Fishermen in Mexico shoot down environmental group's drone

[Judi Lynn]

Updated 11:15 am, Wednesday, December 27, 2017

MEXICO CITY (AP) — The environmental group Sea Shepherd said fishermen fired 25 shots at one of its night-vision drones in Mexico's Gulf of California, bringing it down.

Various drones have been employed to patrol the Gulf, also known as the Sea of Cortez, to combat illegal fishing and save the critically endangered vaquita marina, the world's smallest porpoise.

Poachers often set out at night to set nets for totoaba, a fish whose swim bladder is prized in China. But vaquitas often get caught in totoaba nets, causing the population to plunge to less than 30.

Sea Shepherd has been the target of demonstrations by fishermen in the past, but said the Christmas Eve shooting represented "a new level of violence."

More:
http://www.chron.com/news/world/article/Fishermen-in-Mexico-shoot-down-environmental-12457201.php

[democratisphere]

1. Night raids on fisherman, then confiscate their boats.

Perhaps that might stop them.

[maxsolomon]

2. who has jurisdiction in international waters?

the oceans are fucked. human are going to eat every fish until there's only jellyfish left.