End of the line for foreign-made fishing boats in Indonesia?

Mongabay
By <a class="author-link"…Mar 14, 2016, 2:26 am114 pts
Indonesian fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti is purging the archipelago of foreign-made fishing boats, which she believes are being widely and used as fronts for illegal foreign fishing operations. The action follows a 2015 audit of 1,132 foreign-built boats. Of those, 328 were cited for major infractions,…

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