Griz Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 I am still amazed that the DFO allowed overfishing with their billion dollar budget. What have they done since 1992 over there? Sit on computers all day long and write into forums? It was not the people of NL it was large foriegn fishing trawlers. If we were to get rid of foriegn trawlers I'm sure that there would be a dramatic increase in the fish population (although we might not notice because it's very hard to gauge fish population numbers). Quote
Guest TrueMetis Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 I am still amazed that the DFO allowed overfishing with their billion dollar budget. What have they done since 1992 over there? Sit on computers all day long and write into forums? You clearly have no idea how hard it is to gauge the population of fish. Quote
punked Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 You clearly have no idea how hard it is to gauge the population of fish. The problem he doesn't understand how this happened in the first place. Everything would have been fine if they just threw nets and caught what they caught but as fish populations got lower sonar was used to target the fish. So they could pull whole meta populations of Cod in weeks with this thing. DFO said we are catching as much fish as we always have so there must be the same amount of fish in the sea. However this was not true they were no longer fishing blind. It was a terrible terrible idea all around. The thing was though there was enough fish for our quotas there wasn't for ours plus everyone else stealing our fish. Quote
Griz Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 I've heard political buzz words like "an educated guess" and "cautiously optimistic," oh and after the millions of sockeye went missing on the Fraser the buzz word was "an inexact science!" You clearly have no idea how hard it is to gauge the population of fish. Quote
Guest TrueMetis Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 I've heard political buzz words like "an educated guess" and "cautiously optimistic," oh and after the millions of sockeye went missing on the Fraser the buzz word was "an inexact science!" You go figure out how many of a certain species of fish there are. The thing about fish is they don't have to come out of the water so they're kind of hard to count. Campare this to the DFO's management of seals it's just about perfect. No organization on the planet has developed a good way to count fish. Quote
Guest SapereAude Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 The government is choosing to reopen the fishery even though not a single Tory MP was elected in N.L. This shows the determination of the PM to get all of Canada's economy working again not just those that voted for Conservative but for all Canadians!Great job PM Harper, show the people of Canada that you meant it when you said you'll work in the interest of all Canadians! Are you trying to say that this is going to make up for the 1.6 billion in transfer payments Harper decided to strip from NL in the 2009 budget? Saying Harper has the best interests of all Canadians in mind is like saying bringing back the cod fishery is a good thing. It's just not true. Quote
Mr.Canada Posted October 6, 2009 Author Report Posted October 6, 2009 Are you trying to say that this is going to make up for the 1.6 billion in transfer payments Harper decided to strip from NL in the 2009 budget? Saying Harper has the best interests of all Canadians in mind is like saying bringing back the cod fishery is a good thing. It's just not true. The transfer payments are not guaranteed forever. They are given on a performance basis. NL has made a lot of money from their oil rigs and are no longer qualifying for the payments. NL is no longer a have not province. Quote "You are scum for insinuating that isn't the case you snake." -William Ashley Canadian Immigration Reform Blog
noahbody Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 (edited) Are you trying to say that this is going to make up for the 1.6 billion in transfer payments Harper decided to strip from NL in the 2009 budget? Saying Harper has the best interests of all Canadians in mind is like saying bringing back the cod fishery is a good thing. It's just not true. Newfoundland was the recipient of the biggest federal transfer in history. Off-shore oil revenues constitutionally belong to the federal government. Your daddy gave you his business and you're busting his balls for cutting off your allowance. Edited October 6, 2009 by noahbody Quote
Oleg Bach Posted October 6, 2009 Report Posted October 6, 2009 If the Cod are back - you had better surround this wealth with war ships to keep those plundering others from stealing our stock again. This supply of protein should be kept for family - for CANADIANS...we are going to need it...let China - Japan - Russia and the others F off and go manage their own depeted stock of protein. Quote
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