tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post8700838468665279945..comments2024-03-25T12:38:37.998+12:00Comments on The Best Shark Dive in the World!: New South Wales - WTF?Andrew Cumminghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14675497080700112390noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-37502681340871225792013-03-15T20:57:40.689+12:002013-03-15T20:57:40.689+12:00BRUVS in Oz e.g. here - I trust you know how to ge...BRUVS in Oz e.g. <a href="http://www.aims.gov.au/docs/research/monitoring/seabed/video-monitoring.html" rel="nofollow">here</a> - I trust you know how to get in touch with them?<br /><br />I see that you are from SA and understand why you may be specially interested in those nets.<br /><br />But in terms of conservation priorities, they appear really rather irrelevant when compared to the <i>realDaSharkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-67035620577782449882013-03-15T01:24:47.325+12:002013-03-15T01:24:47.325+12:00Apples and oranges may be different, but if you th...Apples and oranges may be different, but if you throw them both into the ocean they become interlinked! :-)<br /><br />I am troubled that I can't find any more publications since the 1996 one on bycatch in NSW nets. This could be because 1) I haven't spent enough time searching (admittedly), 2) There is so much bycatch no one wants to publish it, or 3) There is so little being caught itMegalobombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667817888766990483noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-49098855155762088632013-03-14T13:46:57.678+12:002013-03-14T13:46:57.678+12:00Knock yerself out Megalobomb! :)
Look, that's...Knock yerself out Megalobomb! :)<br /><br />Look, that's really apples & oranges.<br /><br />I hope you agree that no-take MPAs work in preserving biodiversity and that any weakening of those protection measures is bad - yes?<br /><br />The nets are of course archaic and the bycatch is highly deplorable - but having said that, I really doubt that their effect, disturbing as it may be, DaSharkhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06787762757245289307noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-36324352.post-33390130409244181722013-03-14T00:29:21.576+12:002013-03-14T00:29:21.576+12:00I really do hate to be a Debbie Downer, but what e...I really do hate to be a Debbie Downer, but what exactly do these marine protected areas "protect"? They are all flanked by the 49 shark nets along the NSW coast (Krough & Reid 1996) which incidentally catch and kill grey nurse sharks, fiddler rays, yellowfin and bluefin tuna, kingfish, jewfish, some of those mean sharks, turtles, dugongs, a few whale calves...etc. Is there Megalobombhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04667817888766990483noreply@blogger.com