Super Trawler-Xenophon needs our help!

[Fishunter86 3]

After a conversation today with the office of Nick Xenophon (who is already against the trawler), I was advised to make our voices heard by emailing him at: senator.xenophon@aph.gov.auPlease make your voice heard, we as a majority may actually be able to stop this thing!

[samboman 319]

My mrs works with Nick quite often... Good Bloke Sambo

[Poppa Snake 1,399]

thanx F86email sent on behalf of kids & grandkidsAndrew

[urhookedfish 12]

Yes its certainly good to know that Nick is willing to move forward providing he has more support from the SA Public. I have sent him an email, and I have also sent an email to other prominent Pollies such as cough cough Paul Caica, Gail Gago, the legendary Michelle Lensink and others in an effort to get them to pull their fingers out of there arses.

[yorke_angler 0]

count me in! I just saw the size of this thing on the news tonight, f*** me! Who are they kidding saying it wont do any damage? That thing makes the tuna boats in Lincoln look like tug boats! :ohmy:

[adubz 0]

Email sent. Mr Xenophon is one of the only pollies i have respect for!

[spinyeel 2]

Email sent.

[RJ5023 230]

Done.Nick,Like many others I am totally opposed to the introduction of the Magiris to the Australian fishery.My opposition is based entirely around the fact that there will be approximately 18,000,000 kg of fish removed from Australian waters and then sold for $1 per kilogram.It seems nonsense to suggest that the local commercial fishing industry would find it viable to catch these fish if they could only be sold for $1/kg (after export).The Magiris operation is only commercially viable due to the huge volume of fish that it’s able to process, and it’s that very volume and the value attached to it that’s at the core of my opposition – regardless of any by-catch.This business plan relies on raping the ocean for low-value fish based on volume, and that type of thinking should have stopped last century. “Sustainable” and “$1/kg” don’t even belong in the same sentence.A quick visit to any Adelaide fish market would show that there is NO seafood available to our ‘battlers’ at anything like $1/kg. The nearest I can find is the $8/kg sewer-bred Basa from Vietnam.I am an Adelaide based recreational fisher and never fish outside of our Gulfs, but I regard the Magiris as an obscenity that should be banned. Thanks for your time.Regards,

[urhookedfish 12]

RJ that is an exceptional email. Would you mind if that was posted and shared on Facebook?I think alot of people would enjoy reading that!Brett

[RJ5023 230]

RJ that is an exceptional email. Would you mind if that was posted and shared on Facebook?I think alot of people would enjoy reading that!Brett

If it might help in any way go, for it Brett.I think that some people might be looking at this whole thing from the wrong direction (by-catch).Cheers,RJ

[Tacklebags 404]

Done.Nick' date='Like many others I am totally opposed to the introduction of the Magiris to the Australian fishery.My opposition is based entirely around the fact that there will be approximately 18,000,000 kg of fish removed from Australian waters and then sold for $1 per kilogram.It seems nonsense to suggest that the local commercial fishing industry would find it viable to catch these fish if they could only be sold for $1/kg (after export).The Magiris operation is only commercially viable due to the huge volume of fish that it’s able to process, and it’s that very volume and the value attached to it that’s at the core of my opposition – regardless of any by-catch.This business plan relies on raping the ocean for low-value fish based on volume, and that type of thinking should have stopped last century. “Sustainable” and “$1/kg” don’t even belong in the same sentence.A quick visit to any Adelaide fish market would show that there is NO seafood available to our ‘battlers’ at anything like $1/kg. The nearest I can find is the $8/kg sewer-bred Basa from Vietnam.I am an Adelaide based recreational fisher and never fish outside of our Gulfs, but I regard the Magiris as an obscenity that should be banned. Thanks for your time.Regards,[/i']

Hi RJ,Great email by the way.One thing we must remember is that mackeral are abundant and not excessively eaten by white middle class Aussies. This is the rationale for the prices we pay for the species we buy in local markets. In the main we utilise mackeral as bait for larger pelagics.This is not the case however for some other parts of the world as many of us know.My displeasure of this issue surrounds these facts primarily.1)I can find no peer reviewed science promoting a sustainable fisheries management regime which includes these trawlers.2)The potential for localised depletion due to sheer capacity in only a few net drops.3)The reason this ship is coming here is to provide a protein source for the human populations its fishing methods have environmentally destroyed.TB