Pacific Spirit Marine Institute
Thursday, May 29, 2008
Fish poachers have stolen an 8kg hapuku that was pumped full of clorine, formalin and peroxide from the National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research aquaculture center at Ruakaka.
What were they thinking? Not the poachers; the scientists that injected all those chemicals into the fish! Other fish taken from the center’s quarantine and disease investigation unit were Kingfish that had been treated with a sex reversal drug, making them queenfish?
Were the thieves that hungry? They had to top 2 metres of barbed wire to get to the fish giving a whole new meaning to baiting the barbed hook!
Meanwhile…
Yet another right foot has washed up near Vancouver. It’s the 4th one now in less than a year. The 4th right foot mind you. Terry Smith, B.C.’s chief coroner cautioned against jumping to any conclusions such as foul play. Smith says, “This may very well be nothing more than the results of natural process of decomposition in water and the combined affects of predation by aquatic scavengers.”
Meaning no disrespect for the loved ones of those formerly attached to these right feet, but why would a scavenger have a left foot preference?
All 4 right feet were wearing socks and men’s running shoes. What happened to the left feet? I wish my first question would have been what happened to the former owners of the right feet, but sadly, in this day and age, it was not.
By the way…
Scientists have come up with a new environmentally friendly bomb. It’s nice to know they best minds in the world are working on protecting the environment. Keep up the good work gang. We could certainly use fewer toxins in the environment!
Labels: Environment, Hapuku, Kingfish
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Poached Kingfish; Receipe for Disaster! Try the Hapuku instead.
