Drift-net use ‘piracy’
PA Wellington Drift gill net fishing has been denounced as “environmental piracy” by the Minister of Fisheries, Mr Moyle, at the Food and Agriculture Organisation conference in Rome. The use of large-scale drift-netting in the South Pacific was plundering stocks without measuring what was needed for the future, Mr Moyle told the international conference. “In the way it threatens the livelihood of small island States without giving them any say in the matter, it is economic piracy and cannot be allowed to continue. “We must develop procedures for saying so and taking action,” he said. Many small south-west Pacific island States depended on seafood for their livelihoods and own consumption. “For many of them the growth of an indigenous tuna fishing industry holds out some of the best prospects for self-sustaining economic development,” Mr Moyle said. Mr Moyle urged all F.A.O. members to support the South Pacific nations, with the United States, in a United Nations resolution for an immediate ban on drift netting in the region.
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