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Interesting and insightful comments on Antarctica.
https://www.rnz.co.nz/programmes/the-detail/story/2018823576/muscling-up-and-moving-in-on-the-ice
Hemmings [Dr Alan Hemmings, a Canterbury University specialist on Antarctic governance] details the upgrades to the stations, including New Zealand’s planned $344 million Scott Base, but also the “tooling up” of countries in terms of investment in defence equipment so that it can be used on the continent.
The Royal New Zealand navy, for example, has a new fleet tanker, the Aotearoa, which is ice strengthened
It supports, in a formal sense, the civilian presence there, our civilian presence and the Americans’. But … would that argument have washed if we had seen the Chinese navy or indeed anybody else’s navy build an ice-strengthened tanker and operate in the Antarctic? I think a lot of people would think there was a nefarious purpose behind that.”
Hemmings says he is annoyed by people’s “passivity” over the continent and fears that the system that governs it is at risk of being hollowed out.
“Antarctica is the only one of our continents where we haven’t killed each other. We haven’t had a war in the Antarctic.”
But he warns that it is no longer protected just by its remoteness, harshness and size.
“Such is our ingenuity that we can threaten everything … as we know from climate change.’
‘It supports, in a formal sense, the civilian presence there, our civilian presence and the Americans’. But … would that argument have washed if we had seen the Chinese navy or indeed anybody else’s navy build an ice-strengthened tanker and operate in the Antarctic? I think a lot of people would think there was a nefarious purpose behind that.”
(Note above) – The Royal New Zealand navy, for example, has a new fleet tanker, the Aotearoa, which is ice strengthened.
We are a cash-strapped nation. An ice-strengthened tanker is big spending for us. Is this to combat nations’ over-fishing the Patagonian toothfish, or sea bass, Chilean sea bass? Or for other strategic reasons?
Antarctic toothfish can live up to fifty years, grow relatively slowly and reproduce late in life. These characteristics make them highly vulnerable to overfishing. At the same time, the fishers target the largest and oldest individuals which are likely to be the greatest breeders. Fishery impacts on the ecosystem.
The Last Ocean New Zealand |
http://www.lastocean.org › Commercial Fishing
https://goodfishbadfish.com.au/fish/patagonian-toothfish/
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