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Chinese rednecks, take note!

January 3rd, 2008 by Joe Jones		 Joe

Spotted on the Hong Kong island of Lantau. (Suction devices… what a great idea…)

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    • 6 Responses to 'Chinese rednecks, take note!'

    1. Curzon Says:
      January 4th, 2008 at 1:46 am

      That is a great picture. Homer goes to Hong Kong!

    2. Roy Berman Says:
      January 4th, 2008 at 2:13 am

      Ok, dredging makes perfect sense to me and most of the rest, while dumb, at least I sort of understand- but “Toxic Substances”??? Who is going to catch FOOD with POISON?

    3. Joe Says:
      January 4th, 2008 at 3:53 am

      More to the point, wouldn’t a fish in Chinese territorial waters have developed an immunity to poison anyway?

    4. Aceface Says:
      January 4th, 2008 at 4:16 am

      http://blog.livedoor.jp/dqnplus/archives/974874.html

    5. Adamu Says:
      January 5th, 2008 at 3:03 am

      Blast fishing is amazingly common in China. I recently did a translation for a group called Mekong Watch that highlighted the problems caused in Laos by Chinese commercial ships running down the Mekong river. They use blast fishing to catch food for their crews. The dynamite (along with a number of other factors) erodes the riverbanks and has caused whole villages to be evacuated.

      And catching fish with mild poison is a good idea if you aren’t going to eat the fish yourself.

    6. Mutantfrog Travelogue » Blog Archive » Fishing with poison Says:
      February 15th, 2008 at 5:50 pm

      [...] seeing the photo Joe posted of a sign prohibiting kinds of fishing that no one should ever engage in, I was somewhat skeptical [...]

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