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Keywords
Actions and protests
Bigeye tunas
Day
Direct communications
Dongwon Industries
Fisheries
Fishers
Fishing (Industry)
Fishing ships
Greenpeace activists
KWCI (GPI)
Marine Reserves (campaign title)
Oceans (campaign title)
Outdoors
Overfishing
Two people
Yellowfin tunas
Action against the DongWon Fishing Vessel in the Pacific
An activist on an inflatable hands out a document to a crew member of the DongWon vessel. The activists are protesting against the vessel's overfishing practices of bigeye and yellowfin tuna. A recent agreement signed by Pacific islands countries will see this area closed to fishing on the 16th June 2008.
Unique identifier:
GP01HNI
Type:
Image
Shoot date:
01/06/2008
Locations:
Pacific Ocean
Credit line:
© Greenpeace / Paul Hilton
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
Containers
Shoot:
Defending Our Pacific MV Esperanza Tour
The Greenpeace ship MV Esperanza toured in the Pacific Ocean to defend the pockets of international waters between Pacific Island countries – the Pacific Commons - as marine reserves from greedy fishing fleets intent on fishing out the world's last tuna stocks - the world's favorite fish. These mother ships, known as 'reefers', are a gateway for laundering tuna out of the region.
A report was released that estimates that on top of the known fish catch, at least another 34% is stolen by pirates in the Western and Central Pacific.
Scientists have been warning for years that bigeye and yellowfin tuna are suffering from overfishing.
60% of tuna eaten globally each year comes from the Pacific heading mostly to markets in Japan, the European Union and United States.
Greenpeace advocates the creation of a network of marine reserves, protecting 40 per cent of the world's oceans, as the long term solution to overfishing and the recovery of our overexploited oceans.
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