Pirate Fishing Boats Target Africa
By Wendy Heller, July 3, 2008 @ 02:00 AM (EST)
Source: Bbc.co.uk
Ivory Coast is calling on the United Nations to lift an arms embargo that it says has prevented the defence of its waters from illegal fishing boats.
The country has been under a UN arms embargo since 2004, when a ceasefire in the civil war between the northern and southern halves of the country broke down.
Under the embargo, the government says it cannot buy the spare parts needed to repair two navy boats that used to patrol the country's waters.
Fishing unions say catches have declined by three-quarters to 40,000 crates a year since the start of the conflict because of illegal fishing...
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