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Date: Thu, 16 Oct 1997 21:12:46 -0400
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From: David Bergeron <gfwa@gfwa.org>
Subject: New York Times article
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There is an article of interest in today's New York Times entitled
"A Coastal War Flares Over a Supertrawler". 
 
The article can be viewed on-line at:

http://search.nytimes.com/search/daily/bin/fastweb?getdoc+site+iib-site+87+0
++%28supertrawler%29%20OR%20%28%29%20OR%20%28%29

It is about attempts to bring factory trawlers back into New England
fisheries and the move underway in the U.S. Congress to ban such huge
fishing vessels from U.S. Northwest Atlantic waters.

The power in the world's fisheries that is forcing coastal indigenous
fishing cultures into extinction (and fish stocks too) is BIG business.
Multi-national fishing companies and their factory trawlers can wipe out
populations of fish and move to different continents without taking
responsibility while local coastal fishing communities are left with
depleted resources.  Global competition by large factory trawlers forces
smaller fishing vessels to fish harder in order to survive economically.

It is time for a world-wide ban of factory trawlers to be introduced in the
United Nations General Assembly.

David Bergeron, Coordinator
Massachusetts Fishermen's Partnership
.