Thaar Be Pirates In Them Spanish Seas!
By NunoXEI • Mar 25th, 2009 • Category: Blog
Greenpeace has hit the waters again and flagged down another pesky pirate ship. Okay, maybe that’s too dramatic, but here’s the actual current news on the situation. Greenpeace has uncovered evidence that the Spanish company, Vidal Armadores S.A. is receiving government subsidies equalling over 3.5 million Euros, and is still securing contracts and licenses to continue to fish in other countries. Greenpeace has presented this information to the Fisheries Committee of the UN Food and Agricultural Organisation.
The legal term for these actions is: Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing… but the more mundane tern “pirate fishing” (with obvious negative connotations applied) is what gets the message across more rapidly. According to Greenpeace:
In the Southern Pacific, pirate fishing for the prized Patagonia toothfish (also known as “sea bass”) has driven the species to the brink of commercial extinction. Illegal fleets catching the remaining toothfish here are predominantly controlled by northern hemisphere transnational crime syndicates.
You can find out more about Greenpeace’s discoveries and research by reading the full Greenpeace article there.
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