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Friday, 9 January 2009

Daily Telegraph and that court case - "the pirates of Newlyn"

More articles have appeared in the national press over the court case in Truro this week. The Daily Telegraph covers the story from several angles and, rather ingraciously, uses the term 'Pirates'.

While the point that there was quota available to buy may have been true at the time - there are many other times when there is no such quota available, anywhere - and in those times fishermen all over the UK are faced with a dilemma - they cannot fish selectively and as a result they see tons of fish being thrown back dead - that is not conservation - hence, in the past, many have justified their action on moral grounds.

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