Browsing by Subject "industrial fisheries"

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    • Environmental 'Davids' fight giant industrial fishers with rocks 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (Philippine Daily Inquirer, September 4, 2022, on page B2)
      Greenpeace UK said Friday it had dropped 18 large boulders on the seabed in a marine conservation zone off the coast of southwest England to prevent “destructive” industrial fishing. The environmental campaigners sailed ...

    • Japan vows to fight global trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna 

      Hasegawa, Kyoko (Manila Bulletin, March 15, 2010, on page B-9)
      Japan vowed Thursday to fight a global trade ban on Atlantic bluefin tuna, the pricey mainstay of sushi and sashimi, as Europe and the United States step up moves to protect the species. The world's largest consumer of ...

    • Plenty of fish in the sea? maybe not, says study 

      (Manila Bulletin, January 21, 2016, on page B-8)
      About 109 million tonnes of fish were caught in 2010 — 30 percent higher than the 77 million tonnes reported to the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), according to the study. This meant that about 32 million ...

    • UN begins negotiations on treaty to protect imperiled high seas 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, September 3, 2018, on page S2/7)
      United Nations on Tuesday kicked-off talks on a 2020 treaty that would regulate the high seas, which cover half the planet yet lack adequate environmental protection. Four sessions of talks, each lasting two weeks, are ...

    • World's nations meet in Paris to rescue ocean life this time 

      Agence France-Presse (AFP) (BusinessWorld, March 28, 2016, on page S1/7)
      It took a decade to get to the negotiating table, and it could easily take another to finish the job, but UN talks in New York to safeguard life in the high seas finally begin in earnest on Monday (March 28).