Manpot said:
So...if they become extinct everyone misses out..locals who eat them..guides who show them to the $$ guests and all snorkelers and divers..even the sharks have to look elsewhere for a snack ( watch your back those in the water). Is that not reason enough to show a little common sense and protect them if they are nearing extinction..just saying!
Your point is well taken but misses the agenda of the petition. To end the hunting season in the BVI, nobody commercially fishes for Turtle in the BVI, there are very few commercial fisherman except the Lobster & Pot fishermen and on another post was to stop Pot fishing so the Groupers can help with Lionfish( which came from the USA) flushed away but now breeding in the BVI.
Stop any commercial fishing for Turtle worldwide I would sign in a heartbeat but to tell locals around the world and here in the BVI that they can't catch what they have always caught because someone in a First world country messed up their enviroment so badly they now want to halt progress in the islands because they want to keep them special for vacation time.
Who decides the cute scale? The media/internet controls the world as no one cares about Cows, Pigs, Chicken, Wahoo, Mahi, LOBSTERS, Conch but a cute little turtle and everyone is up in arms.
