Local fishermen were enraged, even more so when it turned out that the ship's fishingpermit had been forged by a corrupt official on the Yemeni mainland.
On an unseasonably chilly night in Manhattan a gaggle of businessmen, anglers and fishing guides gathered together for an auction and dinner in the name of saving bonefish, tarpon and permit, three species that haunt the flats and beguile anglers from Florida to the Bahamas to various far-flung Pacific atolls.