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But many of the fishermen living in Cordova, Alaska, near the spill's epicenter say the initial compensation has hardly made a dent in their long-term losses, estimated by plaintiffs' lawyers at $700 million. R.J. Kopchak, 58, a commercial fisherman in Cordova for 32 years, says he has suffered...
When the environmental group Greenpeace sent a boat to West Africa last week to highlight the terrible impact of pirate fishing, they didn't expect to have to help the fishermen they were targeting. The Greenpeace crew aboard the M. V. Esperanza and fishing authorities from the West African nation...
Because most African nations can't afford the expensive patrol boats needed to guard against illegal fishing inside their national waters, pirate fishermen see the African coastline as easy pickings. The plunder is especially damaging to West African fishermen, most of whom use small wooden boats from which to net...
Working with the Guinean authorities, Greenpeace found 67 foreign flagged ships off the Guinean coast, registered to Belize, China, Italy, Korea and Liberia. More than a quarter of the vessels were not authorized to fish there and a third of them had a history of pirate fishing. Earlier this week...
But it's not just the fish stocks that are suffering. Conditions on many of the ships are appalling, according to Dave Walsh, a Greenpeace web editor who is on the Esperanza. (For his thoughts go to oceans.greenpeace.org). Some boats have holes rusting through the hulls, engines that don't...