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UN meet sees blitz of pledges to protect ailing oceans
AFP, Published on 28/06/2022
» LISBON: A major UN conference on how to restore the faltering health of global oceans kicked off in Lisbon this week with a flurry of promises to expand marine protected areas, ban deep-sea mining, and combat illegal fishing.
Thai trawlers evade illegal-fishing crackdown
AFP, Published on 16/12/2016
» Thai fishing fleets have shifted to remote and ecologically vulnerable waters off the east African coast to evade a regional crackdown on illegal fishing and human trafficking, environmental watchdog Greenpeace said on Thursday.
'Ground-breaking' accord on illegal fishing enters force
AFP, Published on 06/06/2016
» ROME - A "ground-breaking" international treaty to combat fishing pirates took effect Sunday, becoming legally binding in 29 countries that so far have adhered to it, the UN's food agency said.
70,000 foreign workers registered in seafood sector
AFP, Published on 12/02/2016
» Authorities have registered more than 70,000 previously undocumented foreign workers in its fishing industry as the government tries to stave off a potentially ruinous European ban on its seafood exports.