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Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development
An international organization helping governments tackle the economic, social and governance challenges of a globalised economy.
OECD– Stopping the High Seas RobbersComing to Grips with Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fisheries on the High Seas
(background paper written by Hon. Simon Upton and Vangelis Vitalis for OECD Round Table on Sustainable Development – “The sustainable development of global fisheries, with particular reference to enforcement [against illegal, unreported and unregulated fisheries] on the high seas” 6th June 2003)
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/45/21018775.PDF

 

Why the world needs a time-out on high-seas bottom trawling
June 2005
http://www.mcbi.org/publications/pub_pdfs/TimeOut_english.pdf

 

High Seas Fishing – International Problems Created by the Law of the Sea http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1309/is_n2_v34/ai_19898024

 

Parks:  Protected Areas Programme – High Seas Marine Protected Areas 2005
http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/pdf/parks_hsmpajun06.pdf

 

TerraNature  November 2006 - bottom trawling
http://www.terranature.org/bottomTrawling_UNmoratoriumBlock.htm

 

Fishing Companies Announce World’s First Voluntary Closures to High-Seas Deepwater Trawling (Southern Indian Ocean)  July 6, 2006.   http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/BU0607/S00061.htm

 

Bottom Trawling ‘Ban’ is Cynical PR Spin  July 6, 2006 http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/PA0607/S00080.htm

 

European Trawlers are Destroying the Oceans http://www.oceana.org/index.php?id=1022&L=1%5C%5C%27%29%3B#c3959