The possible end of the Blue Card???

[akyaka]

No just your thinking.Presumably you just throw your rubbish overboard willy nilly - it is after all biodegradable eventually.
The whales and other sea life won't have to change , they will either move or die as pollution will use up the oxygen thus killing the plant life, plankton and bottom feeders etc and break the food chain cycle.

The major rivers of most countries in Europe used to be open sewers now thanks to better farm management and waste water treatment many of them support fish again for the first time in a century.

Perhaps you enjoy sailing in a cesspit of your own making

As Brendan Behan observed about the Liffey , “Somebody once said that ‘Joyce has made of this river the Ganges of the literary world,’ but sometimes the smell of the Ganges of the literary world is not all that literary.”

 

[macduff]

No just your thinking.Presumably you just throw your rubbish overboard willy nilly - it is after all biodegradable eventually.
The whales and other sea life won't have to change , they will either move or die as pollution will use up the oxygen thus killing the plant life, plankton and bottom feeders etc and break the food chain cycle.
The major rivers of most countries in Europe used to be open sewers now thanks to better farm management and waste water treatment many of them support fish again for the first time in a century.
Perhaps you enjoy sailing in a cesspit of your own making
As Brendan Behan observed about the Liffey , “Somebody once said that ‘Joyce has made of this river the Ganges of the literary world,’ but sometimes the smell of the Ganges of the literary world is not all that literary.”

I think anyone who suggests that the lack of a holding tank will create a cesspit of the sea is, just possibly, exaggerating a bit.

Possibly you would like to tell us the location of the sewage treatment plants which obviously must dot the coast of the Aegean because surely the people of all the villages along the coast of SW Turkey must not be discharging their sewage into the sea without treating it first.

I have not noticed any plants in places such as Bozburon or Datca which have quite large populations.

Obviously the sea surrounding these place must be really foul polluted areas.

 

[Appleyard]

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Was it the wise human Oscar Wilde who said he never drank water as fish had had sex in it? Or do I misquote, a bit fishy?[/QUOTE]

Close...It was W.C.Fields and he did not say "had Sex" in it !!!! He only used one word.:encouragement:

 

[akyaka]

I think anyone who suggests that the lack of a holding tank will create a cesspit of the sea is, just possibly, exaggerating a bit.

Possibly you would like to tell us the location of the sewage treatment plants which obviously must dot the coast of the Aegean because surely the people of all the villages along the coast of SW Turkey must not be discharging their sewage into the sea without treating it first.

I have not noticed any plants in places such as Bozburon or Datca which have quite large populations.

Obviously the sea surrounding these place must be really foul polluted areas.

Seek and you will find . The places you mention both have modern waste water treatment plants, Datcas has been open for some 8 years. My own village has had one for some 4 years but you wont see it from the sea as it is some 5 km away in the valley behind Gokova and serves the local area.

 

[macd]

1. Yes, black waste breaks down harmlessly in the open sea.
2. On the other hand in enclosed bays in the Med (where there is almost no tidal, er...flushing) it can overwhelm local ecosystems. And even if it doesn't quite reach those proportions can create smelly mess you wouldn't want to swim in.
3. Most bathers don't swim offshore.
4. The contribution to the tourist spend of all forms of sea life is vanishingly small.
None of the above is to defend the Blue Card scheme as the most rational way of dealing with the issues.

But to return to the OP's original question: no.

 

[Mrnotming]

like the Brendan Behan quote!
Thanks for the WC Fields correction, my bad, as the distorted modern language goes!