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You talk about a screw up. I just can’t believe this. He goes all over the world preaching conservation and how endangered species should be paid more attention to. Well, I guess this is his way of doing it.
Idiot.
Written by GussONLY one week after Live Earth, Al Gore’s green credentials slipped while hosting his daughter’s wedding in Beverly Hills.
Gore and his guests at the weekend ceremony dined on Chilean sea bass - arguably one of the world’s most threatened fish species.
Also known as Patagonian toothfish, the species is under pressure from illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, jeopardising the sustainability of remaining stocks.
The species is currently managed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Living Marine Resources, the body which introduced a catch and trade documentation scheme as an attempt to tackle illegal poaching of this species.
Working with non-government organisations, the Humane Society International’s focus is now on pursuit of illegal fishing operators who, in the rush to cash in on the highly valued species, plunder stocks with no regard for sustainability.
It has been estimated that more than 50 per cent of toothfish traded is illegally caught, and includes juveniles vital to the ongoing toothfish population.
Ed Darrell Says:
July 29th, 2007 at 3:38 amVisit Ed Darrell
Half stories have a tendency to be half truths.
First, Chilean sea bass are not endangered. However, conservationists (like Al Gore) realized that the species were being overfished, and undertook conservation measures about a decade ago. Many of these measures were voluntary, but they were dedicated to provided replenishable and replenishing stocks of the fish. The wild populations are recovering as a result, and are expected to provide sustainable stocks of the fish in the future.
Some of these populations may be fished now.
Second, some farm populations of the fish have been established, working to avoid the problems of other fish farms. Fish are available from these efforts.
Third, conservationists have established procedures to check fish, from water to table, to be sure that what hits one’s plate in a restaurant or other commercial venue is a Chilean sea bass from sustainable populations, and not a fish whose death contributes to the overfishing and, perhaps, extinction of the species.
Al Gore employed a caterer who is responsible, and who used certified fish from sustainable populations.
So, those in the RightWing Spin Machine (RWSP) owe Al Gore an apology. When he acts responsibly, they accuse, falsely.
Ed Darrell Says:
July 29th, 2007 at 5:30 amVisit Ed Darrell
See this post, for example: http://scienceblogs.com/deltoid/2007/07/joining_the_dots_on_an_antigor.php
~J~ Says:
July 29th, 2007 at 7:23 amVisit ~J~
Ed,
You must have missed part four, in which the restaurant claimed it was a different kind of bass and not the one mentioned in the original article.