How many fish are enough?

Today I was reading a few articles regarding the furore surrounding the “super trawler”.  The super trawler has been brought to Australia as part of a joint Dutch-Australian venture whereby a big boat has a 600 metre net hanging off it and sweeps up anything in its path before unloading in Tasmania to allow a company to get heaps more fish than they would otherwise, thereby increasing their profit and reducing the number of fish in the ocean (and so by that statement you can see where I fit on this issue).  Of course, the company in Tasmania are crying foul about not being allowed to do this and stressing that 60 jobs are at risk.  But can’t they just get smaller boats to catch the fish.  And perhaps Australian should expect to pay the real price of fish!  One photo caught my eye – it is of the super trawler in port with a dophin in the foreground.   How long did that photographer wait for the dolphin to surface?  How ironic, in my view, that a beautiful sea animal happens to be swimming behind the stationary trawler.  The same super trawler that would catch anything and everything in its nets were it in operation.  I’m grateful to the Australian Government for putting a (temporary) stop of this boat fishing in Australian waters.