TUNA CAUGHT IN SHALLOW WATERS

Fisheries authorities in East New Britain said there were several possibilities that led to a big school of yellow fin tuna entering very shallow waters in Kokopo early this week.

People living at Vunapope were able to catch more than 30 big fish, some measuring more than a metre and weighing 50 kilograms.

There were so many fish and most could not move out quickly. People were able to catch them at a very shallow part of the beach.

Fisheries advisor said they must have been chasing a school of bait fish and ended up on Omorong Beach.

There may have been a sudden change in temperature or their aquatic environment. They may have been avoiding fishing boats.

FILIPINO CONCERN ON MINING AND TUNA

Please read the report on PNG Attitude expressing concern on the Deep Sea Mining in the Magadus Square. Please click:

Philippines tuna firms to open cannery in PNG

The report below may have added extra knowledge to the migratory path of the tuna.

It traces the path from Atlantic and Indian Oceans to the Pacific. Is the report referring to the yellow fin tuna?

Surely Mr Espejo is not seeking to show that the tuna breeding grounds are in the Sulu Sea in the South West Philippines and not in the Magadus Square of Papua New Guinea. Please click:

MAGADUS SQUARE TUNA BREEDING

Philippines tuna firms to open cannery in PNG

EDWIN ESPEJO | Hybrid News Ltd

TWO PHILIPPINE TUNA COMPANIES have hooked up with Thailand’s Thai Union Corporation to establish Majestic Seafood in Papua New Guinea which will open in two months.

 

The $37.6 million, 200-metric ton capacity canning plant, PNG’s largest, will bring to eight the number canneries in tuna-rich PNG.

Thai Union is the world’s second largest tuna canner and Thailand is also the world’s largest canned tuna producer.

PNG recently said it had overtaken the Philippines as the world’s second biggest producer of canned tuna. Majestic Seafoods will bring the total daily canned tuna production in PNG to more than 1,200 metric tons.

The Philippines produces an average of 750 metric tons of canned tuna a day.

Filipino tuna fishing companies began to establish operations in PNG in the late 1990s following declining tuna catches in Philippine waters. The first tuna canning plant opened in 1997.

At the turn of the century, PNG began restricting tuna fishing within its territorial waters. Today, it only allows access to its fishing grounds if foreign companies set up canning and processing plants.

PNG lies in the middle of the tuna migratory path that stretches from the Atlantic and Indian oceans and ends up in the Sulu Sea southwest of the Philippines.

Meanwhile, the Deep Sea Mining Campaign says PNG’s fishing industry could be jeopardised by mining for gold and copper in the Bismarck Sea.

The world’s first deep sea mining project, Nautilus Minerals’ Solwara 1, is poised to begin but is facing mounting opposition in coastal communities.

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GOD, RACE AND MORALITY

There is a wonderful report on PNG Attitude written by Ganjiki Wayne with a comment by Michael Dom on the evolution of culture, morality and God awareness. Please click:

Origin, black v white, & racism: God has the answers

It should scratch us all where we itch particularly on the perceptions of race and superiority.

There has been a long journey of the human race in perceptions that one race is lower than we are and can be treated differently than we would have others do unto us.

Hitler believed in the superiority of the Aryan race. The Nazis produced a cephalic index that measured the angle between the jaw line and the forehead.

Aryans had a high index. Slavs were claimed to have a low index caused by jutting jaws and sloping foreheads.

Being neanderthal, they were sub-human and could be exterminated in the gas chambers.

Slavery grew on the belief that the black races of Africa were not human. Families could be taken and broken up like a cow and calves.

They need not be given faith awareness as they had no souls.

In so many countries, the land was taken from the original inhabitants on the basis that they had no houses and cultivation which showed they wasted the land.

Early European settlers to Australia believed that the aborigines were non-human and deserved to live and own land no more than the kangaroos. The land was 'terra nullius' or no man's land.

In some traditional clans in the world, their name means 'humans'. Does this mean that they believe that all other people are sub-human?

Or is it that in the isolation of their valley, they think they are the only humans who exist in the world?

There has been the belief among old timers in this Papua New Guinea that Tok Pisin is a lower form of language only able to express lower level ideas.

As a teacher of Tok Pisin at the RAAF School of Languages for 14 years, I found that those who undervalued Tok Pisin were often uneducated and not very bright.

That is a racism that has been part of PNG society. It is saying that the black race in this country can not think in abstract terms.

Skill in technical Tok Pisin required the speaker to break ideas down to component parts in the blink of a nerve impulse.

We need to consider the existence of the narrative parable style in many traditional societies. Jesus spoke in parables. He had a high intellect but explained in concrete terms.

We see another form of racism in the HIV/AIDS response in the hidden belief by foreign advisors that all PNG men are violent like wild dogs.

One supposedly official report stated that 60% of PNG men have been found to participate in gang rape at least once. Obviously wild animals.

There is a report in circulation for centuries from one Roman officer to his replacement in Britain telling him that the Britons can not be trained and can perform only the most menial tasks. Cheeky.

Ganjiki Wayne ventures into the origins of morality. Is morality man-made or God-made?

This is verging on a touchy subject in Papua New Guinea with the gay and lesbian propaganda that laws of sexuality are man-made, subject only to change.

BABY FISH DIE AT FEEDING TIME

I once lived in Maryborough, Queensland and was the Biology teacher at the Boys' High School.

At regular intervals, there would be large quantities of fish die in the Mary River, usually on a Friday.

Thousands of fish would be washed up on the high tide.

The reason was simple. The meat works was located on the river bank in the town. Every day, workers would throw the rubbish meat and bones into the river.

Hundreds of thousands of fish would be waiting in the river for the offal meat.

But on Friday afternoon, the meatworks would be cleaned with barrels of detergent and acid that would be sluiced in thousands of litres down into the river.

The acid water would be poured on to thousands of waiting fish that died within 30 minutes.

Many were juvenile fish that bred in the estuarine mangroves of the Mary River.

When outflow of poisons from the meat works coincided with a high or king tide, fish deaths would extend to the river mouth, 30 kilometers down stream.

Fish would be coming up the river on the high tide and meet a wall of poison coming down the river.

The destruction of fish in the Ramu, Sepik and Magadus Square will be on such a scale within a decade.

But the tuna that breed are international fish.

Magadus Square should have a world heritage listing. Please click:

MAGADUS SQUARE TUNA BREEDING HUB

Herein is set out basic principles of estuarine ecology that high school students in Australia would learn.

HALF SMART VIEW OF PAPUA NEW GUINEA

I feel the need to defend Papua New Guinea from a half smart and unkind report on PNG Attitude by one Susan Merrell BA MA whatever. Please click:

Democracy, custom & the elasticity of the Melanesian Way

She has written on the dichotomy in Papua New Guinea between the big man syndrome, democracy and the Melanesian Way.

She seems to want the Melanesian Way to be disbanded and replaced with some foreign model.

Surely this is not an anti-family and anti-culture message. The nation has had enough of that at the hands of foreign lesbians.

She writes as if she has only just discovered the phenomenon in the whole wide world.

There are inconsistencies in Papua New Guinea as there have been in every developing nation and enshrined in various forms in every developed nation.

From the Middle Ages and before, we saw the rise of Christianity, burning of witches, torture of heretics and slavery. These show dichotomy across the Christian world.

There is more blood and cruel inconsistency here than anything the Melanesian Way could muster. There is also kindness buried not so deep in Papua New Guinea.

With the rise of parliamentary democracy in England, we saw the continuing genocide of the Irish and hunting down of Catholic priests for hanging, drawing and quartering.

That is most dichotomous. Not to mention slavery in a Christian country. Indigenous people in far lands were slaughtered.

In the Christian world, we find same sex marriage. Moslem nations led by the peace of Allah witness killing of the innocents by suicide bombers.

All such events make the Melanesian Way, big man syndrome, democracy and Christianity seem like a Sunday picnic.

Susan, please give PNG a fair go. You are making the rocking chair warriors of PNG Attitude excited. It is not good for their dicky tickers.

Some of them like to think that PNG has declined because they left.

MAGADUS SQUARE TUNA BREEDING HUB

Please read the report below that comes from the PNG newspaper Post Courier and is three years old.

It is a report on the tuna breeding grounds in the Magadus Square of the north coast of Papua New Guinea under threat from deep sea mining.

Poisons from the Marengo and Frieda River mines will pollute the Ramu and Sepik Rivers as was the Fly River poisoned by OK Tedi.

Villagers have the right to be angry. Does this country never learn?

Tuna breeding ground worries - Post-Courier Online

www.postcourier.com.pg/20081111/news06.htmCached

11 Nov 2008 – Tuna breeding ground worries ... last Friday Mr Semri said

of particular concern to him was the Magadus Square-the country's tuna hub.

The report above refers to Mr Semri expressing concern that contamination of tuna will affect the tuna industry and sales in Europe.

Poisons tend to accumulate in the tissues of young fish.

Please read the report we have posted to show the ecological link between the Ramu and Sepik Rivers with the Magadus Square.

The rivers provide the estuarine nurseries for fish that hide among the mangroves and eat the nutrients washed down the rivers and out to sea. 

Small fish come up with the tide and return on the ebb tide. In the Magadus Square, the baby fish and pollutants will follow the currents.

Without the river nutrients, the Magadus Square is dead. Mining will provide poisons, change in temperature and acidity/alkalinity of the water and send large currents of chemical water out to sea.

Small tuna will gather to eat the river nutrients and will often take in a large mass of poisoned water. Fish will die en masse.

Students of Biology study the ecology of the estuarine environment. Please click:

DEEP SEA MINING IN MAGADUS SQUARE

ONLY TECHNICAL SUPPORT FROM FOREIGN ADVISORS

Developing nations are taking a huge risk in allowing foreign advisors to promote foreign subversive values in a national HIV/AIDS response.

Once they take up residence, there is nothing to stop them, especially if they control funding for the related foreign aid.

In Papua New Guinea, foreign AIDS advisors enforced a message that was anti-family, anti-men, anti-traditional marriage, anti-culture and anti-faith.

Blame was put on the blackfellas for any shortcomings. Please click:

OPERATION LAST CHANCE

PNG decision-makers allowed it to happen out of fear of funding cuts, black-banning of national officers and the assumption that if the message comes from Western nations, it must be good.

That should not have happened. The social message should have been promoted by church and other care bodies in terms of culture.

There may have been the need for expert assistance in promoting a family message in terms of the latest world thinking.

That is now happening in Papua New Guinea as the churches are moving to a marriage, family and parenting focus, assisted by the new Minister for Community Development. Please click:

NEW MINISTER CALLS ON CHURCHES

Foreign sexual subversion is being phased out. Please click:

WHAT DO WE WANT FOR KIDS?

Now we read of U.S. and Thai experts arriving to give technical support under the Centre for Disease Control. Australia lacked technical support.

The anti-man and anti-family, gay, lesbian and paedophile foreign focus is no longer the key message.

Thailand is one traditional country with a strong background in a Positive Living approach to HIV/AIDS, particularly related to self care, nutrition and exercise.

This country was introduced to widespread promiscuous sex with the U.S. soldiers taking rest and recreation leave in Bangkok during the Vietnam War.

Thai Positive Living has a strong influence of Buddhist personal discipline.