Tyre fishermen protest continuing practice of dynamite fishing
Sun, 21 Jan 2007 11:23:32 -0600
Daily Star staff
Thursday, January 18, 2007
SIDON: Fishermen in the Southern coastal city of Tyre held a protest on
Wednesday in objection to other fisherman's use of dynamite to catch fish, an
illegal practice. Speaking at a news conference in Tyre, Khalil Taha, the head
of the local fisherman's syndicate, hailed the behavior of fishermen who refuse
to break the law by fishing with explosives but instead use "more traditional,
albeit time-consuming, methods" that preserve the environment and marine fauna.
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Taha called on the government and environmental associations to put an end to
dynamite fishing, "which not only harms the fish, but the fishermen too."
Dynamite is frequently used by fishermen at night, when sticks of the explosives
sometimes miss their targets and end up landing in the boats of other fishermen.
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