Mongabay: On Wednesday, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) issued its biennial report identifying six countries whose fisheries have been engaged in illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing during the past two years. The report comes at a time when one-fifth of reported fish catches worldwide are caught illegally and commercial fishing has led to a global fish stock overexploitation of an estimated 80 percent.
The countries listed in the report - Colombia, Ecuador, Italy,......
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Italy and Panama continue illegal fishing, says new report
Posted by Mongabay: Morgan Erickson-Davis on January 15th, 2011
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