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- From: wex@castle.ed.ac.uk (John Wexler)
- Newsgroups: rec.boats
- Subject: Re: Coast Guard user fee repealed!
- Message-ID: <29852@castle.ed.ac.uk>
- Date: 30 Dec 92 12:59:25 GMT
- References: <1h43h1INN2ge@leela.CS.ORST.EDU> <29825@castle.ed.ac.uk> <29828@castle.ed.ac.uk> <1992Dec24.183312.19187@ptdcs2.intel.com>
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- In article <1992Dec24.183312.19187@ptdcs2.intel.com>,
- mroberts@ptdcs2.intel.com (Mark Roberts ~) writes,
- apropos my mention of fishery protection vessels:
- |> On the Northwest coast (of the U.S.) the Coasties do MOST of the rescue
- |> operations required by commercial fishermen. Some are done by other
- |> fishermen and a few are done by commercial vessels (tankers, passenger
- |> liners, etc).
- which makes me think that I should explain that, over here, fishery
- protection does not mean rescuing fishermen; it means protecting the fish.
- Rescues are carried out as for any other vessel in distress, by the
- lifeboats or by the RAF. Fishery protection vessels (try to) control
- fishing - checking the mesh sizes of nets, making sure that people are
- not fishing for protected species, and so on. It used to be largely a
- matter of keeping foreigners out of territorial waters, but the European
- Community has changed all that! There used also to be (and for all I
- know, there may still be) larger fishery protection vessels which
- accompanied fishing fleets to distant waters to protect them from
- harrassment and interference. Since lots of countries have taken to
- claiming very extensive territorial waters in the last forty years, most
- of the distant fishing waters are no longer international, so that kind
- of fishery protection is more a matter for politicians than navies nowadays.
-
- John Wexler
- Edinburgh
-