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Monthly Archives: October 2009

Gone fishing

On 2 October, the Basque purse-seiner the Alakrana was hijacked by Somali pirates (El Pais, Spanish). The boat, flying a Seychelles flag at the time, was 300 miles outside the Atalanta patrol zone, and 800 miles away from where it had told the Atalanta mission it would be.
Clearly, one hopes that the fishermen are released […]