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DESTRUCTION

As time goes by boats die 
because of getting old.
Apart from these natural dead
the main problem is that wooden boats have been, in the last ten years,  destroyed in a big scale.
The reasons for this are the EC 
laws for reducing and renewing
the fishing boats
fleet. 

For this politic some funds are 
given for the fishermen boat 
owners: one to stop being a fishermen and destroy the boat, other to make a new boat and  destroy the old one.  
Only for boats over 25 ton
the destruction is not a duty.

In Portugal the fishing boat fleet was mostly 
of wood and 92,7% of 
it was under 25 ton.
(in1995)


That is the reason 
why so many boats 
have been destroyed 
in the last ten years:

 

Sofia Trincão . adripcacela@yahoo.com