Thanks, mate, appreciate to hear that SOMEONE got it (not that I doubted for a second that you would).

Unfortunately, what I squeezed in was only part of the story of a typical fisherman or child of one. I didn't include the beatings, the child rapes, the loan sharks, the glue- or lighter gas sniffing, the police harrassment, or the fact that periodically, you will have to rebuild your house because the government set fire to the slum you lived in to clear some land for expansion. All, sadly, facts of life in that world :-(

Bjorn

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> From: David Strike <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu 25/09/2003 3:48 PM GMT+08:00
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: [SCUBA-SE] Oz and Florida among WORLD's WORST Eco Diving
>
> On Thursday, September 25, 2003 4:40 PM, Reef Fish wrote:
>
> (snip)
> > Nah, I haven't read even 1/10 of this thread -- and don't intend to.
>
> Then you're doing yourself a dis-service!  :-)
>
> Go and read (one of) Bjorn's posts of the 24th about why shark finning is
> such a complex problem to solve.  (It's one of the most eloquent and
> compassionate appreciations of the problems that I've ever read/heard!)  :-)
>
> Strike
>