Will the high price of oil save our fish stocks?

[Eirmail]

Overfishing is a huge problem, is the solution to this coming from the most unlikely sources - The high price of diesel?

news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,30400-1316972,00.html

[Green_Bear]

Belgium’s favourite late-night snack has become a political hot potato.
Amid evidence that the price of a cornet de frites at the ubiquitous chip stands had risen while potato prices had fallen, the government asked competition officials last month to investigate. The move provoked a fierce reaction from fryers, who blamed rises in heating gas and vegetable oil prices.
The frites flap is not an isolated example. Across Europe, politicians are turning to antitrust tools in the face of consumer anger over the price of staple foodstuffs and evidence that they are rising faster than the commodities used to make them. >>>>

Europe chips away at food prices
money.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=566519

National crisis in Belguim

[The_Unwelcome_Guest]

So the fish will get cheaper but the chips will get more expensive…

Swings and roundabouts!

[watch_wait]

Preventing collapse of fish stocks may be a tempoary effect of rising oil prices.
But I fear that before there is any real recovery of stocks Nuclear powered factory ships will start fishing our sea’s.

[Green_Bear]

French fishermen have taken very direct action in protest at record fuel costs. The oil price is rising as fast as their profits are falling, and they say millions of euros in government aid would not be enough to compensate them. Eric Loir, a protesting fisherman, said: “If this goes on for weeks, there will be more serious action and it will cost money, but if this is what they want, we will do it, we have had enough.”

In Brittany, fishermen felt compelled to commit daylight robbery, seizing imported and french produce alike at a supermarket. They are ignoring union calls for an end to a national fishing strike, insisting the price of diesel must go down by almost half.

Albert Chaussée, director of the supermarket Leclerc of Plérin, said:
“These people live thanks to us! For the last 20 years we have been buying their fish!”

They did not flee far with their booty. Instead they handed it all away to motorists in the car park. There were similar scenes throughout France. Fishermen have also blockaded ports and oil refineries nationwide.

French fuel fears foster fresh fish fury
euronews.net/index.php?page= … 826&lng=1#

[contemporary]

not a chance, cod is far to tasty!!!

[MortgageBroker]

i reckon it’ll result in expensive fish before it ever saves the ocean fauna.