would be completely silent. Often going hours with barely a bite.

What's currently happening in New Zealand waters has already become so much worse in many countries around the world. The world's fisheries are being depleted.

Compare this to how we think about other areas of business and growth. If you invest in a savings account or a new business it will only grow at a limited rate per year. Take out more than that and you reduce its base value, making it pay out even less each year. In a similar way, fish can only replenish their numbers at a limited rate. Take more than the oceans can give, and catch numbers will continue to plummet.
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