Man who frees trapped whale being charged by Department of Fisheries

[Colin_T]

A man who freed a baby whale that was trapped in a shark net is being charged by the Department of Fisheries for tampering with shark nets. Typical bloody idiot government department. Set up shark nets that catch and kill everything except for sharks, and someone saves an endangered whale and now that person is going to be charged. All whales are endangered and shark nets don't do anything to stop sharks.

See following link.

Man in tinny frees trapped whale calf before official help arrives

A whale calf caught in shark nets off the Gold Coast has been freed by a man in a tinny who stepped in befo...

www.9news.com.au

 

[JuiceBox52]

What the heck. That is so messed up

 

[Byron]

This is why I despair of the present day world. Money is all that matters, and to those who already have most of it. Use these nets regardless of their detrimental aspect because we can't afford to lessen our profits by using more responsiible methods. Overfish the salmon and the species become extinct, but no matter, the fishing companies have to make money today before the fish are gone. Build more pipelines to transport bitumen that no one really needs, and kill off humans and wildlife and poison the oceans, but that doesn't matter because the American and Canadian oil executives want another multi-million dollar bonus in their pockets and humanity can be damned.

 

[FallenPepper]

Oil does build American families along with all utilities. It's a necessary evil.

 

[Colin_T]

Oil isn't necessary in current times. We have numerous alternatives and we lived without crude oil for hundreds of thousands of years before we found black gold.

 

[FallenPepper]

Oil is a constant energy though and allows us to fuel mining sites that dig for those precious minerals that allow for alternative energy sources and living in a pre electric time would be awful for so many reasons

 

[FallenPepper]

Theres so much that goes into creating solar/wind/steam/energy converting devices along with all the slave/child labor too. They all do the same damage just in different ways, but nothing can be as easy as switching 100% to a new way of life. Look at the usa with the metric system

 

[Barry Tetra]

Sorry for him he was trying to save the whale and this happen.

 

[Fishmanic]

I imagine he probably damaged their net in freeing the whale and that may be why they have in issue with his freeing the whale.

 

[Colin_T]

They are charging him with 2 offences.
1) being too close to a whale.
2) being too close to shark nets.

People have set up a website to donate money to him in case he has to pay the fines, which could be more than $40,000

One of the politicians said they better not charge him with anything, and it is un-Australian to do so.