Conservation Organizations: NAFO Falls Short on Deep-Sea Protections
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HALIFAX, Nova Scotia, Sept. 23, 2011 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The 33rd annual meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) ended today with countries failing to agree on significant, additional measures to safeguard vulnerable deep-sea marine ecosystems. While NAFO has made progress since 2006 in closing certain seamounts and areas of corals and sponges to fishing—including deciding at this year's meeting to extend those closures until 2014—it has not yet fully implemented a comprehensive assessment of fragile high-seas ecosystems. This was a requirement of the United Nations (U.N.) sustainable fisheries resolutions adopted in 2006 and 2009.
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Oceana report: True amount of EU fishing sector subsidies to be €3.3 billion
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Oceana published a report on the true amount of subsidies provided to the fishing sector by the European Union (EU) and its Member States.
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Fishery report cites widening trade deficit
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In the fourth decade of the nation's epic and largely successful effort
to reverse centuries of overfishing, 2010 commercial fishing landings
and revenues in U.S. ports increased, but the nation continues to import
the vast majority of its seafood.
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Portugal asked to cut fishing fleet subsidies
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Against the backdrop of the EU review of its fishing policy, non-governmental organization Oceana has called for an end to fishing subsidies.
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Spanish fishing sector, the most heavily subsidized in EU
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The fisheries sector in Spain received the most fishing subsidies in the
European Union (EU) as it received EUR 733.9 million in 2009, Oceana reports.
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