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 Stories About: Antarctica AND Australia AND fishing AND oceans
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Victory in the South Pacific
Limits set on high seas bottom trawling |
Andrew Sharpless |
09 May 2007 |
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| More than 20 nations recently met in Chile to set up a regulatory body to watch over a huge swath of ocean. The meeting, which was targeted by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, supported by the Pew Charitable Trusts, and included staff from Oceana's South American office, also netted (no pun intended) a landmark agreement that reels in high seas bottom trawling fleets. New regulations set to take effect next September will severely limit the destructive fishing ... |
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| Topics: Antarctica, Australia, fishing, oceans (all these topics) |
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