Deep Trouble

I'm glad so many are posting and are concerned about this. As a vegan myself, I can assure you we can get our food from kinder places.

It's almost as if the animals are beached to show humans how we are responsible for their deaths

about whales but i don't understand everything, he speak too quick !!!

i am somewhat ashamed to say i worked at sealord one hoki season,i was apalled at the shear waste,non targeted species are tipped into dumpsters by the ton (to be made into tropical fish food & garden fertiliser),the orange roughy are caught in their breeding season & are full of roe, mesh size doesnt make a difference because a wall of fish is formed in the net & nothing gets through,sealord are the biggest bottom trawling plundering company in australasia,it made ngai tahu rich but at what cost? as for the japanese owners they are just plain ruthless,the image of our clean,green little country is a lie

Can you look at the link between pesticides layed in Northland and these strandings. I have witnessed the perfect timing of large scale Cyanide etc etc placed along all our streams and lots of dead sea life. Penguins etc. No COVERUP Please.

Thanks for all your work Steve! Keep it up as long as you can. I will be passing it on to our group of high school outdoor education teachers. They like me will show our students and no doubt generate some good discussion on many topics including how vested interests can distort the truth and people's inability to be true to themselves when money is involved.

The DVD 'End Of The Line'is good too and I've ordered a copy. I will also look at the videos you have mentioned but please let me know if there are any other good resources for the classroom.

Your work will have a ripple effect I'm sure. The students I teach are the leaders of the future and they have the sense to know that leading by example is a powerful tool for transformation. Many will choose not to support the seafood industry and some will be more active.

I love these lyrics Lucy; there's so much truth in them. Listen to the lyrics.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DxZseSNZRDc

Please follow the link below for more information on this issue. http://www.fish.govt.nz/en-nz/Press/Pilot+whales+and+squid.htm

I find this so destressing...will our stories to our children and grandchildren start with "once upon a time the ocean was a playground for beautiful mysterious harmless giant mammals,called whales"...to which they will reply "what happened to them,they sound amazing"...and with mud on our faces we will say "well darlings we stripped their world of the essentials they needed to survive so that we could feed our own appetite, we didn't look after them"....maybe our little ones will say "but they didn't need much,they didn't ask much of us other than to help keep their world vast in food and water for them,why couldn't we do that".....I just can't fathom the mentality of those in their suit and ties in the beehive or whatever else parliment building they have whereby they dont see that our coastline is becoming the oceans graveyard and we're not doing anything active or enough about it!!!Im embarrassed and ashamed!we need to listen to the scienctist...we need to look at the evidence...

Dear Lucy

I hope that I am wrong! I would be the first to admit this.

A a complete aside, I understand another 60-or-so pilot whales have just stranded and died at Cape Kari Kari, northland, New Zealand. This is presently unconfirmed.

Yes, we'll be there, collecting our samples (subject to iwi approval). Yes, we'll collect the stomachs, stomach contents, and myriad other samples that we are taking in order to determine why these tragedies repeatedly occur. If you were bold enough to post your email address online I would contact you directly with our findings.

Mine is soshea@aut.ac.nz

It's easy to throw stones; I'd love to discuss with you facts you may have that refute what we are SUGGESTING warrants research. Hence "I believe"