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海洋保育新聞Marine conservation in the news - 本地新聞 Hong Kong News
Thursday, 06 March 2008 03:28

An article from the scmp in the Post Magazine 2nd March 2008, talks about the terminal decline of the fishing industry in Hong Kong.  It is worth a read, some of the key quotes:

 

  1. "most fish landed within local waters these days are only a few centimeters long and the majority are destined to be ground up for food for aquaculture" 
  2. "powerful vested interests, further complicated by the Legislative Councils "rotton borough" functional constituency system helps ensure that unsustainable industrial scale fishing continues in Hong Kong waters"
  3. "Commercial fishing is even allowed in Marine Parks - surely the ultimate no catch zones"

 

The full article can be found here

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