Fishing
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Illegal fishing fleets generate $10 billion in annual sales
If you look at the taxonomy of crime that plays out offshore, it's both diverse and acute. And yet illegal fishing sits at the top of that hierarchy. It’s a global business estimated at $10 billion in annual sales, and one that is thriving as improved technology has enabled fishing vessels to plunder the oceans with greater efficiency.
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'The next great casualty of climate change' could be global fishing stocks
In a year that has seen the effects of climate change unfold with frightening speed — from drought and famine to heat domes, wildfires and flash flooding — another potential catastrophe has come into view: depleted oxygen levels in oceans and lakes that threaten marine life.
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How the global demand for seafood is leading Chinese factories to pollute an African nation
In Gambia, the nine miles of water closest to the shore have been reserved for local fishermen, but on any given day dozens of foreign trawlers are visible from the beach. Sea Shepherd’s mission was to find and board trespassers, or other vessels engaged in prohibited behaviors, such as shark finning or netting juvenile fish.
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