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Actions and protests
Confrontation
Day
Direct communications
Fishers
Fishing (Industry)
Fishing ships
Greenpeace activists
Greenpeace campaigners
Hard hats
Hostility
KWCI (GPI)
Longline fishing
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Oceans (campaign title)
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Overfishing
Small group of people
Crew of Taiwanese Longliner Talks to Activists in the Pacific
A crew member of the Taiwanese longliner Ho Tsai Fa 18 talks to campaigner Sari Tolvanen while she approaches the vessel to inspect its catch. The activists concluded that the fishing vessel is contributing to the overfishing of bigeye and yellowfin tuna and sharks between Papua New Guinea and the Federated States of Micronesia. Greenpeace is calling for these pockets of international waters between Pacific island countries to become marine reserves.
Unique identifier:
GP01HM5
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
10/05/2008
Locations:
Pacific Ocean
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Paul Hilton
Size:
3000px × 2040px 1MB
Ranking:
★★★★★★ (B)
Containers
Shoot:
Defending Our Pacific MV Esperanza Tour
The Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza toured in the Pacific Ocean to defend the pockets of international waters between Pacific Island countries – the Pacific Commons - as marine reserves from greedy fishing fleets intent on fishing out the world's last tuna stocks - the world's favorite fish. These mother ships, known as 'reefers', are a gateway for laundering tuna out of the region.
A report was released that estimates that on top of the known fish catch, at least another 34% is stolen by pirates in the Western and Central Pacific.
Scientists have been warning for years that bigeye and yellowfin tuna are suffering from overfishing.
60% of tuna eaten globally each year comes from the Pacific heading mostly to markets in Japan, the European Union and United States.
Greenpeace advocates the creation of a network of marine reserves, protecting 40 per cent of the world's oceans, as the long term solution to overfishing and the recovery of our overexploited oceans.
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Defending Our Pacific Expedition 2008 (Photo & Video)
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