It's Chinese New Year, I'm supposed to be happy. But I just found out that some of the best dive sites in South East Asia are still subjected to dynamite fishing!
Seems like Hin Daeng has been dynamited just several years ago by a fishing boat. And someone on this board mentioned he heard explosion from dynamite fishing boat in the Similan islands very recently! (I know Koh Bon has a lot of old dynamite fishing scars)
Burma is dubbed "land of dynamite fishing" in one of the articles I found online, which said that the Burma Banks are seriously damaged by dynamite fishing. (links pasted below).
It seems to me that Burmese fishermen finally bombed their own existence into jeopardy and now they are venturing into the Similans to catch a few fish!
In addition to destroying reef, another danger of dynamite fishing is that divers' eardrums will be easily ruptured by dynamite fishing(happened before).
Would someone with enough qualifications put in some comments on these situations?
And what can we do and should we do?
Links:
http://www.tntdiventures.com/burma.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/30/MN232485.DTL
http://www.divegallery.com/dynamite.htm
http://www.coralreefs.net/10richesthammeredbyhumans.htm
Seems like Hin Daeng has been dynamited just several years ago by a fishing boat. And someone on this board mentioned he heard explosion from dynamite fishing boat in the Similan islands very recently! (I know Koh Bon has a lot of old dynamite fishing scars)
Burma is dubbed "land of dynamite fishing" in one of the articles I found online, which said that the Burma Banks are seriously damaged by dynamite fishing. (links pasted below).
It seems to me that Burmese fishermen finally bombed their own existence into jeopardy and now they are venturing into the Similans to catch a few fish!
In addition to destroying reef, another danger of dynamite fishing is that divers' eardrums will be easily ruptured by dynamite fishing(happened before).
Would someone with enough qualifications put in some comments on these situations?
And what can we do and should we do?
Links:
http://www.tntdiventures.com/burma.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/05/30/MN232485.DTL
http://www.divegallery.com/dynamite.htm
http://www.coralreefs.net/10richesthammeredbyhumans.htm