http://www.seashepherd.org/news-and-media/news-090414-2.html
Lets hope that this is the start of things to come. may be being put in prison for a while will make these fishermen think of choosing a different career.
Stew
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a step in the right direction
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a step in the right direction
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Well about time!! Really good new's Stew, thanks for posting!
IMHO the penaltys there are still waaay too small...
Karel
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IMHO the penaltys there are still waaay too small...
Karel
The financial penalties are as you say way too small, but at least with a few of them now being imprisoned it might make them think twice. Siezing the boats will hopefully keep them out of the no take zone also.
stew
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The fishing vessels should be permanently disabled (as in sunk?) so other illegals don't buy them cheap & start fishing again in protected waters.
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As everyone says its a good start, thank you for posting. I agree clean the ships and sink them as artificial reefs.....
Happy weekend
Karen
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thanks for posting. i've just passed this onto TSG.
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It is wonderful that enforcement & prosecution are working in sync! Rehabitation of the proachers should be done too... Hopefully, 1 of these days, the proachers' "bosses" will be caught & jailed for many years!
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It is wonderful that enforcement & prosecution are working in sync! Rehabitation of the proachers should be done too... Hopefully, 1 of these days, the proachers' "bosses" will be caught & jailed for many years!
it's a little more liquified than that i think, the real bosses are the poeple that pay the money for the product, and to catch them would require a huge undercover operation is unlikely, and as the report says, these boats were within park waters, yet the "mother ship" was outside and remained untouched. if seashepherd hadn't been there pushing for the legal precedent, then probably nothing would have happened. things in eucador are too nepotistic for there to be a sudden realisation that they are damaging theor own future as well as the world's natural heritage.
one case on its own is unlikely to make anything happen but if a string of cases happens over the next months/years, then lets hope it starts to have an effect.
