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Threats to the Oceans

Publication | 17 November, 2005 at 10:28

"There's enough on this planet for everyone's needs but not for everyone's greed"Mahatma GandhiShort summary of the key threats to our oceans - industrial and destructive fishing, wholesale stealing of fish stocks, fish farming, pollution and...

Marine Reserves – a solution to ocean destruction

Publication | 17 November, 2005 at 10:27

Three quarters of the world’s fish stocks are under threat from over fishing accordingto the United Nations. Our oceans are vast, but not limitless. They give life to theplanet and contain 80 percent of all life on it. They provide the primary...

Freedom for the seas for now and for the future

Publication | 28 April, 2005 at 2:00

Greenpeace proposals to revolutionise ocean governance

Deep, Deep Trouble: Regional Fisheries Management Organisations, the UN Fish Stocks...

Publication | 15 March, 2005 at 1:00

Late last year, the United Nations General Assembly in its Fisheries Resolution expressed concern at the loss of sharks, albatross, fin-fish species and marine turtles as a result of incidental mortality, vulnerability of shark populations to...

Fishing piracy killing off Mediterranean tuna

Press release | 24 May, 2006 at 2:00

Bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean is being driven to the brink of extinction, by unscrupulous fishing piracy and ineffective management, a new Greenpeace report reveals today. The report, "Where have all the tuna gone?" highlights the need for...

Make Piracy History

Press release | 27 February, 2006 at 1:00

After spending 73 days at sea defending the whales in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, the Greenpeace ship MY Esperanza is preparing to set sail again, this time to turn world attention on the plague of pirate fishing (1). Every day, in every...

17 Governments Join Greenpeace call for end to Southern Ocean Whaling

Press release | 17 January, 2006 at 1:00

Greenpeace welcomed today, on its global day of action to save the whales, a call submitted by 17 Governments to the Government of Japan to "cease its lethal scientific research on whales and assure the return of the vessels" from the Southern...

Defending Our Oceans, Protecting the Whales

Press release | 18 November, 2005 at 1:00

We are facing a growing wave of ocean extinction; our seas have reached a tipping point, with scores of species, fish, birds and mammals edging toward extinction (1). In response, Greenpeace is launching its most ambitious ship expedition ever to...

Greenpeace Acts to Expose High Seas Destruction as United Nations Talks of Protection...

Press release | 8 June, 2004 at 2:00

The Greenpeace flagship, Rainbow Warrior, today exposed the reality of the most destructive fishing practice on the high seas, after discovering the New Zealand flagged "Amaltal Voyager'' bottom trawl fishing in international waters of the Tasman...

Fish and sex trade

Feature story | 13 October, 2006 at 2:00

Fishing and prostitution might be the two oldest professions. But the exploitation of both is creating new vulnerabilities for Pacific islands as the whole world increasingly comes to fish in its waters. Ben Bohane reports from Kiribati.

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