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Japan's Most Famous Tuna Buyer Says He Turned Somali Pirates into Fishermen (www.japaninsides.com)
29 points by robaato 2 hours ago | 8 comments

• jeffybefffy519 an hour ago

Somali pirates WERE fishermen before being pirates... They turned to piracy to combat other countries fishing their waters.

• happyopossum 24 minutes ago

That’s a great story, with very little attachment to reality.

• dmbche 2 minutes ago

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy_off_the_coast_of_Somali...

Maybe read the first paragraph

• readthenotes1 32 minutes ago

And then they turn to piracy for its own sake because they realized how lucrative it was

• IncreasePosts 31 minutes ago

No, the pirates are organized crime syndicates. They are not the same people who were fishing the waters 35 years ago

• mikeatlas 44 minutes ago

> Both things can be true.

Ughhh I hear this like 5x a day now. It's the new emdashery.

• helpfulclippy 7 minutes ago

Unless someone is a structural engineer or something, I never want to hear the term "load-bearing" again.

• victorhooi 2 minutes ago

Aha...gold star =)...10 points to Gryffindor....well played, Sir.