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...addition to their more admirable accomplishments, the French are generally considered the world champions of public protesting. Whether it's transport workers striking against tightened pension regimes, fishermen outraged by high operating costs, students battling education reform or even lawyers picketing over court closures, it seems scarcely a week goes by without some section of France's population taking to the streets. Given that, it should come as little surprise that one boisterous French group is planning a protest rally on the evening of Dec. 31 - and demanding that the world refuse to shed 2008 to make...
...Mediterranean tuna trade earns millions in tax revenues for Europe and employs thousands of Spanish and Italian fishermen, whose livelihoods have been pummeled by declining stocks in recent years. The specter of further job losses amid a global economic downturn has militated against European officials pressing for sharper cuts in bluefin-fishing. "None of the [fisheries] commissioners want to come back home and say, 'I have saved bluefin tuna but I have ruined my fishing industry'," says Fonteneau, who estimates that fishermen make as much in one month selling high-priced bluefin tuna as they do during an entire year...
...Spain's negotiator in Marrakech, fisheries official Fernando Curcio, said on Tuesday that "it was important to us to protect the interests of our small fishing fleets." Yet Europe's fisheries official Amilhat says that, inevitably, many fishermen will lose their jobs as fleets shrink in response to reduced catch quotas. And if the environmentalists' boycott campaign further cuts bluefin consumption, the species may yet have a fighting chance...
...case brought to the WTO, the U.S. imposed penalties on imports from Asian fishermen who, it was believed, allowed their nets to ensnare shrimp and endangered sea-turtles indiscriminately. Though it overturned the penalties on more technical aspects, the WTO maintained that trade controls could be established based on the methods of production as well as the nature of the product itself...
...Deadliest Catch--ification of politics. The more the electorate becomes suburban and diverse, the more pundits romanticize a definition of "working people"--like Discovery's Alaskan-crab fishermen--that is largely small town or rural, traditionally blue collar and white. The press spends months at the outset of each election at the independent diners and pancake breakfasts of Iowa and New Hampshire, a kind of museum-preserved Americana. Yet in 2000, according to U.S. Census data, only 59 million Americans lived in rural areas, and 30 million lived in small towns of fewer than 50,000 residents, compared with...