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Illegal tuna fishing in Libyan waters... How could it possibly be?

Blog entry by Sebastian Losada | 9 November, 2011 3 comments

(Or: Talk about ethics) Oil, arms, timber trade… and tuna . Crises, particularly civil unrest, can be a perfect environment for making profit, as lack of control paves the way for some unscrupulous operators to the detriment of...

Closed Doors at Paris Bluefin Tuna Summit

Blog entry by Oliver Knowles | 26 November, 2010 1 comment

I’ve been in Paris for just under two weeks attending the 17 th annual ICCAT meeting – a gathering of the fisheries managers who decide fishing quotas on bluefin tuna and other species in the year ahead. Every day, I walk the short...

A Spanish View on ICCAT: the Bluefin Tuna Summit

Blog entry by Celia Ojeda Martinez | 19 November, 2010

Celia Ojeda Martinez onboard the Arctic Sunrise during the 2010 Defending the Mediterranean expedition When I started working for Greenpeace Spain a few years ago, I knew that the bluefin tuna was an important and iconic fish...

Stories from the Rainbow Warrior: Karli on the tuna blockade

Blog entry by Dave W. | 25 November, 2010 4 comments

Let’s be clear, environmental campaigning is usually hard graft, with long hours and many frustrations. It can involve long hours sitting in a boat somewhere cold, or hot, just waiting for something to happen. It might mean attending...

Tunamobile

Image | 19 November, 2010 at 15:02

French policemen look confused as Greenpeace activists park the bluefin tunamobile in front of the ICCAT meeting venue in Paris. The specially designed ‘tuna-mobile’ has a life-size bluefin tuna and a fishing net on its roof, with a sign reading...

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ICCAT delegates at a cozy dinner cruise hosted by overfishers

Image | 23 November, 2010 at 17:47

Greenpeace France activists block a boat on the Seine River, on which the French Directorate of Fisheries invited delegates attending the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas meeting to a dinner cruise. There are...

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Rainbow Warrior the Mediterranean

Image | 23 May, 2010 at 15:30

The Rainbow Warrior is in the Mediterranean Sea - taking direct action against bluefin tuna fishing vessels. the Mediterranean is an important spawning area for the endangered Northern bluefin tuna. Greenpeace is calling for the suspension of...

Dead Bluefin Tuna

Image | 27 June, 2006 at 17:57

2006 - A dead bluefin tuna on the bottom of a transport cage. The Rainbow Warrior is in the Mediterranean for a three-month ship tour taking action on the threats to the sea and calling for a network of large-scale marine reserves to protect the...

Tuna Action against Spanish Vessel in Malta

Image | 22 June, 2009 at 18:19

Two Greenpeace activists hold a banner reading "Bluefin tuna massacre!" in front of the Spanish fishing vessel Cabo Tinoso Dos during an action to highlight the unsustainable fishing activities of such vessels, part of the industrial fleets that...

Bluefin Tuna Action in the Mediterranean

Image | 4 June, 2010 at 18:25

2010 - During an action to call for an end to bluefin tuna fishing in the Mediterranean sea, crew from one of the fishing vessels violently attack Greenpeace inflatables boats with metal gaffs. They also injured one of the activists with a...

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