The tug of war to ban Deep Sea Mining, the largest mining activity ever
Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission failed to reach any agreement on reining in catches of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), which has been declared overfished for the past nine years. A growing number of countries have lined up to stop the “Deep Sea...
Small farmers VS aquaculture at the FAO summit
Opposite views among politicians, producers and fishermen at the last FAO summit, which celebrated the overtaking of fish farming over fishing. Can aquaculture be a sustainable answer to feed the growing world population? The latest summit of the United Nations Food...
NGOs and scientists ask FAO to stop promoting salmon and other carnivorous fish farming
On World Ocean Day over 160 groups and experts wrote to FAO, criticizing the support to “destructive” aquaculture industries. On World Oceans Day, a group of more than 160 non-governmental organizations, communities and individual researchers submitted an...
No mercy for overfished yellowfin tuna at Indian Ocean fisheries meeting
Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission failed to reach any agreement on reining in catches of yellowfin tuna (Thunnus albacares), which has been declared overfished for the past nine years. Although yellowfin tuna comprises almost one-third of the global tuna...
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