High Seas Fisheries

 
     
  Overview  
     
  Introduction  
  Concepts  
 

Current Situation

 
 

News and research

 
 

Multimedia

 
 

Webcast

 
   
 

Deep Sea Life: On the Edge of the Abyss – Oceana (by:  Santi Roberts, Ricardo Aguilar, Jon Warrenchuk, Charlotte Hudson, Michael Hirshfield,2005).
[large file 3.5mb]

 
Deep Sea Life
     

The w2o Observer
High seas: The last frontier for oceans management
Charlotte de Fontaubert, Ph D

 
theW2o
     

Interview with Dr Sylvia Earle
Why we shouldn’t eat the creatures of the deep.

 
Earle Movie
     

Fingertip facts about deep waters and high seas.

 
Fingertip Facts
     

High seas resources - UN Atlas of the Oceans.

 
     

Greenpeace video about the impacts of bottom trawling in the high seas.

 
     

Save the high seas

 
Deep Sea Conservation
   

UN addresses law for high seas fishing  May 2006.

 
UN
   

UN Review conference on conservation and management of fish stocks  May 2006.

 
   

High Seas Bottom Trawl Fisheries and Their Impact on the Biodiversity of Vulnerable Deep-Sea Ecosystems.
[large file 2.6mb]

 
     
Map of high seas areas closed to bottom trawling