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Here
you'll find Greenpeace campaign fact sheets on pirate fishing, the ecosystems
at stake, the key international organizations charged with conserving the
Oceans and the wider problem of overfishing.
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External
Links
Other
Non-governmental organizations
International
Transport Workers' Federation
Read the report: Troubled waters fishing, pollution and FOCs
ICCAT
The International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas
is an inter-governmental fishery organization responsible for the
conservation of tunas and tuna-like species in the Atlantic Ocean
and its adjacent seas.
Isofish
A joint venture funded by conservation organizations and licensed
fishing companies, the website of the International Southern Oceans
Longline Fisheries Information Clearing House (ISOFISH), maintains
information on pirate activity and who's behind pirate fishing.
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Greenpeace
Resources
Eradicating Pirate Fishing
(Greenpeace International)
A study of the current status of tuna and tuna-like fish stocks in the Atlantic
Ocean and Mediterranean Sea.
Pirates plunder the Atlantic
(Greenpeace International)
In recent times,
however, the Atlantic Ocean and Mediterranean Sea have become targets for
plunder as industrial-scale tuna fishing fleets have proliferated, some
coming from countries half-way around the world, to cash in on rising global
demand and high tuna prices being bid in the lucrative markets of Europe,
Asia and North America.
Information
on Tuna Fishing and its effects on stocks
In Spanish (Greenpeace Spain)
Factory
Fishing and Flags of Convenience
(Greenpeace International)
THEIR SHEAR SIZE AND SOPHISTICATED FISHING TECHNOLOGIES enable them to
remain at sea for months, to engage in unregulated fishing on the high
seas, to roam as far as the Southern Ocean to pirate fish, or to illegally
poach in the waters of other countries.
Frightening
Facts: The Consequences of Overfishing and Pirate Fishing (Greenpeace
International)
FISHING GROUNDS ARE IN SERIOUS DECLINE. Many of the world's marine fish
stocks are fully-exploited, over-exploited, depleted or slowly recovering.
Species of birds are facing extinction.
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