Wednesday, May 31, 2006
A Hand up, not hand outs
We want a hand up, not a hand out.
Accept responsibility for your actions.
We want to be masters of our own destiny. If you can't manage the continental shelf then hand it over and give us the ways and means to manage it.
It is much easier and cheaper to just throw EI chump change at Atlantic Canada's problems which DFO and the Federal Government of Canada have created through the mismanagement of the continental shelf by allowing draggers to destroy the bottom feeding and breeding grounds and giving away quotas as incentives to further Ontarios manufacturing industry on the world market, Allowing the Seal herd s to explode in such a way that they have become a menace all to the detriment of Atlantic Canada. This problem will not go away in one year of EI it has to be fixed not sweep under the EI carpet. There needs to be some real poll-itical Will to fix one of the worlds greatest food sources for all time not just untill all of the NL'ians outmigrate or get taxed and fee'd out of the fishery by DFO to try and hide their mistakes.
This isn't a quick fix this is a problem that took years to create through mismanagement and will take as many if not more years to rectify. As can be seen with the moritorium being ongoing since 1992 with no appeciable recovery of the continental shelf as a breeding feeding ground for fish.
Now if this EI money were taken and used to employ the seasonal workers to work towards establishing Aquaculture projects or making manmade reefs for the fish to have a place to breed and feed without being dragged from the bottom by bull dozing dragger/trawlers or scavengers of the sea Seals which has been mismanged to the other extreme whre by they have become so abundant they are starving to death and having to migrate further south to find food in order to survive.
Stop the Drag Net.
Implement funding to retrieve all of the lost drift net and gill net fish land mines. Implement a series of laws to make losing gill nets and drift nets prohibitive.
Accept responsibility for your actions.
We want to be masters of our own destiny. If you can't manage the continental shelf then hand it over and give us the ways and means to manage it.
It is much easier and cheaper to just throw EI chump change at Atlantic Canada's problems which DFO and the Federal Government of Canada have created through the mismanagement of the continental shelf by allowing draggers to destroy the bottom feeding and breeding grounds and giving away quotas as incentives to further Ontarios manufacturing industry on the world market, Allowing the Seal herd s to explode in such a way that they have become a menace all to the detriment of Atlantic Canada. This problem will not go away in one year of EI it has to be fixed not sweep under the EI carpet. There needs to be some real poll-itical Will to fix one of the worlds greatest food sources for all time not just untill all of the NL'ians outmigrate or get taxed and fee'd out of the fishery by DFO to try and hide their mistakes.
This isn't a quick fix this is a problem that took years to create through mismanagement and will take as many if not more years to rectify. As can be seen with the moritorium being ongoing since 1992 with no appeciable recovery of the continental shelf as a breeding feeding ground for fish.
Now if this EI money were taken and used to employ the seasonal workers to work towards establishing Aquaculture projects or making manmade reefs for the fish to have a place to breed and feed without being dragged from the bottom by bull dozing dragger/trawlers or scavengers of the sea Seals which has been mismanged to the other extreme whre by they have become so abundant they are starving to death and having to migrate further south to find food in order to survive.
Stop the Drag Net.
Implement funding to retrieve all of the lost drift net and gill net fish land mines. Implement a series of laws to make losing gill nets and drift nets prohibitive.
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