Fishing for the motives that lie behind piracy

Attacks on vessels can often be attributed to social deprivation in coastal regions

Sean Kane - Wednesday 5 March 2008

WHEN a ship was hijacked off the coast of Somalia in early January, the assailants made more than a ransom demand: they issued a statement of purpose.

Rejecting the ‘pirate’ moniker, a spokesman identified the hijackers as the Ocean Salvation Corps and accused the Russian-registered Svitzer Korsakov of involvement in the “environ...

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