tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post7122089568348508838..comments2024-03-06T12:16:49.012-05:00Comments on Fire on the Mountain: BP's Gulf Blowout And Our FutureUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6502187932910780823.post-33643405198581856582010-05-27T22:09:30.569-04:002010-05-27T22:09:30.569-04:00I spent a week nearly a decade back visiting Lee a...I spent a week nearly a decade back visiting Lee and M's daughter in Key West. These were relatively flush times for the commercial fishing industry along the Gulf Coast, and even small operators were making a go of it. Between Lee's income from fishing and his wife's school-teaching salary, they were able to survive.<br /><br />When I read this post-BP disaster update, I'm reminded of another attack on aquaculture Iwitnessed in my travels. <br /><br />More recently I was in Nova Scotia visiting UMW miners on strike over health benefits for their retired members. I traveled on to Newfoundland where I discovered that the Canadian gov't doesn't allow citizens to deplete the dwindling oceanlife unless they're "sports-fishermen". This, despite the fact that U.S., Russian, German, and Japanese factory-fishing trawlers ply the waters of the Grand Banks, which are world-renowned for the quantities of fish, for the whole world except Newfoundlanders.<br /><br />When sensible limits on exploiting our natural world can't be applied sensibly, we have tragic disasters like the BP blow-out.Just a little youngernoreply@blogger.com