Word: fishermen
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Last week the Department of Commerce, prompted by ecologists, decreed that U.S. fishermen may no longer hunt whales. As sometimes happens, it was a gesture of conservationist piety made too late. Only three whaling ships remain in the U.S.: they are operated by the Del Monte Fishing Co. of San Francisco. The firm's manager, Charles Caito, says that his men took only 109 of the 21,000 whales killed in the North Pacific last year. All the other prosaic Ahabs are Russian or Japanese, who will not be affected by the ban. They must, presumably, await the wrath...
...incident brought to a head the issue of whether Norwegians want to join the Common Market at all. All parties officially favor negotiations over membership, and Norway really has no choice if Britain, its best customer outside the EEC, joins. But some groups are opposed. Fishermen vociferously oppose the Common Market rule of sharing inshore fishing grounds. Norway's heavily subsidized farmers', the core of Borten's Center Party constituency, fear that their income would drop as much as 40% or 50% if they had to compete with French and German producers. Borten himself would prefer...
Much to the surprise of B.A.S.F. and local boosters, a strong and unlikely coalition of conservationists, retired businessmen and black fishermen fought the plan. Despite promised safeguards, they argued, the scheme would probably pollute Port Royal Sound, thus destroying the existing tourism and shell-fishing industries (TIME, Jan. 26, 1970). Last month the giant company completely abandoned its plans...
Ostensibly to protect its deep-sea fishery from the depredations of foreign commercial fleets, Ecuador claims that its territorial waters extend 200 miles offshore-something of a stretch beyond the usual twelve-mile limit. Yanqni tuna fishermen have "intruded" regularly over the years, sometimes paying the Ecuadoreans a license fee, sometimes not. Without a license, the American boats run the risk of seizure by the Ecuadorean navy. (More than half of Ecuador's 21 ships, as it happens, were supplied by the U.S.) Lately the Ecuadoreans have been getting more aggressive: since Jan. 11 they have seized...
...Americans usually manage to get their boats back, after paying fines that have ranged as high as $86,000. Since the U.S. Government reimburses the fishermen, the situation would be tolerable, if mildly embarrassing, except that Ecuador has now managed to turn the whole Ustinovian affair into a diplomatic confrontation. Uncle Sam, to retaliate against Ecuador, cut off military aid, which came to $4,500,000 last year. "Aggression!" exclaimed Ecuador, though there seemed something faintly odd in using that particular word to describe cutting off military supplies. The Ecuadoreans claim, however, that such sanctions violate the Organization of American...