Sharks most often caught by Indonesia, India ... and Spain?
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Sharks -- they’re not for dinner. Not at the Herbal Café in Beijing, at
least, where customers can belly up to a bowl of imitation shark-fin
soup. Shunning the real thing
has become a popular environmental statement in China, kind of like
avoiding fur or driving a Prius, Jonathan Kaiman reports for The Times.
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Where have all the fish gone?
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TALCAHUANO, Chile - Eric Pineda, a dock agent in this old port south of Santiago, peered deep into the Achernar's hold at a measly 10 tonnes of jack mackerel - the catch after four days in waters once so rich they filled the 17-metre fishing boat in a few hours. Pineda, like everyone here, grew up with the bony, bronze-hued fish they call jurel, which roams in schools in the southern Pacific.
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Pew Urges Reforms to EU Deep-Sea Fishing Regulations
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The Pew Environment Group today encouraged the European Commission to implement significant reforms to EU deep-sea fishing regulations. The Commission is preparing to release its deep-sea access regime proposal before the end of the first quarter of 2012.
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Rising wealth of Asians straining world fish stock
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MANILA, Philippines—Rising wealth in Asia and fishing
subsidies are among factors driving overexploitation of the world's fish
resources, while fish habitat is being destroyed by pollution and
climate change, U.N. marine experts said Tuesday.
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Gunmen fire on fishermen in Philippines, kill 15
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MANILA, Philippines—Gunmen in the restive southern
Philippines opened fire on three boats and killed 15 fishermen in what
officials said Tuesday was likely an attack by a rival group protecting
its lucrative fishing grounds.
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