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Overfishing & Illegal Fishing in RSSOverfishing and illegal fishing are threatening the biggest ecological systems in the world and decreasing marine resources that are vital for the survival of hundreds of millions of people.

IPS investigates overfishing and illegal fishing, and their effects on marine ecosystems and coastal communities worldwide, with support of MarViva, an international organisation working for conservation of marine and coastal resources.

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Biodiversity - One Planet - 1.4 million species
Sustainable Development
Millennium Development Goals
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Tuna Fisheries Must Make Short-Term Sacrifices
Julio Godoy interviews marine biologist MARÍA JOSÉ JUAN JORDÁ *
BERLIN - For the last ten years, environmentalists and marine biologists have repeatedly warned that the world’s tuna populations, and particularly bluefin tuna, are being overfished to the verge of extinction.
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KAZAKHSTAN
Sea Reclaimed as Lake
By Christopher Pala
AKBASTE - Just six years after the completion of a dike that raised the level of the northern part of the Aral Sea by two metres and slashed its salt content by two-thirds, this remote Central Asian lake once synonymous with ecological catastrophe has become a model of environmental recovery.
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ICELAND
US Moves Diplomatically Against Whaling
By Lowana Veal
REYKJAVIK - U.S. President Barack Obama has decided to impose diplomatic rather than trade sanctions on Iceland because of the country’s whale-hunting activities.
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Fish Swim in Israel’s Desert
By Pierre Klochendler
KIBBBUTZ MASHABEI SADEH, NEGEV DESERT - "It wasn't easy to convince people that growing fish in the desert makes sense," reminisces marine biologist Samuel Appelbaum, peering through the opaque water where thousands of barramundi are being harvested.
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EGYPT
Fishing Dangerously for Quick Net Worth
By Cam McGrath
ALEXANDRIA - Ali Mohsen knows how to tell a good fish story. The wiry, white-haired Egyptian mariner weaves a yarn about his childhood days when the sea was so full of fish that one could simply dangle a hand net over the side of the boat and pull up a seafood dinner. This morning, his crew spent hours out at sea with only four kilos of small fish to show for it.
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EUROPE
The Harmless Invasion of the Pacific Oyster
By Julio Godoy*
BERLIN - In the 1970s, French oyster breeders introduced the Pacific oyster (Crassostrea gigas) to the Bay of Biscay to diversify the area’s species and develop the commercial oyster industry.
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CENTRAL AMERICA
Big Fish Eat the Small Fish
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - Thousands of small-scale fishers in Central America are fighting for survival in the face of free trade deals, transnational corporations, mega tourism projects and pollution that is harming marine life.
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JAPAN
Whaling Policy in Choppy Waters
By Suvendrini Kakuchi
TOKYO - After years of stiff resistance, the Japanese government has announced a temporary halt to its controversial research whaling programme in the Antarctic Ocean, a decision that will finally stir the debate to promote sustainable fishing, say conservationists here.
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INDIA
Fishers in Survival Battle With Turtles
By Manipadma Jena
BHUBANESWAR, India - A growing number of endangered olive ridley sea turtles have been getting killed in Eastern India’s coastal state Orissa by mechanized vessels defying a fishing ban on one of the world’s largest turtle sanctuaries, Gahirmatha.
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ENERGY-MALAWI
Rise in Paraffin Prices Leaves Traders in the Dark
By Claire Ngozo
LAKE MALAWI, Malawi - Increasing energy prices have caused anxiety for many small-scale Malawian traders, especially those in rural areas and peri-urban areas who rely on paraffin for lighting their business premises.
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INDIA
Pollution Threatens Kashmir’s Fish Species
By Athar Parvaiz
SRINAGAR - Several species of fish unique only to the waters of Kashmir are in danger of extinction due to high levels of pollution, environmentalists say.
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WORLD SOCIAL FORUM
Fisheries Need Transparent Regulation
By Isolda Agazzi
DAKAR - Senegalese fishers participating in the 2011 World Social Forum (WSF) warned governments to "wake up to the ethical and transparent regulation of access to fisheries" to halt the overexploitation of this increasingly scarce resource.
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EL SALVADOR
Small-Scale Fishers Want a Slice of the Sea
By Edgardo Ayala
SAN SALVADOR - For the third time in 10 years, small-scale fishers in El Salvador are trying to get Congress to modify the country's fishing law, to create a five-mile exclusion zone along the coast where the industrial fleet would be banned from fishing.
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More than half of the fish species recently evaluated in the Mediterranean are in danger of being overexploited. But some restaurants in Spain still offer traditional dishes of immature fish to paying customers.
Fisheries experts in Egypt and Vietnam hope that combining Africa’s leading freshwater fish producer and one of Asia’s fastest growing mariculture sectors will lead to an aquaculture industry that feeds growing populations and generate export revenues.
The EU is expected to present proposals on reforming its 40-year-old fisheries policy by next year and stricter measures are a given.
In the Southern Caribbean, along the Venezuelan coast, fishing is on the decline, surface waters are warming, rivers discharge tonnes of waste into the sea -- the waves seem to be licking the wounds left by these phenomena and devastating fishing practices like bottom trawling.
The international demand for lobster have brought fishermen and environmental organisations in the Mexican Pacific and Atlantic Ocean together to protect the resource, but the financial benefits of the new practices are slow in coming.

  Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES)
  COMplus Sustainable Development Communication Alliance
  UN Framework Convention on Climate Change
  UN Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen
  ASEAN Wildlife Enforcement Network
  ASEAN Wildlife Trade Initiative
  Biodiversity Liaison Group
  EU – Wildlife trade in the EU
  FAO activities in relation to commercially exploited aquatic species
  GRASP – Great Apes Survival Project
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  UNEP-WCMC – World Conservation Monitoring Centre

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