At least 56 sailors have been killed after a Russian fishing trawler sank in the Sea of Okhotsk, raising questions about whether the owner and crew had cut too many corners in pursuit of a big catch.
Well, I'm pulling my sardines out of the sea and putting them back on to Eric Cantona's trawler.
It was at this point that he uttered his now infamous statement that "when the seagulls follow the trawler it is because they think sardines will be thrown into the sea".
Their defence: running a trawler for a week costs up to 70,000 rupees ($1,300) in diesel alone.
VENUS and NEPTUNE have suffered from corroded instruments, underwater landslides and damage from trawler nets.
See articleChina denied reports that it had banned exports of so-called rare-earth elements to Japan after a dispute over the detention of a Chinese fishing trawler captain.
In 2010 a clash there involving a Chinese trawler caused a serious row.
Now, though trawler fuel is tax-free in the EU (a walloping subsidy, by the way), high oil prices make some trawlers uneconomical every time they leave port.The EU, meaning Brussels bureaucrats, knows the CFP is crazy.
A few nights later a North Korean patrol intercepted his trawler about 50 miles south of the Northern Limit Line, a disputed maritime border between the two Koreas.
The potentially placatory government of the Democratic Party of Japan was alienated by China's aggressive behaviour after the detention of a Chinese trawler captain in disputed waters a year ago.
After a Chinese trawler on September 7th rammed two of its coastguard vessels in waters off the disputed, Japanese-administered, islands known as Senkaku in Japan and Diaoyu in China, Japan detained the captain for a fortnight.
