New BBC documentary spotlights ICIJ probe into fish devastation
20 April 2012
As aggressive, unregulated fishing continues in the South Pacific, BBC World News has broadcast a documentary that features the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists’ recent probe into the plundering of jack mackerel, once one of the world’s most abundant fish.
Summary Report on BfN-IUCN Seminar on Areas beyond National Jurisdiction
15 April 2012
In December 2011, the German Federal Agency for Nature Conservation and the IUCN Environmental Law Centre jointly organized an international seminar on the "Conservation and Sustainable Use of Marine Biodiversity beyond National Jurisdiction". The workshop report is now available online.
Protecting Deep Seas on the High Seas
9 April 2012
How much progress the world is making in controlling “illegal” deep-sea fishing on the high seas depends on your perspective, Matthew Gianni of the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition told scientists at last week’s Fifth International Symposium on Deep-Sea Corals.
Fishery managers could call for a review of massive underwater canyons
3 April 2012
Fishery managers in the North Pacific are expected Tuesday to endorse a reassessment of how to treat two large underwater canyons in Alaska’s Bering Sea that lie near one of the nation’s most profitable fisheries. Environmentalists and some researchers have argued that part of the canyons should be placed off limits to fishing because little is known about them.
September 2011
Unfinished business: a review of the implementation of the provisions of United Nations General Assembly resolutions 61/105 and 64/72, related to the management of bottom fisheries in
areas beyond national jurisdiction
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