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Monday, Dec 1, 2008
Are We Being Good Stewards of God’s Aquatic Creatures?
Welcome to the weekly CVA blog! In it you will find famous quotes, news and commentaries.
1. Deep-Sea Species Fishing Being Monitored
2. Famous quote – Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890), leader of the Anglican Oxford Movement, "Father of Vatican II"
3. One Third of the World’s Fish Catch is Used for What?
4. Bible verse – Psalm 1:1-2
5. Advice for Obama on Overfishing
6. Australia Urges Japan to Stop Whale Hunt
1. Deep-Sea Species Fishing Being Monitored
Due to the depletion of mainstay commercial fish the deep-sea fish, such as the forkbeard, black scabbardfish, greater silver smelt and roundnose grenadier have become an attractive catch as trawlers switch from their regular fishing grounds. The European Commission is monitoring these Europe's exotic deepwater fish and has set a reduction in 2009 to range up to 50 percent from this year, followed by cuts of up to 100 percent in 2010.
To read the full article please search online for: Europe Cracks Down on Fishing for Deep-Sea Species
2. "...there is something so very dreadful, so satanic in tormenting those who have never harmed us, and who cannot defend themselves, who are utterly in our power, who have weapons neither of offence nor defense, that none but very hardened persons can endure the thought of it."
~ Cardinal John Henry Newman (1801 - 1890), leader of the Anglican Oxford Movement, "Father of Vatican II".
3. One Third of the World’s Fish Catch is Used for What?
One-third of the world's ocean fish catch is ground up and used to feed pigs, chickens and farm-raised fish. This is a potential problem for marine ecosystems and a waste of a resource that could directly nourish humans, since it accounts for 37 percent, or 31.5 million tons, of all fish taken from the world's oceans each year.
To read the full article please search online for: One-third of world fish catch used for animal feed
Industrial agriculture is not sustainable. It only causes suffering to God’s animals, contributes to human diseases and hunger, and to environmental degradation. It is imperative that humanity transitions to plant-based diet before it is too late and the harm irreversible.
4. (RSV) Psalm 1:1-2
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the wicked, nor stands in the way of sinners, nor sits in the seat of scoffers; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and on his law he meditates day and night.
God gave us the free will and the responsibility to choose who to listen and who to follow, dealing also with the consequences. When we choose to follow God's ways, we honor our Lord.
5. Advice for Obama on Overfishing
A report presented by US environmental and economic leaders and scientists urge President elect Barack Obama to end overfishing, and thus help protect from extinction many fish species that are at the verse of collapse. The report advised instituting a system known as catch shares, where the total amount of fish allowed to be taken in a given fishery is capped and fishermen are given a share of the fishery's quota, as opposed to the conventional way of trying to limit the number of fish taken, which is to shorten the length of the fishing season, which prompts fishermen to get the absolute maximum during whatever time they are permitted to fish.
To read the full article please search online for: Environmental advice for Obama: end overfishing
Although it would be a good measure to set quotas to stop overfishing, the individual lives of fish are still not taken into account. These God's creatures should have the same God-given right as any other creature to live free of exploitation. Moreover, the slow, torturing death that fish suffer when caught go against Christ's principles of compassion, mercy and peace.
6. Australia Urges Japan to Stop Whale Hunt
Japan's annual cull of whales, allegedly for scientific research, will begin in weeks. About 900 fin and minke whales will be harpooned experiencing unimaginable pain and suffering. In an attempt to stop the culling, Australia urged Japan to abandon its yearly whale hunt by launching its own scientific whaling study in the Southern Ocean to prove it was not necessary to kill the ocean mammals to study them. The Australian Environment Minister Peter Garrett said, "Modern-day research uses genetic and molecular techniques as well as satellite tags, acoustic methods and aerial surveys rather than grenade-tipped harpoons."
To read the full article please search online for: Australia presses Japan to end whale hunt .
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