Scorched-Earth
Fishing
The use of new fish-trawling gear is doing
incalculable damage to the seabed, destroying
essential habitat for marine life.
Mudtrails
caused by trawlers revealed
May 12, 2007, Telegraph, UK
More
images of Mud-trails from trawlers
Case
for Trawl Ban 'Overwhelming'
November 15, BBC News.
Scientists
Call for Deep-Sea Trawling Ban,
November 15, The Guardian.
No
Proof Bottom Trawling Damaging: Clearwater
Chief
November 15, CNews.
Deep-Sea
Trawling Blamed for Death of Fish Species
November 15, The Independent.
Deep-Sea
Trawling Destroying Underwater Mountains
November 16, Reuters, PlanetArk.
UN
Begins Debate on Bottom Trawling Fishing,
Canada Opposes Moratorium
November 17, BrandonSun.com.
EU
Agrees Fishing Quotas for Exotic Deepsea
Species
November 22, Reuters, PlanetArk.
U.N.
Ocean Trawling Ban Blocked by Iceland
November 24, MongaBay.com.
Moves
to Impose Trawling Ban Stymied
November 24, San Francisco Chronicle.
UN
Drive for Ban on Ocean Bottom Trawling Fails
November 24, Reuters, PlanetArk.
Deep Sea Conservation Coalition
Deep sea crisis
http://weblog.greenpeace.org/deepsea/archives/background/
High seas chase nets fish poachers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1275411.stm
Bottom
trawling news – BBC
Illegal Fishing and High-Seas Fisheries, 2004,
FAO
http://www.fao.org/newsroom/en/focus/2004/47127/article_47140en.html
March 2006 – Tough Times Ahead for
Illegal Fishers: High Seas Task Force
Announces Global Action
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/03/03_pr_high_seas.htm
Illegal
fisheries - patagonian toothfish
Patagonian
Toothfish: Are Conservation and Trade Measures
Working?
Greenpeace
Hit at High Seas Fishing Piracy May 23, 2006
General Assembly Urges Action to Protect World’s
Fish Stocks December 8, 2006 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=20912&Cr=fish&Cr1 |
