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25/06/2004: "SPEARFISHING........near extinct fish. Why?"
Here is a beautiful picture of a Silver Drummer that has stood the test of time. But where have all the 'silvers' gone? These huge fish swam in schools by the hundreds, along the NSW coast. A weed-eater, with meters of smelly intestines - nobody ever considered eating one. A hotel snack bar in the City of Sydney minced 'silvers' salvaged from Alliman Shield monthly spearfishing comps and recycled them into tasty onion-enhanced fish cakes. Nobody else was known to eat them.
What became of the 'silvers' has never been studied or possibly even thought of. The great schools of fish vanished before marine science was aware of their plight. Spearfishing contests of today do not blindly waste fish as they did for so many years. It is a pity so many poor quality fish (cockies, cale, silvers, parrotfish) were speared, weighed, dumped for the ego of so few.
'Sandra' was the face of an underwater equipment company for several years. This picture appeared in "fathom" magazines #2 and #3
