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Actions and protests
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Bycatch
Fish
Fishers
Fishing nets
Fishing ships
Greenpeace activists
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KWCI (GPI)
Longline fishing
Marine Reserves (campaign title)
Oceans (campaign title)
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Inspecting Taiwanese Longliner Nian Sheug
Activists board the Taiwanese longliner Nian Sheug and discover 12 sacks of shark fins and tails on board. One million sharks are killed in the Central and Western Pacific annually and 50 million globally each year. Greenpeace is 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. 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.
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.
Unique identifier:
GP03IJF
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
21/04/2008
Locations:
International Waters
,
Pacific Ocean
,
Solomon Islands
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
2m26s
Audio format:
Natural
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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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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