>So why do the crabs eat the meat in my nets or the fishermen's crab pots? I guess they only eat the stuff when it's presented in a manner suitable to them, not just dumped overboard. I didn't mean to imply that crabs, gulls, etc. don't eat any of the garbage thrown from boats. Obviously they will, at least stuff they want and can get. But crabs live in fairly specific zones and gulls haven't learned to use scuba gear. The point being made by the people studying the oxygen depletion in South Puget Sound and Hood Canal is that only a very small percentage of what people tend to toss off boats ends up actually being eaten by creatures like crabs, fish, gulls, etc. Most of it ends up supporting the increase of algae which, as was stated earlier, then help deplete the oxygen supply in the water when they die and decay. Again, nobody is claiming that garbage from boats is the main source of the problem. But it's a contributor, which is why the urging in this area that boaters refrain from tossing that banana peel or apple core over the side. ____________________ C. Marin Faure GB36-403 "La Perouse" Bellingham, Washington

In the anchorage in Wardrick Wells inthe Bahamas in the National Park they request you to throw edibles into the water to attract and feed the fish. This is the clearest cleanest water around. I guess nothing goes to waste. On 7/18/07, C. Marin Faure <cmfaure@earthlink.net> wrote: > >So why do the crabs eat the meat in my nets or the fishermen's crab > pots? I > guess they only eat the stuff when it's presented in a manner > suitable to > them, not just dumped overboard. > > I didn't mean to imply that crabs, gulls, etc. don't eat any of the > garbage thrown from boats. Obviously they will, at least stuff they > want and can get. But crabs live in fairly specific zones and gulls > haven't learned to use scuba gear. The point being made by the > people studying the oxygen depletion in South Puget Sound and Hood > Canal is that only a very small percentage of what people tend to > toss off boats ends up actually being eaten by creatures like crabs, > fish, gulls, etc. Most of it ends up supporting the increase of > algae which, as was stated earlier, then help deplete the oxygen > supply in the water when they die and decay. > > Again, nobody is claiming that garbage from boats is the main source > of the problem. But it's a contributor, which is why the urging in > this area that boaters refrain from tossing that banana peel or apple > core over the side. > > > > ____________________ > C. Marin Faure > GB36-403 "La Perouse" > Bellingham, Washington > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited. > -- Greg and Susan Han Allegria Krogen Whaleback #16

> In the anchorage in Wardrick Wells inthe Bahamas in the National Park > they request you to throw edibles into the water to attract and feed > the fish. Or the Bahamian Dishwashing trick of throwing your dishes and utensils overboard after dinner, let the critters clean them, then go diving for them in the morning. -- Jim Ague

It's the way the old sailors were washing clothes : in a net towed behind the boat, with a soap bar deep inside the clothes Bryan > > Or the Bahamian Dishwashing trick of throwing your dishes and utensils > overboard after dinner, let the critters clean them, then go diving for them > in the morning. > > -- Jim Ague > _______________________________________________ > http://lists.samurai.com/mailman/listinfo/trawlers-and-trawlering > > To unsubscribe send email to > trawlers-and-trawlering-request@lists.samurai.com with the word > UNSUBSCRIBE and nothing else in the subject or body of the message. > > Trawlers & Trawlering and T&T are trademarks of Water World > Productions. Unauthorized use is prohibited.