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Article

5 Jul 2001

Author:
Mike Loewe, East Cape News [Grahamstown, South Africa]

Rhodes Ichthyology Head Warns That International Fishing Fleets Are Stripping African Oceans

The discovery in Port Elizabeth that a Taiwanese trawler has been plundering our oceans has highlighted the problem of a lack of policing of international fishing, especially off the African coastline. Rhodes Ichthyology head Dr Peter Britz said in a wide-ranging interview Thursday that there was a widespread problem of territorial and international waters being plundered by foreign fishing fleets.