Cedar Wings
February / March 2000
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So what does Yazbeck propose? He is a promoter of responsible hunting, which he defines as licensed hunting restricted by ecological and civic rules specifying the location, season, and type of species involved. A hunter should be informed: For example, what is local, as distinguished from what is migratory, has to be preserved, yet if it becomes overpopulated, it will decimate. If I were a Minister of Agriculture in Lebanon, I would sit down with specialists and conduct an analysis of the entire landscape. I would set rigid hunting and fishing rules for a 3-year-term to let nature breathe then designate a hunting and fishing season per specie with size and bag limits supervised by a game officer. But most important: Id increase the coast guard boat presence and give them absolute power to crack down on all poachers, especially the commercial ones. The worst of them all are dynamite, cyanide and compressed air marine life annihilators. Id also ban bottom gill netting and our nationally infamous net-dragging fishing method, known as the «jaroofeh» Yazbeck proposes education through raising awareness and the enforcement of rules governing water and underwater sports so that neither swimmers nor spearfishermen (Click here to continue) |