an advantage of getting fishing boats refloated would be distribution
of aid. news broadcasts say aid is tied up at airports with roads and rail
washed out along the coast. scarce helicopters are being used to fly
material to coastal villages. apparently the Indian ocean is still
functioning and could be used to distribute materail along the coast if
there were boats in the water. seems all the damages is withing a mile or
so of the water. I think it's probably just the thinking of the
technically advanced piscatorially challenged people in charge.

re Burma. Odd that so few people have been killed given what we are seeing
about north Sumatra, Thailand, and the Andaman Islands. Burma has a lot
more coastline along the Malay peninsula than Thailand. It's not as
developed and maybe not as densly populated. Burma certainly would not
have the tourist resorts.

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