Global fish stocks are plummeting. Industrial fishers are using increasingly sophisticated technology to locate and catch more and more fish. They’re outstripping nature’s ability to replenish the seas.
When whaling first boomed in the 17th century, it must have seemed as though whales would never disappear. Yet, by the mid 1940s their numbers had been drastically reduced.
The 7th meeting of the WCPFC has the opportunity to show global leadership in precautionary and ecosystem-based tuna management by agreeing to implement a number of key measures that will address the deepening crisis facing the regions tuna...
New Zealand seafood retailers have fallen well behind the world’s major markets when it comes to setting seafood sustainability standards, a Greenpeace report reveals.
Tokyo, Japan, January 28, 2011 – Greenpeace is calling for the official investigation into systematic embezzlement(1) within Japan’s whaling programme to be re-opened following disciplinary action against whaling officials for accepting whale...
Kaoshiung, Taiwan - A blacklisted tuna factory ship was blocked from leaving port today by Greenpeace climbers from the Rainbow Warrior. They locked themselves to the anchor chain while campaigners called on Taiwan's Fisheries Agency to...
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December 23, 2010 TOKYO: After two and a half years of hard work in Japan to expose corruption at the heart of the whaling industry - we have a significant victory!
The increased quota for southern bluefin tuna puts the species on the fast track to extinction, says Greenpeace.
Greenpeace is demanding that Japan’s Government finally end its commercial whaling programme and re-open an investigation into corruption scandals inside the industry, following today’s announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and...
Tomorrow Governments will begin a week long meeting in Chile to negotiate a new fisheries regime for the South Pacific region will have their best chance yet to fully implement commitments they made at the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA)...
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza sighted the stricken Japanese government whaling factory ship Nisshin Maru at approximately 07.00 (New Zealand daylight time) this morning.
Greenpeace activists today handed out Valentines day cards and flowers to Japanese tourists arriving in the country in Christchurch and Auckland, and flowers to the Japanese Embassy in Wellington, with the message: "We love Japan – but whaling...
The Greenpeace ship, Esperanza will sail from Auckland midday tomorrow, as part of a global campaign to bring an end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary.
The Icelandic government's claims of sustainable whaling were harpooned today, after Greenpeace revealed that around 200 tonnes of meat and blubber from endangered fin whales are still in storage, waiting to be tested for chemical contamination...
The Greenpeace ship Esperanza is en route to the Southern Ocean as part of a massive global campaign to stop whaling in the Sanctuary.
Today's announcement that areas would be closed to bottom trawling showed that both the fishing industry and Government acknowledge the need to protect deep-sea life from the destruction caused by bottom trawling, but warned that it will not...
Southern and Atlantic bluefin tuna stocks have declined dramatically since the onset of industrialised fishing. Southern bluefin are Critically Endangered, and the two Atlantic stocks are Endangered and Critically Endangered.
In a international report released today the organization says the Ross Sea is in critical need of protection as a marine reserve and should be off limits to all fishing and industrial activity.
Orange roughy fisheries are a testament to unsustainable fishing.
The hoki fishery is now New Zealand’s second largest fishery, after quota cuts were implemented following a rapid downward trend in the stock size.
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