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Fishing trawler Yu Wen 101 hauling in its net with the Rainbow Warrior II in the background, Pacific Ocean. (Photo courtesy of Greenpeace.)
Pacific Scoop:
Report – By PMC Newsdesk.
Greenpeace Pacific Oceans campaigner, Duncan Williams, has hit out at a meeting held in Brisbane as a ‘disgrace’. Williams states: “Foreign tuna industries are preventing Pacific Island countries from protecting their tuna by not agreeing to a timely process or criteria to cut the number of boats on the water to a sustainable level.”
New tuna fishing technologies used by foreign fishing fleets are catching more tuna and other fish species than has ever been possible in the past: “If we continue to fish at this rate we are going to empty our oceans,” Duncan Williams said. Read more »
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