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In the environmental field, new institutions are emerging that focus their work on harmonizing criteria and indicators, especially for use in programs that certify sustainable use of resources as in the case of forests and fisheries.
Third, G20 countries should support African agriculture and fisheries.
Two-thirds of Africans rely on agriculture or fisheries for their livelihoods.
By joining FSM in these efforts, the PNA could raise the bar for transparency and set a new standard for fisheries management.
Pacific fisheries ministers are hoping to raise revenue even more by working with The Nature Conservancy to co-implement a system similar to one used in western Alaska, where the Community Development Quota Program (CDQ) has helped poor communities generate income by investing in fisheries-related businesses.
By promoting better fishing practices, we can increase regional revenue flows to rebuild and restore fisheries, boost food and job security, and strengthen resilience to climate change.
Where fisheries agreements are not succeeding, conservation agreements must be tried and applied.
But so, too, could be the organizations that have presided over a breathtaking collapse of so many fisheries and left a once-bountiful marine environment – and the lives and livelihoods of many fishermen – damaged and degraded in their wake.
This should grab the attention of both regional fisheries management organizations, which oversee commercial fishing in the high seas, and those monitoring compliance with the United Nations Convention on the Conservation of Migratory Species of Wild Animals (CMS), which covers endangered migratory species.
Given that sharks are a commercially valuable secondary catch of fisheries (usually those targeting tuna), regional fisheries management organizations tend not to elaborate specific regulations for them.
It is thus easier for sharks to slip through the gaps in international law than to elude fishermen’s nets – especially the massive specialized nets that fisheries employ nowadays.
Many such stocks, such as Newfoundland cod, which supported huge fisheries for centuries, have been reduced to a tiny proportion of their former levels.
We are reducing fisheries to smaller and less attractive fish, and the situation could get much worse as those disappear.
If it’s birds and beaches, disperse; if it’s fisheries, don’t.
Because of the dispersion, shrimp, squid, and some fish populations suffered, with fisheries hit even harder.
After Ixtoc, the blow to the Mexican fisheries became a blessing in disguise.
It is far too early to assess the ecological damage and economic losses to fisheries and tourism from the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Fixing Our Broken OceansNAIROBI – Many people know that oceans cover more than 70% of the world’s surface, and that marine fisheries provide food for billions of people.
The United Nations Environment Program’s (UNEP) Global Environment Outlook concluded that three-quarters of marine fisheries are exploited up to, or beyond, their maximum capacity.
Much of the current plight of the world’s marine fisheries is a result of subsidized, industrial-scale overfishing.
Fisheries depletion, in both exclusive economic zones and on the high seas, reveals how the international community is failing to meet one of the most important commitments that came out of the 1992 meeting.
The science relating to fisheries has been clear for decades.
UNEP calculates that investing $110 billion over the coming years in strengthened fisheries management – including the establishment of MPAs, the decommissioning and reduction of fleet capacity, and retraining of workers – will allow the planet’s fisheries to recover.
Employment in fisheries in many countries is projected to grow again over the coming decades as depleted stocks recover.
Beyond endangering lives, more frequent and stronger storms could cost many billions of dollars, owing to infrastructure damage and lost revenues from farming, fisheries, and tourism.
Fisheries remove more than 25% of the primary production in upwelling ocean regions and 35% in the temperate continental shelf.
From carbon dioxide and Internet governance to depleted ocean fisheries and corporate tax avoidance, many of the world’s problems today are innately transnational.
Highlighting the vulnerability of nuclear power to environmental change or extreme-weather patterns, in 2006 plant operators in Western Europe also secured exemptions from regulations that would have prevented them from discharging overheated water into natural ecosystems, affecting fisheries.
The catastrophic collapse of fish stocks around the world--on coral reefs and elsewhere--has provided hard lessons about managing fisheries.
Many intensively regulated fisheries have collapsed along with the unregulated ones.
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