Tuesday, April 13, 2010

Sailfish for sale in Giant Kota Damansara

An aside from dyslexia:  this caught my eye (http://www.fishing.net.my/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=19652&whichpage=1) about a sailfish being sold on the 'fresh' fish counter of Giant Kota Damansara.

One:  Does it taste like sawdust when cooked wrongly?

two: how does one cook sailfish?

three:  buy it for the pets?

four: Its an apex predator like the shark, shouldn't we protect it like the sharks?

five: whose pockets are being lined by delaying the gazetting of protective laws against commercial harvesting of apex predators such as this sailfish?

six: Isn't it more lucrative and sustainable for the local community to take fishing 'kakis' (people, usually men, who are nuts over fishing) to Catch-Tag-n-Release these predators than commercially hunt-n-harvest them?

seven: very little information is known about sailfish biology, distribution, ecology, reproduction, etc to decide whether it is sustainable and viable to commercialize sailfish harvesting. Who has these facts n figures to back up the claim that we can catch-n-sell them?

Think deeply and reflect.

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