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Summary of UN Report: Impacts of Fishing

Publication | July 14, 2006 at 0:00

On July 14, 2006, the UN Secretary General released a Report on actions taken by States and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) to protect cold-water corals, seamounts and other vulnerable marine ecosystems from destructive...

NAFO case study

Publication | June 6, 2005 at 0:00

The Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation: A case study in how RFMOs regularly fail to manage our Oceans.

Red herrings

Publication | June 10, 2005 at 0:00

High-seas bottom trawl red herrings: Debunking claims of sustainability in the bottom trawling industry.

Jobs and bottom trawling

Publication | June 14, 2005 at 0:00

How bottom trawling hits jobs and the sea floor.

Industrial whaling factsheet

Publication | November 18, 2005 at 0:00

Call me Ishmael...! Whaling folklore speaks of tradition, of the noble hunt, of man pitting his wits against the ferocious sea and against mighty intelligent leviathans. But the history of whaling is far from glamorous, far from something to...

Whale sanctuary under siege

Publication | November 18, 2005 at 0:00

Established in 1994, the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary is under siege like never before. This year nearly one thousand whales can expect to find no quarter or refuge in the protected waters around the Antarctic. They will be hunted down and...

Bringing the international whaling commission into the 21st century

Publication | April 22, 2010 at 6:42

The International Whaling Commission (IWC) has been deadlocked for many years. The resulting entrenched dispute about whale hunting and conservation and the role of the IWC in the 21st century dominates discussions and prevents important steps to...

FACTSHEET: Whales

Publication | November 12, 2010 at 15:07

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.

Bluefin tunas

Publication | August 11, 2010 at 15:40

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.

Greenpeace Criteria for Sustainable Fisheries

Publication | March 13, 2009 at 0:00

What does sustainable mean? Which criteria defines if a fishery is sustainable? In simple terms, a sustainable fishery is one whose practices can be maintained indefinitely without reducing the targeted species’ ability to maintain its...

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