Thirteen Breton fishermen stand trial for smuggling illegal migrants to British beaches

December 7, 2015 International News

Thirteen Breton fishermen stood trial on Monday on charges of ferrying illegal migrants from the coast of Brittany to British shores for thousands of pounds per crossing. The fishermen are accused of transporting a total of 200 migrants via a gang of Albanian people smugglers who paid them €1000 (£720) per passenger and pocketed up to ten times that amount for every illegal passenger. Families were charged a group fee of €15,000. Read the article here 16:25

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It took me a while to decide how to most accurately describe the situation that has been visited upon the New England fishing communities that are and since colonial times have been dependent on the groundfish fisheries.

NILS STOLPE: The New England groundfish debacle (Part IV): Is cutting back harvest really the answer?

While it’s a fact that’s hardly ever acknowledged, the assumption in fisheries management is that if the population of a stock of fish isn’t at some arbitrary level, it’s because of too much fishing. Hence the term “overfished.” Hence the mandated knee jerk reaction of the fisheries managers to not enough fish; cut back on fishing. What of other factors? They don’t count. It’s all about fishing, because fishing is all that the managers can control; it’s their Maslow’s Hammer. When it comes to the oceans it seems as if it’s about all that the industry connected mega-foundations that support the anti-fishing ENGOs with hundreds of millions of dollars a year in “donations” are interested in controlling. Read the article here

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