I posted a thread here earlier today. The one regarding a fishing company stealing fish and breeching the Fisheries Act. There was one (wrong) statement that this was a political post now it appears to have gone?
This one;http://news.msn.co.nz/nationalnews/8910382/huge-fishing-fraud-suspected

How is this political OR do just a few rule this board? SURELY this is the most important fishing topic today? AND if not why not?

Yeah its been moved to the politics area. I guess anything that has the smallest possibility of turning political will end up there, even if it doesn't.

that is my feeling as well but i guess others are complaining that Politics and fish dont mix,
so to now find what truly is happening to our fish we have to go hunt down some stupid thread way down under all the others threads to locate it...
ok i can see the problem but maybe we should bring something as important as our fisheries under the Binary bar...
we at least have LegaSea there....
your thoughts????

How about putting news articles in the new sections? 

Maybe it's the approach and not the message.

Zambezi wrote: Maybe it's the approach and not the message. The news section has been used effectively for years and I'm not the only one who browse by new posts. In my opinion (and I have a lot of respect for you Lethal), might be time to find another soap box. http://static.fjcdn.com/pictures/beating+a+dead+horse+all+right+my+usual+statement+if_12609f_4027090.jpg

are you serious that i should take a break, your not happy with my comments/posts????
i have no problem with leaving this Place even if its been some 12 years,
its getting beyond a joke, people either want to know about our fishery and how it effects the fishing and why it is like it is.......
if they dont understand the what has been and how it was changed for the worse then fine i will take a break...

you vote on it,
+1
 

Settle down and don't get your knickers in a twist chaps. This one's probably more a news item but can hang out in the Briny Bar for now anyway - depends on what direction it takes.

I don't think there's any debate about the fact that our fisheries and the future of them are important and need to be discussed fully. When those discussions are political in nature or are motivated by politics then they rightly belong in the politics forum. If it's a news item then that's where it should live. 

It's not that anyone is trying to 'bury' stuff so you can't find it, it's just that many on here felt the BB was getting over-run by political diatribe coming up to the election and most people were more than over it (and driven by a handful of members too - you only need to look back through the threads and it's pretty obvious).

If you use the New Posts button it's pretty easy to scan what's been posted and then just follow the links - it's almost irrelevant where the thread actually sits but all the mods have agreed that we'll do our best to keep things in the most appropriate place.

Someone asked about LegaSea - LegaSea is an apolitical organisation.

It was I who moved it. It probably was ok in here, this threads here too. But it has been impossible to find anything else in the Briny Bar recently and that had the potential to start all over again. As soon as i see someone questioning why it is in the BB of course I'll move it.

Apologies to O'Neil, we normally pm the OP before moving it but I was running out of time.

Of course this stuff is important, that's why I make sure it goes in the correct forum. Grunta has spoken and this is where this stays. Zambezi isn't suggesting you take a break Lethal,  you are one of the most valued contributors to this site with a very long (in internet terms) history here.

cheers Smudge, the idea was to get it sorted, not to coarse a problem,
thanks Grunta for your thoughts, happy now that has been solved...

there was one post i had made that i would wish others could see which was the Chinese in shore fish fleet which gives an idea on what the world is in for when their fish stocks have run out even with a Ban on fishing for 3mths of the year when the fish are spawning its not enough...

maybe you could shift that to the Binary Bar Smudge as it is an eye opener to what the world is up against....
not just in the future but right at this very moment as China shifts its attention to the open seas....
 
 

Fully agree. I would add though if staff loose their jobs because of this behaviour those who are not involved should be paid compensation from the sale of assets from those who have committed the offences.