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Huvudet av en hammarhaj. Området nära La Paz var en gång känt som en av världens bästa platser för att dyka med hammarhajar. Så är det inte längre. Hajfenssoppans popularitet världen över gör jakt på hammarhaj till en lukrativ bransch. تكبير الصورة

Gulf of California - the World's Aquarium

The Gulf of California in Mexico was named the "World’s Aquarium" by Jacques Cousteau because of its rich marine life. The Esperanza sails the Gulf of California to highlight the threats to this marine life.

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A girl from Namakala Village, Fiji. What will her future be like if these waters are over-exploited? تكبير الصورة

Fiji - Somo Somo bay and surrounds

Traditional fishing in the Pacific Islands. With 70 per cent of the world's fisheries fully exploited, overexploited or depleted, we must protect the Pacific against increasing numbers of foreign industrial fishing vessels and pirate fishers.

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A slow growing fish that generally lives up to around 150 years old. They reach sexual maturity at 20 to 30 years. These fish live in shoals and inhabit the deep waters of every ocean. High seas fleets have dramatically reduced orange roughy numbers as new fishing technologies provide access to deeper and more distant waters. Originally, the fish was known as “slime head” but it was renamed the more marketable “orange roughy” to appeal to consumers. Today, orange roughy can be bought in fish markets around the world. Along with other deep sea fish species, orange roughy can even be bought online at Amazon.com. تكبير الصورة

Deep sea life

View some of the weird and wonderful creatures that live deep below the surface of the ocean.

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For the fishing industry, the unreachable is now within reach. Today's trawlers are capable of fishing deep-sea canyons and rough seafloor that was once avoided for fear of damaging nets, through advances in bottom trawl technology. To capture one or two target commercial species deep-sea bottom trawl fishing vessels drag huge nets armed with steel plates and heavy rollers across the seabed, plowing up and pulverizing everything in their path. More powerful engines, bigger nets, more precise mapping, and advanced navigational and fish-finding electronics have enabled fishing vessels to drag fishing gear across the ocean bottom as much as two kilometers in depth. Compared to life in shallow waters deep-sea fish live a very slow life and reproduce much slower. Fishing for deep-sea stocks has been compared to mining for minerals due to the reduced capacity of the stocks to withstand exploitation. تكبير الصورة

Virtual deep sea tour

Learn more about how our deep seas are under threat from bottom trawling.

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Mangrove Roots and new shoots coated with Oil from the sunken Petron-chartered single hull vessel oil tanker in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras Island. تكبير الصورة

Philippines oil spill

Damage caused by the oil slick from the sunken Petron-chartered single hull vessel oil tanker in Nueva Valencia, Guimaras Island, Philippines. The tanker sank on Friday 11th August spilling 2.1 million litres of fuel oil causing a huge slick. Greenpeace called on the Philippine government to hold oil firm Petron and its partners accountable for damages to the environment and people’s livelihoods resulting from the worst oil spill in Philippine history.

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Weblog slideshows

05 January 2006:  Whaling and protest resumes      



30 December 2005: Unsung heroes of the engine room



22 December 2005: Bearing Witness      



21 December 2005: Finding the whaling fleet      



December 2005: Part Sea, part sky       



December 2005: Antarctic sculpture park
























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