For you shark advocates, here's an important post from my friends at Beqa Adventure Divers in Fiji regarding protection for Grey Nurse Sharks (GNS) in Australia. It's a good follow up to a post I wrote in February of this year on these very sharks.NSW Grey Nurse Sharks: Bravo PADI!
I must say, I'm increasingly impressed by PADI Asia Pacific.The team of Mike Holme has been nothing short of stellar whenever we have contacted them for assistance and advice, and now I learn that Project AWARE has thrown its weight behind the campaign aimed at restoring adequate protection for New South Wales' highly vulnerable stocks of GNS after the latest shameful fiasco.
Please read this appeal and please, do act now.
This is industry leadership and I am particularly happy to find an excellent letter that contains all the recommendations I've posted here. This is terribly urgent and important, the more as all the science shows that for all practical purposes, depleted Shark stocks have no real chance of rebounding once they get wiped out as that would take decades if not centuries, i.e. way beyond any reasonable time frame - and I trust that I don't need to remind you of the consequences for the marine environment including the future of those ignorant fishermen!
The GNS stocks are literally on the brink and we simply cannot afford to get this wrong.
The only way we can avert this ecological catastrophe is to show those inept politicians and their rabid cronies from the Fishers and Shooters party that the public wants nothing to do with their appalling disregard of the health of the environment.
Please, do write a letter now.
Please send a copy to David at david.roe@projectaware.org.au and please, do mobilize your friends. Bloggers, please do re-post.
Submission close on Friday, August 26.
Once again, kudos to PADI.
Visit PADI Asia Pacific's website.
2 comments:
Thank you Richard!
The shocking fact regarding your original post is that shortly after you published it, the newly elected fisheries minister found it fit to unilaterally repeal all of those new protection measures!
This is about getting them re-instated and about protecting several more known aggregation sites.
My pleasure, Mike.
Well, not exactly my pleasure; it's never fun when you find that positive steps in conservation are being undone by politicians.
Disappointing that even in Australia, with all of its anti-whaling efforts, there are those less committed to protecting sharks.
Hopefully, people will respond globally to protect these aggregation sites.
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