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We are fish are we? Well that explains Abbott, cold blooded and slippery, slimy. Explains his love of red herrings too. 

Lovely good kippers are, why aren't they made out of Australian Salmon? Or herring for that matter, I've made herring kippers in an old wine barrel and couldn't make enough.

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For starters, it is more expensive.

Here's a reference from the ABC Science website:

Survival of the fishes

By Stephen Pincock
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Scientists, government bodies and environmentalists say that although Australia still has problems, it has come a long way in recent years in terms of fishing sustainability.

The job of managing fishing in Australian waters is split between the Federal and State governments. Broadly speaking, the states deal with fisheries up to three nautical miles from shore, where the bulk of the catch comes from. The Federal government handles the remainder of the fishing zone, which extends out to 200 nautical miles.
For most of our history, as Kearney says, sustainability was not exactly the top priority of those management schemes. "When I came back to Australia in 1986 and took the job as director of research for New South Wales Fisheries, it was New South Wales Government policy that it was impossible to over-exploit any species of fish and if you fished them down a bit, then people would just move on and fish the next species."

But the government, scientists, and the fishing industry say that things have improved in recent years. In 2005, for example, the Federal government announced a $220 million package that aimed to reduce overfishing through buying back fishing licences. Concern about overfishing was also a factor in the decision by governments to establish marine protected areas where fishing was banned.

Both marine parks and well-managed fisheries are essential to ensure sustainable fish stocks, say the Australian Marine Sciences Association, a group of 900 Australian marine scientists.

Kearney, on the other hand, believes marine protected areas do nothing to improve fishing sustainability, but he says a combination of tighter quotas and reducing fishing effort have made a difference."We realised that we had to cut back on the amount of fish being caught and killed and have done that," he says.
Fulton says that overfishing in Australia, particularly in the Commonwealth fisheries has "largely stopped"."The government said: 'Right we are going to reduce the pressure on the fish to let them recover to sustainable levels for the future'," she explains. "So we have a bad report card right now with regard to the health of the stock, but it is actually improving."

According to the Australian government's latest fishery status report the number of fish stocks that have been assessed as not overfished has more than doubled since 2004, and the number of stocks classified as not subject to overfishing has risen from 12 to 57 in that time.

The report currently classifies 13 of Australia's 98 fish stocks as being overfished (see list below), including three new additions: blue warehou, upper-slope gulper sharks and jackass morwong. Eight stocks are classified as being subject to overfishing.

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Because there are not enough fish to go around. It is not the cost of harvesting fish that is driving up the price, but the shortage of them.

But you just said the cost of producing aquaculture fish was a problem for them to replace/suppliment the wild harvest. 

Can you give a link to where you got those numbers from you posted earlier? [/quote]

See above.

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You are not making much sense PJ.

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I saw above. No link. Is it your default position now to copy and paste, or 'reinterpret' without giving any links?

freediver wrote on Sep 11^th, 2011 at 9:53am:


Spoken like a true economist.

Grey wrote on Sep 11^th, 2011 at 9:20pm:


In a good way?