According to Andrew Mwangura -- a hijack negotiator and activist for nonprofit monitoring group the Seafarers Assistance Program -- around 200 vessels of European origin are engaged in illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in Somali waters, despite official EU denials.
An explosion of hijackings, kidnappings and attacks on commercial vessels in the Gulf of Aden and western Indian Ocean has dominated news headlines around the world in 2009, making the 3000-kilometer Somali coastline the most feared stretch of sea on the planet.
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