You Are Here:
On Monday, 28 October, outside Hobart’s Wrest Point Casino, business-suited activists depicting CCAMLR delegates slept on through the news bulletin emitting from their clock radio.
The news was not good. Pirate fishers are wreaking havoc on Antarctica’s underwater ecosystem while CCAMLR sleeps.
CCAMLR is meeting in Hobart to consider, among other things, granting a legal fishing "quota" to Russia and Uruguay – two countries who are already fishing illegally.
In the past two and a half years, vessels from Russia, Uruguay and Korea have stolen 13,799 tonnes, (AUD$270 million) of toothfish from CCAMLR waters.
Greenpeace estimates that about 30 pirate ships are operating in Antarctica. These vessels launder their catches through CCAMLR’s catch documentation scheme, and the pirates then demand even higher prices for the fish.
Come on, CCAMLR. How could you even consider it?
Greenpeace called on CCAMLR to implement an independent vessel monitoring system to safeguard Antarctica’s marine and bird life.
The news was not good. Pirate fishers are wreaking havoc on Antarctica’s underwater ecosystem while CCAMLR sleeps.
CCAMLR is meeting in Hobart to consider, among other things, granting a legal fishing "quota" to Russia and Uruguay – two countries who are already fishing illegally.
In the past two and a half years, vessels from Russia, Uruguay and Korea have stolen 13,799 tonnes, (AUD$270 million) of toothfish from CCAMLR waters.
Greenpeace estimates that about 30 pirate ships are operating in Antarctica. These vessels launder their catches through CCAMLR’s catch documentation scheme, and the pirates then demand even higher prices for the fish.
Come on, CCAMLR. How could you even consider it?
Greenpeace called on CCAMLR to implement an independent vessel monitoring system to safeguard Antarctica’s marine and bird life.
