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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9889

25 April 2009
Contents Publication in full By article 15 / 42
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/fisheries
Spain requests protection for its shipping fleet against Somali pirates

Luxembourg, 24/04/2009 (Agence Europe) - Since the deployment of the EU's military operation Atalanta in the Gulf of Aden, the number of pirate attacks on freight and fishing ships and pleasure boats has fallen but Somali pirates have started attacking ships further to the south, in the waters off the Seychelles and the north-east of Madagascar, an area where the EU tuna fleet operates. No EU ships fish in Somali waters but the four dozen EU tuna ships fishing in the Indian Ocean, mainly...

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