Commonwealth Fisheries Association director, Brian Jeffriess, said there would be nothing to fear from the arrival of the new fishing trawler. "There's much bigger boats than this operating all around Australia and have been for 10 to 15 years," he said.10-15 years huh? It's also more than 10 years since The Empty Ocean
was published, which was around the same time that studies showed that the number of large predatory fish in the worlds oceans had crashed by 90% due to industrialized fishing. It was made perfectly clear back then that tuna, swordfish, marlins, sharks, rays, and a host of others will likely be victims of a human caused mass marine extinction if destructive fishing methods were not curtailed.And it's also perfectly clear to me that as a civilization, we've made our decision. We don't care. Or at least not enough to stop this madness.
