Tuesday, May 15, 2007

The Scotsman - Business - Fishermen hit out at 'suicidal' protests by Greenpeace

re: Frank Urquhart reports, "GREENPEACE activists were yesterday accused of endangering the lives of Scottish trawlermen after launching the second wave of "suicidal" direct action against cod trawlers operating in the northern North Sea. /The group deliberately disrupted fishermen operating 40 miles from Shetland. Dressed in a survival suit and clinging to a buoy with a placard proclaiming "Stop battering cod", a Greenpeace protester jumped into the sea in the path of two vessels which were pair trawling off Unst by dragging a huge net between them..."...

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