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National Geographic : 1987 Mar
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rehabilitates kangaroos that have been in jured or abandoned. There were about 20 roos of all sizes, from small joeys to full grown bucks and does. "Would you like to hold one?" asked Chris. Somewhat reluctantly I accepted a half-grown red kangaroo and cradled it in my arms. Holding a kangaroo is a very sur prising experience. The animal is enormous ly bottom-heavy because of the great mass of the hind legs and tail, and it takes a while to adjust to its peculiar weight distribution. While I held the kangaroo, Rodney Fox fed it almonds. \- EN YEARS AGO we called them crayfish, but now that you lot are buying them, we have to call them rock lobsters." The speaker was Don McBain, a lobster fisherman based in Port Macdonnell, not far from the Victoria South Australia border. "We have another crustacean that is similar to your crayfish, but we call it a yabby. Is that clear now?" It was, since I had already talked to the fisheries people in Adelaide about Jasus novaehollandiae, the object of another of South Australia's lucrative commercial fish eries. Unlike abalone, which most Austra lians do not fancy, lobster is very popular here, and only its high price keeps it all from being consumed locally. Again we were fishing at night, but not because of the lobsters' aversion to light. We boarded the PamelaJat 3 a.m., "because all those other blokes are going out now-see all those lights over there?-and we wouldn't want them to get the jump on us, would we?" All seagoing poachers would have to do is make sure there is no other boat in sight, pull someone else's pots, remove the lobsters, and dump the pots back. This is a two-man operation, the entire crew consisting of McBain and his deckie, Australia'sSouthern Seas 315
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