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Smugglers are using tuna boats to transport cocaine by Dick Russell Defenders of Wildlife - Summer 2002 edition, http://www.defenders.org/defendersmag/issues/summer02/tunadolphin.html (also see http://www.eurocbc.org/page820.html and http://www.thirdworldtraveler.com/New_Global_Economy/tuna_drugs_ Mexico.html) "Last December, after several weeks of surveillance, the U.S. Coast Guard boarded the purse-seine vessel Macel, observed in an area closed to yellowfin tuna fishing off Mexico’s southwestern coastline. Found hidden in special compartments, under tons of yellowfin tuna, were some 10.5 tons of pure cocaine with a street value of $500 million." Organized Crime and Dolphin Safety by Paul Spong of Orcalab and Ben White of Animal Welfare Institute ECO, the daily summary and commentary sheet of the annual meeting of the International Whaling Commission (IWC), IWC ECO'99 Vol. LI No.4 stories, http://www.greenpeacefoundation.com/news/eco4.html#crime "The dirty secret behind the massacre of dolphins by tuna fishermen in the eastern tropical Pacific is that organized crime syndicates own virtually all of the tuna fleets and canneries in Latin America-- and use these companies to smuggle cocaine and heroin throughout the world and to launder narco-profits." U.S. launches aerial surveillance of border by Jane Armstrong Globe and Mail, 21 August 2004, http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/ RTGAM.20040820.wxbord0821/BNStory/National/ Bellingham, Wash. -- "The Blackhawk helicopter hovered over the Pacific Ocean, its pilot pointing out the coves and bays preferred by drug dealers when they bring their wares from Canada."