Look! Real actual starving fishermen and their families!

Full story at

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/f ... 199340.stm

Waving his hand over the horizon, Pape blamed Europeans for the crisis.

"The only thing that has changed in recent years," he said, "is the arrival of big foreign trawlers just off shore, that sweep up far more from the sea than the Senegalese fleet has ever done.

"If Europeans take our fish they can take our people too."

Isn't EU-sponsored distant-water fishing marvelous?

The greatest danger a man can face is to wake up to find his children are hungry and he has no food to offer them. - Ndiro Diop

This is the reality of industrial fishing.....

i read that senegal have since refused to renew the fishing rights agreement.. dunno if this is true or not. probably the EU can force senegal to adopt the 'agreement' some other way, that's if there's anything other than sardinella left in their waters. mauritania is next on the list for EU organised ocean draining (i.e. commercial fishing).
[url]http://ec.europa.eu/fisheries/press_corner/press_releases/com06_47_en.htm[/url]

a similar example of the EUs reckless drive to plunder ocean life at all costs is the fishing agreement it made with morocco, who's claimed soveriegnty over western sahara (and her waters - [ [url]http://www.fishelsewhere.org/home_e.htm[/url] ) since the spanish left around the time of francos death. and guess who recently paid morocco for the right to fish off the coast of a country it has no legal claim to?

its sad we were discussing all this here about this time last year - the EU wants it this way and im sure it will stay this way

read up on lake tanzania and the nile perch - another great EU odessy

its sad we were discussing all this here about this time last year - the EU wants it this way and im sure it will stay this way

i don't reckon the EU get it their way all the time. the important thing is that the senegalese were able to shut down negotiations and end the contract under difficult conditions no doubt. and even though eu look like they're leveraging new rights in fresh waters, their victims to follow them around. the drives by rich nations to open up poor countries to free-trade is grinding to a halt in places and meeting resistance. look at the doha round for instance.

read up on lake tanzania and the nile perch - another great EU odessy

read up on lake tanzania and the nile perch - another great EU odessy

cheers corby, i've started to. sounds like perch numbers are in trouble right now, making plans to direct the nets, plants etc. at the other species of tilapia and so on, down the ladder... maybe lake tanzania becomes a giant fish farm, and the perch will be reintroduced at some point for a couple of 'bonus' years. have you seen a documentary called darwin's nightmare about this? i'm trying to find a copy...

it was on bbc 4 last year - keep an eye out for a repeat

cant really put you onto it anywhere else

it was on bbc 4 last year - keep an eye out for a repeat

cant really put you onto it anywhere else

i found a copy on amule, download in progress :D cheers!