Someone one buys the poachers illegal product - that's politics. Japanese long liners hook and kill 44,000 albatrosses a year in their pursuit of tuna for the sushi and sashimi markets - again luxury foods. It's a hell of a price to pay for a luxury. The list is endless. However, all is not lost.
Recreational fishing can come to the rescue.
We are the viable alternative to this obscene waste of one of our most valuable natural resources on one proviso. As I said earlier - in the UK anglers total spend is between 3 and 5 billion per annum. In the EU there are over 22 million anglers who each year spend 500 million on fishing tackle alone - at wholesale prices. Total spend could be 20 billion. In Australia one third of it's people fish for recreation.