Fish Dumped at Landmark in Pollution Protest...

[Zim Hosein]

BERLIN (Reuters) - Environment activists piled thousands of dead fish at the foot of Berlin's biggest tourist attraction, the Brandenburg Gate, Tuesday in a demonstration against over-fishing and pollution in the North Sea.
"It's not the fish but the politics that really stink," said Bjoern Jettka, press officer for Germany's Greenpeace.

On a hot August day at peak tourist season, visitors to the famous neo-classical landmark were greeted by the smell of 11,000 rotting fish displayed on a 100 meter long table under banners bearing the slogan "Don't waste life!."

"We caught the fish in the North Sea on board the Greenpeace ship Esperanza using a standard 10 meter commercial fishing net, said Jettka. "The net has a huge pipe attached that sucks up fish indiscriminately like a giant vacuum cleaner."

The dead fish on display -- some 95 percent of the catch, including endangered species of octopus and sea urchin -- were those that commercial crews would normally throw back overboard for failing to meet traders' criteria.

"Some 700,000 tons of dead fish are thrown back into the sea each year -- this waste problem will affect future generations if no one takes action," said Greenpeace marine biologist Thomas Henningsen.

"Chancellor Gerhard Schroeder must hear our protest."

Demonstrators hoped the prominent site, flanked by luxury hotels and foreign embassies, would attract attention and urge Schroeder to pressure the European Union to reduce over-fishing and pollution in the North Sea.

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[BaboonGuy]

mmm sushi

 

[Iron Woode]

Cheers :beer:

 

[DnetMHZ]

I wish the Greenpeace people would throw themselves overboard.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
I wish the Greenpeace people would throw themselves overboard.

They are fighting for a good cause you know.

 

[Wuffsunie]

Protest by hypocrisy... interesting tactic.

 

[SagaLore]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
I wish the Greenpeace people would throw themselves overboard.

They are fighting for a good cause you know.

By killing more fish...

The ocean is HUGE. I don't think we're going to run out of fishing anytime soon. Just need to spread out more not to kill off targeted areas.

They should be spending their efforts on encouraging third world countries not to overpopulate themselves.

 

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by: SagaLore

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
I wish the Greenpeace people would throw themselves overboard.

They are fighting for a good cause you know.

By killing more fish...

The ocean is HUGE. I don't think we're going to run out of fishing anytime soon. Just need to spread out more not to kill off targeted areas.

They should be spending their efforts on encouraging third world countries not to overpopulate themselves.

Not saying I agree with their tactics. Think of it as doing the wrong things for the right reasons

 

[KB]

They killed 11,000 fish just to make a stink? Thats stupid. Their point is valid, we will directly or indirectly cause many fish to go extinct if we pollute and/or kill less desirable fish. Those less desirable fish play a part in the ecosystem and are usually the food of the more desirable fish. The problem I have with this demonstration is not the message by their methods.

 

[halik]

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Protest by hypocrisy... interesting tactic.

not necessarily... more like a demonstation of whats going on

 

[Kenazo]

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Protest by hypocrisy... interesting tactic.

That's like PETA's Mary Beth Sweetland who protests any form of animal medical research, or using animal products in any way, yet uses insulin (Derived from pig pancreas)

She concedes that her medicine "still contains some animal products -- and I have no qualms about it ... I don't see myself as a hypocrite. I need my life to fight for the rights of animals."

 

[Wuffsunie]

Originally posted by: halik

Originally posted by: Wuffsunie
Protest by hypocrisy... interesting tactic.

not necessarily... more like a demonstation of whats going on

If they hadn't killed the fish deliberately for the protest, I might agree. If they had collected some of that 700 000 tons themsevles, instead of making their own totally pointless mess, then it wouldn't be hypocrisy to me.

 

[Chadder007]

WTF??? The ones they catch and throw back are mostly alive....they killed all of these fish and then polluted themselves by throwing the fish onto land to which will probably be thrown in a landfill instead of back into the ocean where they would break down anyway and be eaten away by other sea creatures... D@mn idiots.

 

[woowoo]

Originally posted by: Shockwave

Originally posted by: dnetmhz
I wish the Greenpeace people would throw themselves overboard.

They are fighting for a good cause you know.

🙂

 

[booger711]

Originally posted by: Chadder007
WTF??? The ones they catch and throw back are mostly alive....they killed all of these fish and then polluted themselves by throwing the fish onto land to which will probably be thrown in a landfill instead of back into the ocean where they would break down anyway and be eaten away by other sea creatures... D@mn idiots.

that greenpeace