Muck Diving Jones Bay (Part VIII) by Ali Perkins
Monday 27 October 2008
Sometimes you have to resort to desperate measures to entice people out diving. On this occasion it was the opportunity to gather scallops at Jones Bay that drew out Mike, Kathryn, David, Leah and Danielle. Cameron and Simon, like me, were there for the [...]

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Dive Shack are looking for a part time staff member for summer. They are after a serious diver, either a Dive Master or someone with 100+ dives.

Dive Shack can be a little flexible on hours/days, but the job will likely include a Saturday.
Contact Aaron on 021 815 037.
Visit Diveshack website.

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Flotsam is the totally sporadic newsletter of the Auckland University Underwater Club. Read up on what happened around the club in 2008.
Download Flotsam 2008 from here.

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3:58AM Saturday Oct 18, 2008
David Larsen
In the 1960s, the Canadian cod fishery was the largest in the world. Two thousand boats from a dozen countries were catching more than 800,000 tonnes of cod a year off the coast of Newfoundland.

Bottomfeeder: How the Fish on our Plates is Killing our Planet By Taras Grescoe. Photo / [...]

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New World Bank – FAO report reveals “the sunken billions”

Fleet overcapacity is a key reason underlying financial losses in the fishing sector.
9 October 2008, Rome/Washington – Economic losses in marine fisheries resulting from poor management, inefficiencies, and overfishing add up to a staggering US$50 billion per year, according to a new World Bank-FAO report released [...]

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