| The contrast with the industrialized practices of the European and Asian fishing fleets, with whom the fishermen of Kayar now compete, could not be greater. Their trawlers routinely throw back 85 per cent of what they catch, because the fish are unsuitable, in other words, the wrong species for sale on the international markets they serve. The local fishermen can only look on in despair as they see the whole surface of the sea turned into a shimmering silver mirror of dead fish, dumped by the Korean, Portuguese and Spanish ships. What would be enough for a village to live on for a year is destroyed, and, as a result, their own catches are declining all the time. |
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