NETHERLANDS: LEADERS OF FISHERMEN BLOCKADE DUTCH PORTS TO DEMAND COMPENSATION FOR COD FISHING BAN

Record ID: 649169

  • Title: NETHERLANDS: LEADERS OF FISHERMEN BLOCKADE DUTCH PORTS TO DEMAND COMPENSATION FOR COD FISHING BAN
  • Date: 2nd March 2001
  • Summary: HOOK OF HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS (MARCH 1, 2001) (REUTERS) 1. LV PAN BOATS AT SEA BLOCKING ENTRY TO THE WATERWAY; VIEWS THROUGH BOAT WINDOW; SHIPPING VESSEL WITH A BANNER READING "WE WILL ONLY GO AWAY IF WE GET MONEY" (4 SHOTS) 0.56 2. MV FISHERMEN INSIDE BOAT CLEANING FISHING NET PAN FISHING BOATS AT SEA 1.07 3. (SOUNDBITE) (Dutch) ERIC BRUNKMAN, FISHERMAN SAYING "We lying here with about forty ships in the water way because we are fed up that we always have to take all the consequences ourselves. We are only going to move if they promise us compensation and opening up the closed area." 1.31 4. SLV MORE VIEWS OF BOATS BLOCKADING; VIEW FROM PIER (5 SHOTS) 2.25 Initials Script is copyright Reuters Limited. All rights reserved
  • Embargoed: 17th March 2001 12:00
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  • Location: HOOK OF HOLLAND, NETHERLANDS
  • Country: Netherlands
  • Reuters ID: LVA39RIIWI7JT4HAB85OY0FVHMNQ
  • Story Text: Leaders of fishermen blockading Dutch ports to demand
    compensation for a cod fishing ban said on Thursday (March 1)
    they hoped to end the protest in the evening after a
    government pledge to submit proposals.

    More than 100 vessels were blocking the entrances to
    Rotterdam -- the world's biggest port -- and Amsterdam
    harbours, officials said.

    The fishermen are angry at loss of earnings because of the
    European Union and Norway's decision to impose a ten-week ban
    on cod fishing from February 14 in a large area of the North
    Sea in an emergency move to stave off extinction of the fish
    there.

    Fisherman Eric Brunkman said about 40 vessels were on
    blockade at the point where he was stationed near Hook of
    Holland.

    He said the fishermen would not end their blockade before
    they had received compensation and the opening up of fishing
    grounds closed to them at the present time.
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