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They slaughter our whales, steal our tuna: Fuck off Japan! |
| by Hot Tuna |
2006-08-12 4:06 PM +0800 |
There has been outcry over claims Japanese fishing fleets are catching up to three times the legal quota and then hiding it. Meanwhile they slaughtered over 1000 endangered whales last summer - many of them pregnant. Whilst the government is happy to spend billions to build privately-run prison ships, burn boats and detain poor Indonesian fisherfolk, they are letting the gargantuan Japanese fishing industry get away with enormous international fraud.
Scientists at the Department of Agriculture Fisheries and Forestry are looking at claims that Japan has illegally taken $2 billion worth of southern blue fin tuna from Australian seas... |
In the early 1980s, Australia, Japan and New Zealand set up the Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) to manage the fishery. The nations also agreed on a quota system to prevent further depletion of tuna stocks, which had been damaged by overfishing. But a report by the CCSBT says Japan never stood by the deal.
Australia's fishing industry is angry about reports that Japan has illegally caught $2 billion worth of blue fin tuna in Australian waters over the past two decades.
"When it comes to marauding our oceans it seems the Japanese have no limits," Senator Bob Brown said. "They are complete cheats and it's time the Federal Government stood up to them."
A spokesperson for Fisheries Minister Eric Abetz says the scientific panel will report on its findings in October. Mr Abetz will not comment.
The details of the CCSBT's report have been revealed by the managing director of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Richard McLoughlin. He says Japan catches up to three times the legal quota and then hides it. Mr McLoughlin says thousands of tonnes of the fish coming into Japan go unreported.
He says the fish are being caught on Chinese or Thai boats and are then going through the "back door" into Japanese business houses.
The fish are being recorded as species like big eye tuna or northern blue fin and are then going onto the market place. "It has been an enormous international fraud that has reached all sorts of levels in Government at the present time," he said.
"Essentially the Japanese have stolen $2 billion worth of fish from the international community and have been sitting in meetings for 15 years saying that they're pure as the driven snow."
The allegations have angered Australia's tuna fishermen. "We take our signatory to these agreements seriously and to hear that one of the other parties to this agreement rorting the system to such an extent really leaves a sour taste in people's mouths," one said.
Richard McLoughlin says Japan has a 6,000 tonne national quota. But he says it illegally catches between 12,000 and 20,000 tonnes and hides it.
Mr McLoughlin has told the Australian National University in Canberra, it is an enormous international fraud that reaches all levels of the Japanese Government.
He says it is largely because the Japanese only ever allow Japanese observers on their boats.
"Essentially it was just plain fraud, it has been fraud," he said. "There were many thousands of tonnes a year of blue fin tuna that were coming in that were being unreported or were being caught on Chinese boats or Thai boats. [It was] coming in through the back door into the Japanese businesses houses that were going onto the marketplace that were recorded as big eye tuna or something like that."
The chief executive of the Tasmanian Fishing Industry Council, Neil Stump, says many fishermen are upset they have been abiding by quotas to protect the fishery, while tuna is being plundered illegally.
"There are a lot of people involved in the fishing industry out there who have been denied access to tuna because Australia realised there needed to be a rationalisation in the catches," he said.
"[They] did the hard yards and to find out that the Japanese have been overcatching to such a significant effect is really deflating actually." |
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SMH - Revealed: how Japan caught and hid $2b worth of rare tuna
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Greens seek action from PM over illegal tuna fishing claims |
| by The General |
2006-08-13 8:59 PM +0800 |
Greens leader Bob Brown is calling on the Prime Minister to address the issue of the illegal fishing of southern blue fin tuna with Japan.
Japan has been accused of robbing the international fishing community of $2 billion of the fish.
The managing director of the Australian Fisheries Management Authority, Richard McLoughlin, says Japan has a 6,000-tonne national quota and illegally catches between 12,000 and 20,000 tonnes per season and hides it.
Mr McLoughlin says it is largely because the Japanese only ever allow Japanese observers on their boats.
Senator Brown says it is time a "fair" trade agreement was put in place.
"We've got Prime Minister Howard right at the moment working on a free trade agreement with Japan, what about a fair trade agreement with Japan, one that's honest," Senator Brown said.
Senator Brown is also calling for Australian observers to be placed on Japanese fishing ships.
"We did close our ports to Japanese tuna fishing fleets for a couple of years at the turn of the century and that got an agreement, but it seems like nothing good or long-term has come out of that," he said.
"The Australian Government should insist that Australian observers be on the Japanese ships and that we get an independent observation going on here."
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200608/s1713606.htm
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Racism |
| by Mar Bucknell |
2006-08-14 1:50 AM +0800 |
Doesn't the 'they' of your headline bother you?
"Our" whales? "Our" tuna?
What are you claiming to own as "OUR" resources.
Please be clear about what you think belongs to YOU personally that a Japanese person is not allowed to own.
Until you say that, I suspect that you are a racist.
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Assume at will. |
| by Hot Tuna |
2006-08-14 2:23 AM +0800 |
Thankyou. It is an attention-seeking headline. I'm an Australian. The Japanese are ruthless.
Sure 'they' bother me. I'm an Australian. I'm a global citizen. I don't want one greedy fucker to steal my brothers fish.
Suspect and accuse me of racism - whatever you like.
They = The theiving ruthless Japanese-owned corporate bastatrds that steal fish from Australia - that rob from rest of the planet.
They = the Japanese government which supports the slaughter of endangered whales and dwindling fishy resources.
Our whales = the whales supposedly protected by IWC international laws. The hundreds of whales slaughted for profit under the guise of 'research' in Australia's Southern Ocean. The whales Australia should make better effort to protect.
Our Tuna = Big yummy fish which Australia, Japan and New Zealand set up the CCSBT to manage via a quota system to prevent further depletion of tuna stocks.
Japan never stood by the deal.
The fish belong to EVERYONE. We share them.
The Japanese are stealing them. From the world. And more specifically, from Australia - this nation.
So Japan can fuck off. And stop stealing our fish.
Grrrr....
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Um |
| by shayne |
2006-08-14 9:49 AM +0800 |
Don't you mean Japanese whale companies, rather than "the japanese". Most of "the japs" I know are as appaled as I am about eating whale and this reflects in the fact that verry few japanese in japan actually eat the damn things. Most younger japanese find it repulsive, which is why the govt is so desparate to market it and 'reinvent' the market. its probably got the same profile as kanga does here, ignoring the fact that kanga is actually about the closest to sustainable meat you'll get.
I understand your point, but be careful tarring all the japanese with one brush. I know some awesome Japanese greenies who have done more than most of us will ever do to protect the whale.
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No disrespect for Japanese people |
| by Hot Tuna |
2006-08-14 12:03 PM +0800 |
Although I cannot respect those involved with the Whaling industry. I couldn't care less what their nationality is.
It must be said that, in the same way "Australia" opposes whaling, "Japan" supports it. So in that sense - Japan
I work with Japanese people. I have nothing against Japanese people in general.
But the Japanese government, or anyone from Japan who supports killing these majestic animals, and those who profit from theiving our fish - well they can Fuck Right Off!
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headlines |
| by Ray |
2006-08-14 12:42 PM +0800 |
I wonder what the reactions would be to a headline reading:
"They lock up refugees, attack innocent civillians: Fuck off Australia!"
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Hot Tuna |
| by Mar Bucknell |
2006-08-15 1:24 AM +0800 |
You still haven't answered why Australians have a greater right to eat fish caught thousands of miles from where anyone actually lives, than Japanese do.
I tell you what, I'll agree with your right to catch every Patagonian toothfish you like, if you can get out in a tinny from Fremantle.
Ever wondered why "Patagonian" toothfish "belong" to Australia.
Ever looked up Patagonia in an atlas?
Ever looked where Macquarie and Heard Islands actually are?
They're nearer to Cape Town than they are to Fremantle.
I encourage you to go there.
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Mate |
| by Hot Tuna |
2006-08-15 1:41 AM +0800 |
"You still haven't answered why Australians have a greater right to eat fish caught thousands of miles from where anyone actually lives, than Japanese do."
Only because you didn't ask. And because I didnt say that. Nor did I imlpy it.
But since you ask:
I'll state that Australia has no more right than Japan over this particular fish stock.
Where did I say anything about Patagonian toothfish? You are changing the subject.
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Ours |
| by Mar Bucknell |
2006-08-16 12:54 AM +0800 |
Hot Tuna
You claimed 'our' whales, which are being caught in international waters.
So the question of 'our toothfish' intersects into the nationalism of your comment.
Explain what it is that ALL Japanese people are taking off you personally.
Your comment was essentially racist, in exactly the same way that the defence of 'our Patagonian toothfish' has been.
If you can present an environmental argument, I will listen. If you are going to post racist shit, I will be less inclined to take you seriously.
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Our Racist Whales. Our Racist Tuna |
| by Hot Racist Tuna |
2006-08-16 1:18 AM +0800 |
"Our" whales. Yes.
In the sense that "I" and "We" are obliged to protect them. We should at least. Considering where these whales hang out is Australian waters. We must look after these minkes, dude.
Before the Japanese kill them all. Did you know this season the Japanese slaughtered hundreds of preganant whales in their catch of over 1000 mammals of a threatened species!
By "Our" I mean both Australia's and Ours. Our earth. I own the contents of the planet. So do you.
"Explain what it is that ALL Japanese people are taking off you personally."
Why? I can't. They arent taking anything from me personally.
Except my right to protect the reality of oceanlife depletion.
Reminder: JAPAN is perpetually stealing tuna. JAPAN is slaughtering whales in Australia's Southern Ocean.
Not New Zealand or India or Indonesia: Its JAPAN. JAPAN. JAPAN. JAPAN!
Japan, in this instance, is raping our planet.
"Our" planet.
"Our" environment.
"Our" skies and trees.
"Our" minkes.
All OURS!
Dude, I am not posting racist shit.
Unless of course using a computer is racist. The silicon inside this box is mined by African children. Exploited by white global corporations. Dunno which country. But they'll get a serve too.
I'm trying to use the indymedia to publish enviro-agitprops. I'm defendin the fucking ecological rights our planet.
What are you doing?
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What is he doing? |
| by Observer |
2006-08-18 5:32 PM +0800 |
Arguing a stupid point...... and losing.
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