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- From: carl@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU (Carl J Lydick)
- Newsgroups: rec.backcountry,sci.environment,talk.environment,alt.wolves
- Subject: Re: Alaska to shoot hundreds of wolves from airplanes
- Date: 21 Nov 1992 01:19:35 GMT
- Organization: HST Wide Field/Planetary Camera
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- References: <1992Nov20.183713.25800@news.arc.nasa.gov>,<1992Nov20.193758.7601@meteor.wisc.edu>
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- In article <1992Nov20.193758.7601@meteor.wisc.edu>, tobis@meteor.wisc.edu
- (Michael Tobis) writes:
- =This reminds me of the practice so common around here of
- =hatching vast quantities of fish in fish farms and then tossing them into
- =lakes for people to catch. Not only is this another "market distortion"
- =in the ecological balance, but it also strikes me as damned silly. Why not
- =just give the fish away, rather than throwing them in the lake to be caught
- =again? Then people who wanted to go out in a rowboat and dangle a string in
- =the water could do so to their heart's content without worrying about hooks
- =and bait and so on (not to mention mercury and dioxin, sigh...).
-
- You seem to have a rather odd idea of what sport fishing's all about. Yes,
- some people will go in armed with a virtually indestructable pole and line
- that's nearly an order of magnitude stronger than what the fish might be able
- to break. There are others who go fishing using light line. Rather than just
- pulling in the fish by main strength once it's been hooked, they have to take
- quite some time landing it, in order to avoid snapping the line.
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- Carl J Lydick | INTERnet: CARL@SOL1.GPS.CALTECH.EDU | NSI/HEPnet: SOL1::CARL
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- understanding of astronomy is purely at the amateur level (or below). So
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- organization responsible for it. If it IS related to VAX/VMS, you can try to
- hold me responsible for it, but my organization had nothing to do with it.
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