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Wednesday Toon Roundup 3 - The Rest (Original Post) n2doc Aug 2017 OP
Perfect toon on overfishing dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
all toons planetc Aug 2017 #2
Love Danziger's artwork central scrutinizer Aug 2017 #3
Danziger's been my favorite forever. I (usually) love his take on things. nt Hekate Aug 2017 #9
Thank you for the cartoons Gothmog Aug 2017 #4
K & R ...... nt Wounded Bear Aug 2017 #5
That overfishing toon is dead on. SonofDonald Aug 2017 #6
I don't get the matresses one hueymahl Aug 2017 #7
Thanks. K&R TheBlackAdder Aug 2017 #8
kicktoons. . . . . . n/t annabanana Aug 2017 #10

SonofDonald

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6. That overfishing toon is dead on.
Wed Aug 23, 2017, 11:19 AM
Aug 2017

I was a trawl fisherman in the Bering Sea at the start of the Americanization of the fleet in 1987, only two factory trawlers so far, we delivered to one.

100 metric tons per day, easy, two years later 200+ boats were fishing, the stocks vanished, I quit and went back to a shore job.

A few years ago I saw a series following a small trawler, they pulled back a net with 15 tons in it, and they acted like it was Christmas, fish had dissapeared.

They are essentially vacuuming up the bottom to find fish, they've been doing that since day one with bottom nets designed to drag up everything.

You have no idea how close that toon is to the truth, I was there and saw it coming.

And that was 30 years ago.

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