Greenpeace protests against Spanish tuna ship - Reuters

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Source: Reuters

Greenpeace protests against Spanish tuna ship
Tue May 27, 2008 4:25am EDT

By Michael Perry

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Greenpeace staged a high-seas protest
against a Spanish-owned tuna fishing ship in the South
Pacific on Tuesday, dropping a 25 meter (75 feet) floating
banner "No Fish, No Future" into its net.

Greenpeace ship Esperanza had been tailing the Albatun Ters
for five days, claiming it is the biggest tuna catching
vessel in the world, and on Tuesday launched a protest as
the ship was fishing off the Phoenix Islands in Kiribati.

The banner was dropped into the vessel's trawling net in an
attempt to stop the ship from retrieving the net and using
it again, but the move failed to prevent the ship from
hauling the net back in.

"Early this morning we caught it fishing inside Kiribati
waters and took action," Lagi Toribau, Greenpeace Australia
Pacific Oceans Campaigner on board the Esperanza, told
Reuters by telephone.

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