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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//IETF//DTD HTML//EN//2.0"> <html> <head> <title>AR-NEWS Digest</title> </head> <BODY bgcolor=fbfaea text=#211818 link="#190748" alink="#FFFFEF" vlink="#401C92"> <center> <IMG SRC="IMAGES/HEAD.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/head.gif" USEMAP="#toplinks" BORDER="0"><BR> <img src="IMAGES/YCBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/ycbar.gif"><a href="../INDEX~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/index.html"><img src="IMAGES/HOMEBAR.GIF" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/digest/images/homebar.gif" border=0></a><br></center> <map name="toplinks"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="345,27,393,54" href="../../../tppmsgs/msgs0.htm#14" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/envirohome.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="458,7,512,27" href="../SUPPOR~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Support.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="401,7,446,26" href="../SEARCH~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/search.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="352,7,386,26" href="../ORGS~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/Orgs.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="298,7,337,25" href="../NEWSPA~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/newspage.html"> <AREA SHAPE="rect" COORDS="211,7,286,27" href="../SUB~1.HTM" tppabs="http://www.envirolink.org/arrs/sub.html"> </map> <center><TABLE cellspacing=15 border=0> <TR> <TD width=50 align=center> </TD> <TD width=400 align=left> <!-- PAGE CONTENT GOES BELOW --> <hr> <pre> AR-NEWS Digest 373 Topics covered in this issue include: 1) Fwd: [US] Proposed Herring Gold Rush in Gloucester Could Threaten Fish Sto by David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> 2) Man cannot do with nature as he pleases by vadivu <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 3) (HK) Hunter turned birdwatcher by vadivu <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 4) (MY) Register pets by vadivu <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 5) (MY) Documentary on life underwater by vadivu <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> 6) Donkey Basketball-Calls Needed by Debbie Leahy <DLEAHY@delphi.com> 7) Subscription Options--Admin Note by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 8) (US) Bug Zappers May Do More Harm by allen schubert <alathome@clark.net> 9) Fwd: Protesters Roar at Lion Dinner by LMANHEIM@aol.com 10) Fwd: Sea World Of Florida Guests 'Wading' To Meet Dolphins by LMANHEIM@aol.com 11) Japanese Embassy in Ontario by BHGazette@aol.com 12) Ohio Police Officer needs help by Vegetarian Resource Center <vrc@tiac.net> Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 21:27:26 -0700 (PDT) >From: David J Knowles <dknowles@dowco.com> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Fwd: [US] Proposed Herring Gold Rush in Gloucester Could Threaten Fish Sto Message-ID: <1.5.4.16.19970411212803.094f8b46@dowco.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Forwarded from Greenpeace's press release server >Comments: Authenticated sender is <greenbas@pop.greenbase.gl3> >From: "Greenbase" <greenbas@gb.greenpeace.org> >Organization: Greenpeace >To: press-releases@xs2.greenpeace.org >Date: Fri, 11 Apr 1997 11:51:27 -8 >Subject: Proposed Herring Gold Rush in Gloucester Could Threaten Fish Sto >Sender: owner-press-releases@xs2.greenpeace.org >Reply-To: nobody@xs2.greenpeace.org > >PROPOSED HERRING GOLD RUSH IN GLOUCESTER > COULD THREATEN FISH STOCKS > > >WHAT: Gloucester Fishery Commission Meeting - Discussion of >herring expansion plants > >WHO: Gloucester Fishery Commission, Gloucester Initiatives, >Greenpeace > > >WHEN: Thursday, April 10 - 7:00PM > >WHERE: Sawyer Free Library, Gloucester, Massachusetts > > >GLOUCESTER, MA - The Gloucester Fisheries Commission is holding >their monthly meeting during which they will discuss the proposed >$10 million herring and mackerel processing plant on the state fish >pier and the former incinerator vessel that is being retrofitted to >become a factory trawler to fish on the East Coast. A business >group called the Gloucester Herring Corporation wants to build the >50,000 square foot plant and put into operation, at minimum, a 369 >foot factory trawler to catch and process the herring. A Dutch >fishing company called Parlevliet & Van Der Plas would fund the >venture. Last December Greenpeace blocked a Parlevliet & Van Der >Plas trawler, the Helen Mary, in the English Channel while it was >fishing for herring roe. The Greenpeace protest was sparked >because the European Union reduced fishing in that region by 50% as >a means of saving the stocks. > > >Greenpeace and other local groups will attend the meeting to >address the concerns of the fishermen in Gloucester and throughout >New England and to alert residents to the negative environmental >effects that this type of fishing will have on ensuring the healthy >biomass of the Northwest Atlantic waters. "The presence of this >factory trawler, with an 11,000 HP engine, invites similar vessels >looking for a fishery," said Niaz Dorry, Greenpeace Fisheries >Campaigner. "The North Pacific factory trawl fleet is already on >the record expressing interest." > > Even with a healthy stock, many fishermen and others in the >fishing communities experienced the negative impact of the factory >trawl fleet on many fish stocks including herring, haddock, and >cod in the 1960s and 1970s. Not only did the factory trawlers >play a major role in the overfishing of commercial stocks, their >presence played havoc on Georges Bank's ecosystem. Currently, >there is no federal fishery management plan for herring. There >are some efforts to use the current preliminary management plans >as a platform on which to build a federal plan, but the Atlantic >States Marine Fisheries Commission is only just starting this >process. > >The plant, which would be the biggest of its kind in New England, >would pack and freeze more than 20,000 tons of herring each year >and ship it overseas, according to Frank Elliott, owner of a >Gloucester shipping company and president of Gloucester Herring >Corp. Approval of this project would mark the return of factory >trawling to New England waters. The project is currently backed by >Gloucester Mayor Bruce Tobey and Vito Colomo of the towns >fisheries commission. > >Greenpeace and other concerned groups are demanding that this >almost completed factory trawler and other factory trawlers be >stopped from entering the Northwest Atlantic waters. The fishing >communities and the fish stock have suffered enough. > >FOR MORE INFORMATION: >Niaz Dorry - Greenpeace Fisheries Campaigner (508)283-5893 >Terri Johnson - Greenpeace Press Officer, Washington, DC >(202)319-2542 > > > > > > > > > > Date: Sat, 12 Apr 1997 14:33:35 +0800 (SST) >From: vadivu <kuma@cyberway.com.sg> To: ar-news@envirolink.org Subject: Man cannot do with nature as he pleases Message-ID: <199704120633.OAA12889@eastgate.cyberway.com.sg> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"