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fisheries resource paper
Many towns, cities and countries base their cultural identities and livelihoods on fishing and fisheries.  However, economic and environmental issues often overshadow cultural value.  Lack of ... attempts to regulate fishing equipment, timing and seasonality, as well as overall size of fishing fleets, are an extension of the quota idea to other aspects of the fishing industry.  Changes ...
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SoundNet - Ocean Crisis Caused by Destructive Fishing
After a legal challenge by the Turtle Island Restoration Network, the National Marine Fisheries Service applied time and area closures for gillnet fishing fleets off the West Coast. Bottom Trawling Called Worst of All Another damaging fishing method which conservation groups hope to see ...
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Eco-Economy Indicators: FISH CATCH and AQUACULTURE - Resources from Earth Policy Institute
As fishing fleets expanded through the late 1980s and as fish-finding and harvesting technologies became more efficient ...
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U.S. Global Change Research Information Office
Significant climatic change ...
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EJF: Reports: Pirate Fishing
Issues Partners Reports Film Photos Success Stories EJF's pirate fishing campaign is supported by Reports: Pirate Fishing when fishing turns deadly The Environmental and Social Impacts of Illegal Trawling in ... Mediterranean. Party To The Plunder Illegal Fishing in Guinea and its links to the EU Read French version Pirates & Profiteers How Pirate Fishing Fleets are Robbing People and Oceans What's ...
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EJF: IUU fishing - Background
Why does IUU fishing occur? IUU fishing occurs worldwide, however as developed countries improve monitoring and decrease quotas, pirate fishing fleets are increasingly targeting developing nations ... and in many areas IUU fleets specifically target commercially valuable species, such as tuna, Patagonian toothfish, shrimp and lobster. However, IUU fishing can also decimate far less ...
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WWF - Problems: Poorly managed fishing
Contributing factors to the current level of overfishing include: Technological advances that have made large-scale fishing ... due to competition with fishing fleets for herring. Find out what WWF is doing! 1 Porter, G. (1998). Estimating overcapacity in the global fishing fleet. WWF 2 FAO ...
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WWF - Fishing problems: Bigger nets, faster boats
Bigger nets, faster boats Poorly managed fishing Bigger nets, faster boats Perverse subsidies Fisheries Partnership Agreements Illegal fishing Bycatch Destructive fishing practices Poor fisheries management Marine About Our Oceans Problems Poorly managed fishing ... spurred a huge expansion in fishing effort over the last 30-40 years. Today's huge industrial fishing fleets set thousands of ...
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UNEP/GRID-Arendal - Publications - In Dead Water - Impact of Unsustainable Fishing Practices on Sea Bed and Ocean Productivity
Fishing vessels are now operating at depths greater than ... , large-scale, industrial bottom trawling of their tradional fishing grounds (often carried out unregulated illegally and unreported by distant fishing fleets) ruins local fisheries with devastating effects on local ...
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Anatomy of an anti-fishing campaign
Evidently just saving turtles isn't enough for Pew/Oceana; it seems as if the two fishing fleets that have led the ... staffer (To Save the Sea Turtles: A Spanish Fishing Adventure, Charlotte Hudson, 2004-09-16, Section: Europe, Topic: Dirty Fishing), after she condescendingly writes "think fishing, no showers, foam rubber pads that ...
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