Somalia: Stealing My Fish, Adding Insult to Economic Injury
Mar 20 2006 Stealing fish from another country’s territorial waters is a common fish piracy operation; however, for Yemenis being aware catching fish outside their national territorial waters is haraam (forbidden), and still, continuously scooping out Somaliland’s rich marine resources is best described as unjust—an international theft.
To Yemen being in the jurisdiction of another country or in Somaliland’s waters is irrelevant, never mind unjust. The question is for how long can we sit back and watch our fish stolen? These incursions continued for the past fifteen years, but very recently fish piracy became unbearable. Another mind-boggling question is; wasn’t the ban of Somaliland’s livestock harsh enough?
Since the ban of livestock imposed on Somaliland by the Arabs, this illegal fishing is yet another economic slap in the face of Somaliland by a neighboring Arab country—namely Yemen. Because of our country’s “failure” to comply with the Arab demands—another