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Avatar at Home? Those pesky Somali pirates have hampered the pillage of East African seas, leading to higher fish catches by locals by TokyoTom

As a follow-up to my earlier posts (note: link fixed) on how the rape of East African fisheries ($200-300 million per year) & ocean dumping by Western nations led to the rise of Somali piracy, I just ran across this interesting recent report by AP...

Somali piracy flows from the greater and continuing Western theft and abuse of Somali marine resources by TokyoTom

The January 4 Huffington Post carries a perceptive column by Johann Hari , a writer for the Independent , who explains that Somali piracy (which I have commented on here and here ) has roots in the Western theft and abuse of Somali marine resources -...