JT and Jeremys right,
Biopiracy is what corrupt fisheries officials engage in every time they support, sanction and approve of the smuggling out of resources without fair compensation to their own people.
If the 'precious commodity' was in fact stolen without the countrys own complicity...then the notion is at least worth discussing. If it is shipped out with commodity clearances, fisheries and customs seals and signatures and health certificates....then whos the 'pirate?'
Receiving stolen and smuggled property is not what generally happens on airfright in the daytime. The guantlet of govt. officials on both sides of the ocean can intercept if ever a nations laws are violated.
But heres a good one;
Suppose you agree that reparations are in order and that a collective money pot must be created to compensate the victims....who in this forum is innocent enough to ever think that a peso or a rupiah would ever make it out of bureaucrats offices in Manila or Jakarta?
Bogor [ Indo fishery seat ] and BFAR would love to handle it.
As they both sanction every crime against their own marine environments ever listed here...daily....wheres the piracy?
If anything...its home grown bio-treason...or bio-corruption.
Indo and Philippine fisheries have shameful records in terms of protecting their own national interests...before and after their respective 20 year long dict
atorships. What continues to be their excuse besides love of foreign money?
The sell-out of their own patrimony is bio-piracy? Gimme a break.
Steve