In the 1960s and 1970s, foreign Commercial trawler were permitted to fish in the area.

Earnings are growing annually from licensing fees paid by foreign trawlers fishing in Seychelles' territorial waters.

The phenomenon arose as an attempt by local fishermen to protect their livelihood from illegal fishing by foreign trawlers.

Oh... and ban foreign trawlers from our territorial waters.

American fishermen and the Coast Guard have suspected for more than a year that foreign trawlers were fishing illgeally in the American zone.

The fishery's current woes can be traced to the Magnuson Act of 1976, which drove foreign trawlers from a 200-mile zone along the coast.

The inshore fish stocks started to decline with the introduction of domestic and foreign trawlers.

Following the outbreak of the civil war in the early 1990s, foreign trawlers began to illegally fish in the unpatrolled waters off of Eyl's coastline.

Many of the pirates say they began as fishermen who lost their livelihoods because of foreign trawlers, but without doubt huge profits are being made through piracy.

I went back then, for I was cold and tired and I'd no desire to make contact with the crew of a foreign trawler.