Source: The Economist

The tuna industry associations OPAGAG and ANABAC, which together represent 100% of the Spanish tropical tuna fleet, yesterday rejected to transport private security on  board their vessels  in the Indian Ocean.

In a press release, the boat owners explained their waiver to use the services of private security companies to provide protection for their vessels, given they consider this source unsafe, inadequate and impossible to reserve requirements.

In fact, the boat owners believe that, no private system can be compared to the professionalism and legal security provided by Spanish marines, whose expertise in an environment as complex as the sea and the close follow-up out of military security protocols, ensure that all actions comply with the law.

Finally, they reiterate that the only solution for them is the transport of marines on board Spanish flagged tuna purse seiners as did the did the French government.  They are even willing to pay for the costs that his may convey, as so they have repeatedly informed the Government.