Aquaponics Digest - Sat 03/07/98
Message 1: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
from donald trotter
Message 2: Re: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
from "Ed Sommers"
Message 3: Eco-Freak
from donald trotter
Message 4: Open List was Re: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
from S & S Aqua Farm
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Subject: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
From: donald trotter
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 15:41:04 -0800
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>Subject: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
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>>Date: Sun, 01 Mar 1998 17:28:03 +0000
>>From: Darby Davis
>
>Hi Saneters!
>
>I am forwarding this article from one of the magazines that I write for. I
>realize this has little to do with sustainable agriculture but we're all
>environmentalists here and this is a very disturbing subject. further
>information can be obtained via Awareness magazine's website at
>www.awarnessmag.com
>
>Organically yours,
>Donald W. Trotter Ph.D.
>The Organic Gardener's Resource Centre
>
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>>Subject: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
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>>NEWS FLASH from
>>AWARENESS MAGAZINE
>>As we were going to press last week, this unbelievable story came to our
>>attention through one of our readers on the East Coast. Since that
>>time, we have been in contact with Mary and Lanny Sinkin of the Light
>>Worker Center in Hilo, Hawaii, who have been keeping us updated as the
>>events unfolded.
>>Chris Reid, ICERC, Hawaii Lightspirit Foundation, has been rounding up
>>volunteers, divers, swimmers, boats etc. to challenge the Navy. An
>>amazing effort is underway to protect these wondrous creatures.
>>Please read the following e-mails and respond in whatever way you can.
>>E-mail or FAX everyone you know! It is time that we stood up against
>>our government officials and let them know THIS IS NOT OK!!!
>>ICERC is a very small non-profit group, operating with volunteers and
>>only the cash contributions they receive. Awareness Magazine has sent
>>$200 to assist in this operation. Any contribution you may be able to
>>make would be appreciated. Make checks payable to ICERC Hawaii, and
>>mail to Chris Reid, P.O. Box 1598, Kealakekua, HI 96750. Your
>>contribution will go 100% toward the efforts to stop the Navy's sonar
>>testing.
>>
>>
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>>HELP STOP THE INSANITY!
>>U.S. Navy Set To Blast Humpbacks
>>Literally, as we were going to press, I received this e-mail, and
>>numerous subsequent follow-ups from concerned readers of Awareness
>>Magazine across the country. Since we are scheduled to go on the press
>>within only a couple of hours, we have made every possible attempt to
>>publish the most current information available concerning this tragic
>>situation in Hawaii.
>>
>>FEBRUARY 24 (11:45 A.M.) - LFA Sonar (Low Frequency Active Sonar)
>>testing is to begin by the Navy on February 25 off the Northwest coast
>>of the Big Island of Hawaii, right in the heart of the Humpback Whale
>>birthing and breeding season, and is expected to last for four weeks.
>>For those of you who don't know what LFA Sonar is, please see the
>>National Resources Defense Council's website nrdcinfo@nrd.org.
>>In a nutshell, the tests consist of blasting whales and any other marine
>>life within the area with sounds up to 230db. This is up to 100 times
>>the noise of a 747 taking off. Also remember the whales' primary sense
>>is not sight like us, but hearing.
>>It is not an accident that the Navy has chosen that location or this
>>time of year as they are specifically bombarding singing adult Humpback
>>Whales with extremely loud sound to see the effects. It is intentionally
>>designed to see what the disruption will be.
>>The Navy only lacks a permit from the State of Hawaii Department of Land
>>and Natural Resources (DNLR), whose Chairman, Mike Wilson, was to rule
>>on shortly. The Navy has asked Mr. Wilson for immunity from any and all
>>damage (deaths) they may produce.
>>This is our one and only chance to stop or at least delay these tests
>>until all interested parties have had a chance to give their viewpoints.
>>
>>FEBRUARY 24 (4:00 P.M.) - We are still waiting to hear the results of a
>>hearing that is currently being conducted by Judge Helen Gilmore in
>>Honolulu. The Animal Welfare Institute, Earth Island Institute,
>>Earth-trust, and Greenpeace Foundation filed suit to seek a temporary
>>restraining order stopping the tests at least temporarily.
>>If the suit is unsuccessful (a very difficult undertaking at the
>>eleventh hour), boats and volunteers are being recruited to go into the
>>water near the Navy broadcast ship to force cancellation of the tests.
>>The Navy intends to broadcast in a focussed beam at identified whales
>>until the whales demonstrate evidence of distress.
>>
>>FEBRUARY 25 (11:30 A.M.) - The Animal Welfare Institute is currently
>>organizing volunteers in Hawaii to join them in harm's way by getting in
>>the water between the Navy and endangered Humpback Whales being targeted
>>with ear-splitting blasts of sound. This direct action campaign will
>>proceed if a requested temporary restraining order is not issued by a
>>federal court today.
>>The Navy is planning to start blasting singing Humpback Whales with up
>>to 230db of sound along the Kona coast of the Big Island of Hawaii
>>starting Wednesday, February 25, and continuing for three to four weeks.
>>(Permanent human hearing loss begins at 130db; 160db has been shown to
>>cause tissue shearing.
>>The Navy's plan is to test their low frequency active (LFA) sonar
>>anti-submarine warfare device specifically on singing Humpback Whales by
>>increasing the volume until the whales show "acute distress". The test
>>is right in the middle of the breeding and calving grounds of endangered
>>Humpback Whales.
>>According to whale researcher, Dr. Marsha Green, also a party to the
>>lawsuit, "Blasting humpback whales with sound of this intensity could
>>kill them. When the ATOC sound source was tested off California, three
>>dead humpback whales were found nearby. When the sound source was tested
>>off Kaua'i last fall, another dead humpback was found. To use endangered
>>whales as military sonar targets is a crime against nature."
>>The Animal Welfare Institute has been vigorously protecting marine and
>>terrestrial wildlife since 1951. International coordinator, Benjamin
>>White, calls on the citizens of Hawaii to join him in forming a human
>>wall of divers between the Navy and the whales, saying "The time has
>>come to literally put our bodies on the line to stop this unprecedented
>>sonic attack on breeding and calving humpback whales. If the United
>>States Navy insists on going forward, they may well kill their own
>>citizens as well as whales."
>>
>>
>>
>>FEBRUARY 26 (12:30 P.M.) - The only court action took place on Tuesday,
>>February 24, when the judge denied the Temporary Restraining Order. The
>>hearing on whether to issue a Preliminary Injunction will not be held
>>until next week.
>>At a meeting last night, nine boat owners volunteered their boats to
>>take people out of Kawaihae Harbor at the north end of the island to put
>>swimmers into the water. We also have commitments from six boats
>>further south in Kona. There will be further recruitment of boats and
>>swimmers.
>>The challenge is that the test area extends 20 miles off the west coast
>>of the island and from the north end to the south end, which is
>>approximately 100 miles. What that means for us is that we have a
>>challenge to even know where the boat is located. Then once the boat is
>>located, we have to have boats in a nearby part of the island prepared
>>to go out with swimmers; for boats in Kawaihae to reach the Navy boat at
>>the south end of the island, for example, would take the Kawaihae boats
>>six or seven hours and is, therefore, impractical. Anyway, we are
>>trying to recruit enough boats and swimmers to be able to respond to
>>whereever the boat appears. We have a plane in the air right now
>>looking for the boat.
>>We have received a report from folks who swim with, observe, and
>>interact with the dolphin that unusual behavior has been seen during the
>>past few days. While pods of 20 to 30 dolphin are the most common, we
>>and others have sometimes seen pods of up to 200. The report we
>>received is that a superpod of up to 1,000 dolphin were observed off the
>>west coast of the island. The dolphin were organized into a very tight
>>group occupying a very small area for such a large pod. There was a
>>great deal of surface activity and a great deal of chatter. The dolphin
>>appeared highly agitated and in a defensive posture.
>>For those of us who have interacted with the dolphins, this report is
>>not surprising. Their level of intuitive understanding and intelligence
>>is extraordinary. They are quite likely detecting the fear vibration
>>emanating from the planned Navy bombardment. We have seen the dolphins
>>swimming with the humpbacks and there are numerous reports of dolphins
>>driving sharks away from birthing whales. That they would come to the
>>defense of the whales is to be expected.
>>A particularly helpful insight from Mary Rose - "Many of us are holding
>>a vision of this island as a healing center for the entire planet. The
>>island is already serving that purpose. As a healing center with
>>extraordinary capability to achieve healing, this center will attract
>>those with the greatest challenge to be healed. The United States Navy
>>coming to this island to deliberately assault humpback whales is clearly
>>a call for healing from a deeply troubled group."
>>A spiritual insight from a Light Worker Center meditation this morning -
>>"The Navy sound is a dissonant sound that disturbs the harmony of the
>>ocean. This morning was the solar eclipse, which signaled the entering
>>of a new frequency into the environment of the planet. The dissonance
>>produced by the Navy is the negative expression of this positive new
>>frequency. The broadcast of the Navy sound yesterday captured the
>>attention of the humpbacks and prepared tham to receive, absorb, and
>>blend the new frequency into the biosphere. That awakening process was
>>completed after the first Navy sound was broadcast. Any further
>>broadcasts are both unnecessary and reprehensible.
>>Thank you to Lanny and Mary Rose Sinkin of the Light Worker Center in
>>Hilo for keeping us updated as the events unfold, to our readers who
>>brought this situation to our attention, and to the numerous concerned
>>individuals who are prepared to put their lives on the line to stop this
>>insanity.
>>
>>
>>FEBRUARY 27 - From: "Chris Reid " To: "Darby
>>Davis"
>>
>>Dear Darby,
>>Thanks so much for your efforts in helping to "get the word out". I
>>hope that you will send me a copy of your magazine issue, once it's
>>available, so that we may read the article you mention, and acquaint
>>ourselves with your publication.
>>Your offer of a contribution is most gratefully received. We are a very
>>small organization, and our activities are carried out entirely through
>>the sharing of personal time and resources. You can make a check out to
>>ICERC Hawaii, and mail it c/o Chris Reid, P O Box 1598, Kealakekua, Hi.
>>96750. Your contribution will go 100% toward the efforts to stop the
>>Navy's sonar testing.
>>I have just received a report (unconfirmed) from the Department of Land
>>and Natural Resources, that the testing has been postponed through the
>>weekend, and possibly into the start of next week. If true, this is
>>great news. We will be back in court arguing for a temporary injunction
>>on Wednesday, and in the meantime, can use the chance to get our direct
>>action intervention plan firmly into place. Coordinating volunteers,
>>information, boats and media attention is a major undertaking, but with
>>a large amount of grace, is going well.
>>I will add your email address to our list, so that you will be updated
>>as this situation developes. Do not hesitate to contact us, should you
>>have further questions or information to share.
>>Mahalo, and Aloha!
>>
>>Chris Reid ICERC Hawaii
>>LightSpirit Foundation
>>
>>E-mail Mike Wilson at mwilson@pixi.com and David Tarnas, Representative
>>of the 6th District of Hawaii, at reptarnas@capitol.hawaii.gov and
>>express your concerns over this unconscionable act.
>>
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>Donald Trotter
>The Organic Resource Centre
>293 Neptune Ave.
>Encinitas, CA. 92024
>curly@mill.net
>1.888.514.4004
>fax- 760.632.8175
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Subject: Re: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
From: "Ed Sommers"
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 16:08:58 -0000
Don
I for one do not appreciate the eco-freak posting you made. Please take that
type of bull to the appropate place.
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>Donald Trotter
>The Organic Resource Centre
>293 Neptune Ave.
>Encinitas, CA. 92024
>curly@mill.net
>1.888.514.4004
>fax- 760.632.8175
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Subject: Eco-Freak
From: donald trotter
Date: Sat, 7 Mar 1998 17:20:25 -0800
Hi Mr. Sommers:
I agree that the Aquaponics list is probably not the best place for a
posting of this type. I do , however have many friends on the list that
appreciate some of my postings. Most have to do with marine aquaponics
systems of which my firm is one of the most successful. Species protection
and repopulation has been our focus in regard to three types of Pacific
Abalone the White Sea Bass, Pacific Spiny Lobster, and several other
threatened and endangered animals and marsh flora. I apologize to you
personally for having offended your sensibilities and will certainly
refrain from any further postings on this subject to the aquaponics list. I
thought that some of the more environmentally sensitive members might want
to know what was transpiring in Hawaii.
Thank you for your comments.
Respectfully,
Dr. Donald W. Trotter Ph.D.
Organic Resources Inc.
Donald Trotter
The Organic Resource Centre
293 Neptune Ave.
Encinitas, CA. 92024
curly@mill.net
1.888.514.4004
fax- 760.632.8175
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Subject: Open List was Re: NAVY TO BLAST WHALES
From: S & S Aqua Farm
Date: Sat, 07 Mar 1998 23:00:31 -0600
At 04:08 PM 3/7/98 -0000, "Ed Sommers" wrote:
>Don
>
>I for one do not appreciate the eco-freak posting you made. Please take that
>type of bull to the appropate place.
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Ed - although the topic/concern may not be one which you share, this list is
offered as an open forum for whatever topics its members may think of
interest to other participants. While we can appreciate that you feel it is
inappropriate to the list, others may welcome the post.
If this topic had gone on long, requiring multiple posts, and created a side
topic completely off-topic for an extended period, we would have requested
that the topic be moved off-list.
Please do not be so quick to jump on another's priorities, and give us all
the option to read/not read or delete messages we wish. We would do the
same for your messages.
Paula Speraneo
S&S Aqua Farm, 8386 County Road 8820, West Plains, MO 65775 417-256-5124
Web page http://www.townsqr.com/snsaqua/
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