This is some serious poaching!
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I know many times people have been busted by Fish and Game officials that were
watching them do naughty things through their binoculars. Well if you think
this is bad then check out this news from the Atlantic coast of Africa!
It seems that there is a lot of commercial fish poaching going on, and according
to Alphonse Douati the Fisheries Minister, “Nearly 4 million tonnes a
year are lost to pirate ships.” Damn, that is a lot of fish! So
to combat this they are using satelites to watch who is fishing where and when. Talk
about using the eyes in the sky. My question is what do you do with all
those fish? Does no one notice when you roll into port with a boat load
of fish and no permit?
Of course at the conference that they decided to do this they also decided
on having set seasons for fishing and to set aside ‘no fishing’ areas for fish
breeding. It is truly amazing that with all the crap that goes on in
Africa, that they can all get along well enough to put together a package like
this!
Now if us Pacific Rim people could just figure out how to stop over fishing
and do some of this stuff it would be a real improvement! But hey, why
get our hopes up. That is about as likely as nixing the Indian’s special
fishing rights.
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