This sure to raise a few eyebrows, is it just me, or are these guys startiong to fly of the rails, verging on the point of profound ridiculousness...

Proving themselves yet again to be a bunch of fanatical farkstix..

Anglers should really follow their tactics and create a video showing the importance of recreational fishing for future generations and how big this sport in Australia is.

Im sure a clip showing families fishing together with parents and grandparents teaching children about catch and release and general care for the environment will gain some positive interest with the right people.

obviously they have no morals what so ever!! thats just sad the low they have just gone to!! those diggers fought so we could use our oceans!

Since when have PEW had morals???  They can oil drilling etc but invest/obtain all their money from the same thing!

Disgusting use of diggers etc for their ends.  Bruce Ruxton would be rolling in his grave.

Fkn two faced hypocrytical wankers they are


From the Fishing World website....

THE US-based anti-fishing organisation Pew has admitted it pressured the Australian Government to lock anglers out of vast areas of the Coral Sea but would not take the same action in American waters because it would harm the US economy and disadvantage local fishermen.

The Pew comments have outraged Australian anglers, who stand to be seriously disadvantaged by federal Environment Minister Tony Burke's decision to support the American organisation's sustained anti-fishing campaign.

In a letter published in the August edition of the US-based Sport Fishing magazine, Pew director of federal fisheries policy Lee Crockett said closing American waters to fishing "wouldn't make sense – for fishing enthusiasts or the environment".

Crockett was responding to an editorial by Sport Fishing editor-in-chief Doug Olander predicting that Pew's no-fishing campaign in Australia's Coral Sea would result in similar moves to lock American anglers out of the Gulf of Mexico.

Crockett said Olander's assertion was "misleading and incorrect". He claimed the push to close the Coral Sea to all angling was supported by "hundreds of thousands of people throughout Australia and around the world – including recreational anglers".
Crockett went on to say that closing the Gulf of Mexico to fishing wouldn't make sense because these waters are a "major US economic driver".

"The Gulf offers excellent angling opportunities, and sport and commercial fishing generates billions of dollars and fresh seafood to much of the (American) nation," Crockett said.

The Pew campaign to lock-up the Coral Sea has resulted in Minister Burke proposing to ban all fishing in about 1.3 million square kilometres of water. Other closures proposed by Mr Burke include large areas off the southwest of WA and in South Australia.
The admission from Pew that it preferred to focus its lockout campaigns in non-American waters has confirmed suspicions held by local angling organisations that extremist environment groups like Pew sees Australia as an "easy target".

"These revelations back up what many Aussie anglers have been saying for a long time," a spokesman from Keep Australia Fishing, the peak activist group representing Australia's 5 million anglers, told Fisho.
"These people working for Pew in America don't want to disadvantage their own economy – but they don't mind that happening over here. They don't want to lock American anglers out of prime fishing areas – but they are happy to have exactly that happen to Aussie fishos. Why did our Government listen to these guys?"

Pew's Lee Crockett describes himself in his letter to Sport Fishing as an "avid angler" and provides details of the outstanding sportfishing he has enjoyed in the Gulf of Mexico. Australian anglers will no doubt be pleased to know that Crockett will be able to continue to enjoy his fishing exploits in his home waters while anglers over here endure the lockouts he and his Pew cohorts have seemingly convinced our Government we need to have!

Soon the Government will be wondering why foreign tourists dont come here anymore because there are no reefs to dive on, no fish to catch, no coral to view because of Marine reserves, and far too expensive to visit because of the carbon tax.

This issue is bigger than most realise and Marbles' excerpt above is indicitave of how these government and environmental bodies make their point. Complacency. We are not a wealthy group of people with agendas.

It doesnt make interesting news for a few people in the know to be interviewed about the affect the changes will make to the majorities' way of life. Its boring.

Just look at the recent media - 4 corners report on how cattle were inhumanely killed in Indonesia - the whole live export trade from Northern Australia is stopped the next day for months. 4 Corners reports on how the Clergy has hidden admissions of child abuse from one of their Priests for years in writing - Police may look into it.

All creatures great and small.......Who is the smallest?

"In a letter published in the August edition of the US-based Sport Fishing magazine, Pew director of federal fisheries policy Lee Crockett said closing American waters to fishing "wouldn't make sense – for fishing enthusiasts or the environment".

I agree marble the statement above by the guy kinda ruins all credibility for me, gotta ask why Australia's different if it doesn't make any sense for the ENVIORMENT in America

Cheers
 

Our pollies just got well rewarded. im gonna sit on my arse and do buggar all and be pissed off. 

Please forward the link below to friends which explains how the Gillard Labour proposals are flawed

Sea Change: Tim Winton’s view from the deep

Australian fishermen annually harvest much less than 1000 tonnes of yellowfin tuna from the Coral Sea while in the adjoining waters PNG licenses Asian fishermen to harvest 750,000 tonnes of which we then import $165 million as canned tuna.

http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=13555&page=2