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200 miles South West Guinea Bissau. Chinese fishing boats Lian Run 24 and Lian Run 29 illegally transshipping frozen fish boxes onto Binar 4 Panama reefer. Greenpeace and the Environmental Justice Foundation are working in partnership to expose the scandal of pirate fishing, as part of the year - long Greenpeace Defending Our Oceans expedition to highlight a range of threats to the oceans. Enlarge Image

Witnessing the Plunder 2006

08 March 2007

Pirate fishing fleets operate in contravention of conservation and management rules, labour and tax laws. Crew employed on board of these pirate vessels often live in near-slavery conditions. This report focuses on exposing the high levels of illegal fishing in waters of Guinea and explaining how fish finds its way to the port of Las Palmas.

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Financial Grants and Votes for Whaling

12 February 2007

From Feb 13th to 15th in Tokyo, the Japanese government is hosting a so-called "Normalization" Meeting, inviting members of the International Whaling Commission (IWC). This document explores the links between the Japanese government’s "Grant Aid for Fisheries (Fisheries Aid)" and the recruitment of countries to the IWC who subsequently vote with Japan.

The document also lists the 33 countries that voted for the St Kitts Declaration in the IWC 2006. We have added the columns titled: "whaling countries"; "the total amount of the Fisheries Aid provided by Japanese government from the 1994 till today", and "the opinion poll data on the resumption of commercial whaling" where the data is available.

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The Netherlands: a pirate fishers' paradise

08 February 2007

Executive Summary: Why the international cod mafia is doing business in Dutch ports

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Briefing: Joint Tuna RFMO Meeting, Kobe 2007

23 January 2007

Greenpeace Briefing: Joint Tuna RFMO Meeting: Kobe, Japan - January 22-26th 2007 Opening the can: How Tuna Fishery Management Organisations Regularly Fail to Manage our Oceans As member states of the Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (RFMOs) tasked with regulating the world’s tuna stocks gather in Kobe, Japan this week, it is high time for them to recognise that if they continue to operate as they have done to date, they will destroy the very resource that they have been set to manage and protect. Tuna RFMO member states must acknowledge that a radical change to fisheries management is urgently required if they are to prevent the collapse of tuna stocks across the globe.

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Unwanted bycatch, including a starfish, far outweighs the target catch of orange roughy in a deep sea trawl from international waters in the Tasman Sea. Greenpeace along with more than a thousand scientists are supporting the call for a moratorium on high seas bottom trawling, because of the vast amount of marine life that is destroyed by this fishing method. Enlarge Image

Trading Away Our Oceans

18 January 2007

Instead of pursuing further liberalization, states should ensure existing international law is implemented fully and establish new rules to ensure sustainable and equitable management of the high seas. Furthermore, developing countries must be provided with the capacity and know-how to establish and enforce effective fisheries management regimes in their own waters.

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