Faro - catching Gannets (1 Viewer)

Andy Adcock · Oct 22, 2017

Can't believe they're allowed to do this still, so much for EU protection of breeding birds.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41698293

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StuartReeves · Oct 22, 2017

The Faroes are not in the EU and anyway there is a similar traditional hunt in the Hebrides.

Andy Adcock · Oct 22, 2017

StuartReeves said:
The Faroes are not in the EU and anyway there is a similar traditional hunt in the Hebrides.

I assumed that as a state of Denmark it would be in the EU but on checking, I see that you're right?

Regardless of what we think about the 'custom', 500 young Gannets from one colony is a lot of birds

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Mono · Oct 22, 2017

2000 are taken every year off Scotland.

http://www.scotsman.com/news/uk/police-probe-death-threats-to-the-guga-hunters-of-ness-1-4549042

Farnboro John · Oct 22, 2017

andyadcock said:
I assumed that as a state of Denmark it would be in the EU but on checking, I see that you're right?

Regardless of what we think about the 'custom', 500 young Gannets from one colony is a lot of birds

A

The only question worth posing: is it sustainable?

Actually it isn't the only worthwhile question, a better or additional one would be: is it measured and regulated to ensure it is and remains sustainable?

Other than that, compared to the nightmare rape of the oceans in general and bearing in mind it has no bearing sustainable or not on the survival of the Northern Gannet, its pretty minor in the scheme of things. But have the (insert pejorative here) Faroese stopped their appalling, barbaric, prehistoric grind yet?

John

Hauksen · Oct 22, 2017

Hi John,

Farnboro John said:
The only question worth posing: is it sustainable?

Actually it isn't the only worthwhile question, a better or additional one would be: is it measured and regulated to ensure it is and remains sustainable?

A new threat to Gannets that might be more serious: Chinese fishers.

Here is a German article on "fishers" apparently going after Gannets exclusively. In 2013, the Mauritanian coast guard found an estimated catch of 95,000 Gannets on board of a single Chinese trawler:

http://www.dda-web.de/downloads/tex...menacker_2014_spurensuche_vor_mauretanien.pdf

Another German magazine, "Vögel", subsequently published photos from the hold of what I suppose must have been another trawler, so the fear that Gannets are industrially exploited as a food source by the hundred thousands seems to be quite real.

Regards,

Henning

Andy Adcock · Oct 29, 2017

Hauksen said:
Hi John,

A new threat to Gannets that might be more serious: Chinese fishers.

Here is a German article on "fishers" apparently going after Gannets exclusively. In 2013, the Mauritanian coast guard found an estimated catch of 95,000 Gannets on board of a single Chinese trawler:

http://www.dda-web.de/downloads/tex...menacker_2014_spurensuche_vor_mauretanien.pdf

Another German magazine, "Vögel", subsequently published photos from the hold of what I suppose must have been another trawler, so the fear that Gannets are industrially exploited as a food source by the hundred thousands seems to be quite real.

Regards,

Henning

That's pretty much it for the Northern Gannet if the Chinese start eating them as they eat everything else.

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