http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/taking-a-crack-at-a-policy/ what happens when ideas slide past each other Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:06:29 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/index.php/2009/10/taking-a-crack-at-a-policy/comment-page-1/#comment-884 Heather Doherty Fri, 23 Oct 2009 16:50:03 +0000 http://www.notionparallax.co.uk/blog/?p=277#comment-884 Your idea is quite good but two flaws which immediately spring to mind are: <ol> <li>1. by 'fish', you are particularly referring to the fish that we (the 'west') eat - we are very fussy fish eaters and we're greedy too. Fishing communities in Vanuatu for example, eat what they catch. Obviously they have preferences but the idea of throwing fish back into the sea is fascicle. Also, their traditional methods of fishing means that only mature fish are caught. This, added to a rotational 'hunting' system, ensures the reproductive cycle isn't broken. </li> <li>2. Trawlers are bad, regardless of what they intend to collect, as there is no way of distinguishing between fish, plastic, mammals or anything for that matter. </li> </ol> Your idea is quite good but two flaws which immediately spring to mind are:

1. 1. by ‘fish’, you are particularly referring to the fish that we (the ‘west’) eat – we are very fussy fish eaters and we’re greedy too. Fishing communities in Vanuatu for example, eat what they catch. Obviously they have preferences but the idea of throwing fish back into the sea is fascicle. Also, their traditional methods of fishing means that only mature fish are caught. This, added to a rotational ‘hunting’ system, ensures the reproductive cycle isn’t broken.
2. 2. Trawlers are bad, regardless of what they intend to collect, as there is no way of distinguishing between fish, plastic, mammals or anything for that matter.

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