You can paint all spearos as ignorant and past their used by date, but someone could do the same thing for all divers when a bad dive charter drags anchor through a sanctuary zone, or a newbie diver kicks the crap out of coral trying to get a photo. I personally don't think that would be fair.
OK SORRY- lets rephrase, the vast majority of spearos, the learners, the ordinary, the try hards!
not you or the "elite" but really you just want to kill a fish=success! Dead jacks that get binned after a competition, smelly public garbage bin too!
Personally, there comes a time where you must side with the fish; as they are the ones in trouble after millions of years without any help.....they don't need your help!
they just need protection from the predation and pollution by MAN!!!
Well think of it this way, you got 7billion humans now, be 9billion by 2050 on projection of current birth rate- lets look at countries in which spearfish was developed and used extensively- Greece, Spain, Dalamacia, Albania and Italy ask yourself what happened to the fish life in those places, have a look at thoses places if you see a fish over 3" it's exciting.....
If spearfishing grows here in australia, whats going to happen to our marine environment over time???
The only good thing about spearfishing is without tanks your limited to about 22m..........In 1901 the SMH had a article on a 1000lb black marlin wedged between the piers at Manly wharf, it was chasing Mackerel tuna/Kingfish. What happened to that fishery? But still lets give you freedom to continue in the face of extinction of these poor blighted creatures for whom you have no real love for except for a passion to stalk, hunt and kill, you see a nudi branch as beautiful and a snapper as a target...the way you change fish behaviour to divers is what really make this north and south- until the time you swap out the speargun for a camera(or go hunt goats pigs foxes/ aka feral animals- thats what I do with bow and arrow- but I hunt on privately own land using a deadly weapon, not on public property!)
Charter boats shouldn't be allowed to anchor period(unless its an emergency/breakdown)- they should dive off a live boat and have crew who can deal with that(and boats fitted with prop guards!). Better still moorings should be provided as it stops line fishermen poaching at night(they get hung up on close spaced mooring lines- have interconnect lines that make it even worse for poachers).
North and South!
we need a bill of rights internationale' which annexes all life on this planet- and gives stolen property back as well!
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