Down with the bottom feeders VII

Sadly, this typist was busy typing yesterday and was unable to join Coral Clad and her Deep Seas Trawling Moratorium friends for their protest against the Canadian government's refusal to support a moratorium.

Word has that they took to the streets with their placards and eminently reasonable arguments against hoovering the seabed of its life and vitality.

They are trying to get the ear of Canadian Fisheries Minister Loyola Hearn who has closed his ears to their arguments. He has said Canada will not support a proposed international moratorium on the trawling of the high seas. In so doing, he has parted ways with Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Norway, the United States, The Gifted Typist and influential central Canadian blog Reject the Koolaid who have all come out in support of the ban.

Coral Clad and her friends fear that sea habitats and marine life are being destroyed by bottom trawling. They want Canada to support a United Nations vote for a moratorium in December.

Even fishermen are in favour of a moratorium. In the Chronicle-Herald, Wayne Eddie is quoted as saying that to get 100,000 pounds of fish by trawling, a fisherman must throw 750,000 pounds of unwanted species and refuse overboard. "I’ve seen them floating on the water for miles."

Time is running out. The Gifted Typist encourages other typists to email Loyola Hearn to protest his decision against the moratorium.