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"en.20120510.69.4-417-750"2
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"I believe it is utterly inappropriate for the EU as a supranational European organisation to be policing the coast off Africa. Piracy is a major problem and impacts around the world. Recent high profile cases involving British tourists have brought the issue under the media spotlight, and it is of the utmost importance that the international community cooperate to prevent this damaging illegal industry that was responsible for 15 deaths last year alone. Yet it is not just policing that will combat the threat of piracy. The international community also needs to examine the root causes of the proliferation of this criminality. The EU has contributed to the increasing incidence of piracy in East African seas by over-fishing African waters under unjust trade deals. EU trawlers indiscriminately dredge oceans around the world for fish, leaving native communities, many of which are under-mechanised and wholly dependent upon fishing for self-sufficiency, unable to harvest the sort of catch they need to earn a decent living. The international community should look into the foreign exploitation of East African waters as a primary cause of the increase of piracy. The reason the EU wishes to police East African coasts is to protect their own commercial interests."@en1
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