Hi Dave and friends on the Espy! You have many readers who are not acquainted with fishing vessels - like me. Can you please explain (with drawings of specific fishing-gear) the differences between gill-netters, bottom-trawlers, pelagic-trawlers, purse-seiners, liners, etc....Thanks!

Dear Dave and Esperanza crew,
I have heard many tales of the magic of rainbows and Greenpeace and have not always been a believer, however, I now have one of my own to add. Earlier this year I was working in Miami, helping defend Greenpeace from a completely unwarranted prosecution by the United States government. It's a long story which you can read in the archives of the website and while we felt we had right on our side, they of course had the full weight of the US Justice Department on theirs and they weren't messing around.
The morning of the first day in court we drove over the causeway in Miami to court and out of nowhere appeared a HUGE rainbow!
Needless to say we won the case!
You may find bottom trawlers, you may find whaling boats, you may find successful court cases at the end of those rainbows, but you can guarantee you will always find hope, optimism and an absolute determination beyond those gloroious archs.
I wish you well on your quest and am sailing with you in spirit.
Sara
x
PS. there was a great rainbow here today by the way - but then again it had been bucketing down with rain and all I found was a blocked drain - so I would keep checking the radar too!!