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Open season?

Quotas for lobsters and linefish were given to 1,500 subsistence fishers, who became known as “interim relief” fishers. A challenge to the allocation by the West Coast Rock Lobster Association was rejected by the Supreme Court of Appeal in September last year.

Moolla said this week that the interim relief fishers were allocated 200 tonnes of lobsters for the 2010-11 season. “In the Elandsbaai area alone they have already harvested at least 500 tonnes, with more than half the season left. In Paternoster they are removing 30,000 lobster tails a day. If poaching levels are even half that in other zones, we are probably looking at the interim relief sector taking about 1 500 to 2 000 tonnes,” he said.

A recreational fisher who did not want to be named said he had witnessed interim relief fishers taking out “crayfish tails by the sackful and throwing the rest of the carcasses away. It’s tragic to see what’s happening. It’s open season on crayfish.”

- Fishing experts put red alert on lobsters, MG.co.za, February 18, 2011.

2. The Egyptian government government’s lackluster response to deadly attacks against Christians is tantamount to telling Muslim fanatics it’s “open season” on Christians, Middle East expert Ken Timmerman tells Newsmax.TV. More attacks are inevitable unless the government and religious leaders crack down on the terrorists, says the best-selling author.

Timmerman, a Newsmax contributor, was commenting on recent violence against Christians in Egypt, including an assault this week on a train headed to Cairo that killed one Christian and wounded five others and the bombing of a Coptic Christian church that killed 21 people. The New Year’s Day bombing led to rioting.