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The Gippsland Lakes debacle : Comments
By Anthony Amis, published 8/3/2018In 2015 the Victorian Auditor-General delivered a damning report on the mismanagement of Victoria's 10 Ramsar-listed wetlands.
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You trying to suggest that fish from the Gippsland Lakes swim up to the tropics to feed the islanders. What utter garbage.
Then you bemoan the fact that that islanders are eating rice, as if that is caused by a lack of fish, & attempting to tie that to the Gippsland lakes. Again utter garbage. Perhaps you haven't noticed this type of misrepresenting the truth is now recognised as lies, perhaps the reason for the reduction of green votes.
The fact is islanders, just like us are lazy. Rice is their McDonalds, quick & easy.
I spent quite a bit of time in the islands, & know many well. I was once offered a meal on one in about 1976. Rice with Curry paste for main course, & rice with powdered milk & sugar for desert.
This was on Nugerria atoll, with it's 3000 nautical square miles of lagoon, & 90 nautical miles of reef, 200 nautical miles from the nearest town. It has enough fish to provide a cannery, as well as feed it's 200 people. However fishing is work, & requires organisation & planning.
No bait shop, so you first have to net some bait fish. Then you have to canoe to a good entrance channel, where the blue runners, their favourite fish, are likely to gather. No refrigeration, so you have to do it all again tomorrow, or just throw some rice in a pot. This is of course the fault of the people of the Gippsland Lakes, if we are silly enough to believe your ranting.
Do try to be more truthful in your posts, if you want to be taken seriously.