Tuna fished 'illegally' during Libya conflict

[xchrom]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-15597675

Evidence is emerging of unregulated and probably illegal tuna fishing in Libyan waters during this year's conflict.

Signals recorded from boats' electronic "black boxes" show a large presence inside Libyan waters, a major spawning ground for the endangered bluefin tuna.

Several strands of evidence, including a letter from a former industry source, suggest the involvement of EU boats.

The issue will be aired this week at the annual meeting of Iccat, which regulates tuna fishing in the region.

[AlecBGreen]

1. friggin looters

ANYONE caught illegally fishing a protected species should have their boat seized and be clapped in irons for a looong time. If there is no deterrent, whats the point of having these laws?

[xchrom]

2. european fishers regularly flout bans on tuna fishing.

they've just found a new place is all.

[TheMadMonk]

3. European fishers completely stripped the Somali fishing grounds...

...during the early years of that conflict, then once there was no living thing of comercial value left to harvest, the same fishing grounds were used as dumping grounds to "greenwash" pretty much everything West of the Urals and North of the Bosphorus.

Just where the fuck do people think the results of 40 years of Soviet pollution (not to mention all the crap domestic Western European industry generated as a waste stream) suddenly disappeared to, within just a few years of The Iron Curtain coming down? Swept under the rug of asovereign nation's Exclusive Ecconomic Zone, anywhere local conflict rose to the level where offshore policing completely broke down.