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Prior sovereignty is unclear; there were
fishermen
from Japan in Takeshima/Dokdo, and some awareness of the Senkaku/Diaoyu in imperial China.
And yet individual
fishermen
have little reason not to catch as many tuna as possible, as any animal that escapes their net will likely end up in another’s.
Similarly, villages have reportedly been denied access to their sole supply of portable water, while the pipeline has seriously threatened the livelihoods of Kribi’s
fishermen.
Similarly, in the South China Sea, China’s naval forces follow
fishermen
to carve out space for the reclamation of rocks or reefs.
Senegalese and Mauritanian
fishermen
and their families are also among the thousands of people risking their lives to get to Europe today.
More than 13,000
fishermen
were killed and another 5,000 evacuated in Sri Lanka alone, with 80% of the fishing fleet lost or severely damaged.
The situation on Sumatra is similarly grim, and it is perhaps even worse in the Maldives, Laccadives, Andamans, and Nikobar islands, where not only
fishermen
and boats were lost, but harbours were ruined.
The reason is simple: with most fish populations nowadays hit hard by over-fishing, fewer
fishermen
will mean more fish.
Europe and Its DiscontentsLONDON: Waves of street protests by French farmers,
fishermen
and truck drivers against surging fuel prices dominate television and newspapers.
This would provide small-scale businesspeople such as farmers and
fishermen
with market information, enabling them to sell their goods at the highest price – and to boost productivity, increase efficiency, and generate more jobs.
Many locals are
fishermen
or rice farmers, and their resources are stretched from sharing their land, markets, and roads with the massive influx of refugees.
In fact, several small bombs exploded less than three months ago at the site of Burma’s Myitsone Dam, whose construction by a Chinese company in insurgency-torn Kachin State is displacing thousands of subsistence farmers and
fishermen
by flooding a wide swath of land.
A cousin, whose house sits on a cliff by the sea, had to jump 70 meters into the rocky waters below as his house burned down; fortunately, he was rescued by
fishermen.
Conservationists have long sought to protect marine life in ways that do not create problems for
fishermen.
It is a testament to the great efficiency with which we exploit living marine resources that fish like cod are now much more likely to die at the hands of
fishermen
than for all other reasons put together, once they get into the fisheries.
The long-term concern is that fishing is intended to be selective;
fishermen
aim to harvest the most profitable species and the most profitable sizes within species.
Most victims of the oddly named Cyclone Ockhi were
fishermen
from the districts of Thiruvananthapuram (in Kerala) and Kanyakumari (in Tamil Nadu) who, owing to the lack of a timely cyclone alert, had ventured out to sea, unaware of the danger.
Such training, together with students’ affinity for their fellow
fishermen
and their expertise in braving turbulent seas, would make for a highly effective reserve unit, to be deployed when disaster strikes.
Just as India’s agriculture cannot sustain all the farmers trying to live off the land, our over-fished seas cannot possibly sustain all of our
fishermen.
For example, in the late seventeenth century, when conflict between Korea and Japan erupted over the passage of Japanese
fishermen
to Ulleungdo, Tottori-han (one of Japan’s feudal clans) told Japan’s central government that Ulleungdo and Dokdo did not fall within Japanese territory.
By flooding a large swath of land, the project displaced many subsistence farmers and fishermen, fueling a popular backlash that contributed to the end of a 17-year ceasefire between the Kachin Independence Army and government forces.
After all, they seem like fishing boats, not military vessels, though North Korean soldiers are frequently also
fishermen.
Another explanation is that the boats are filled simply with
fishermen
who, under pressure from the government to boost their yields, ventured out too far into the open sea.
Last year, China effectively took control of the Scarborough Shoal, an area of the South China Sea that is also claimed by the Philippines and Taiwan, by deploying ships and erecting entry barriers that prohibit Filipino
fishermen
from accessing their traditional fishing preserve.
Carlos, who faces an 11-year sentence, is one of hundreds of men ensnared in an expansion of America’s “war on drugs,” whereby US authorities now apprehend and detain foreign
fishermen
in international waters.
In desperation, some of Manta’s fishermen, prodded by smugglers who prowl the port looking for men with boats and without options, have turned to small-scale drug running.
The smugglers promise to pay the
fishermen
to carry cocaine on their trawlers out to sea, where they are met by larger boats that traffic it onward to the US via Central America.
Smugglers, who have frequently forced
fishermen
at gunpoint to traffic drugs, have already threatened some of the women in the group not to make noise.
For many others – such as farmers, fishermen, and clean-energy producers – upending the status quo would actually bring more economic and environmental benefits, not less.
There were also laid-off public-transport employees,
fishermen
and miners, beauticians and barbers, and millions of shopkeepers – all on the verge of hunger, with their savings used up.
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