Another village has set up an enterprising share scheme to finance new oyster beds and skiffs to work them.

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On our first day of exploration, we boarded small skiffs and headed up the Tahuayo tributary in search of wildlife.

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Yet they seem almost powerless to spot or intercept the small inflatable skiffs employed by pirates to sneak up on their victims.

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Participants use traditional rowing skiffs in a five-day journey upriver.

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It is as though business book writers witnessed the demise of the Titanic and concluded that smart companies only build skiffs and schooners, steering well clear of massive ocean-liners.

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Caribiana Sea Skiffs was in fact on life support.

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Federigan of the cargo ship Delmas Nacala, nominated by the Philippines, for out-manoeuvring, over a period of three hours, pirates in two skiffs, 600 miles off the coast of Seychelles, in March 2010.

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But before we go to calls, we've got to take a break, but I also wanted to ask you about something called skiffs, and this is apparently the great competition within the agency , is how much skiff space you've got.

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