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Keywords
Confrontation
Endangered species
Fishing (Industry)
Forklift trucks
KWCI (GPI)
Oceans (campaign title)
Refrigerators
Shark fins
Sharks
Sharks Fins Warehouse in Pohnpei
Greenpeace visits a warehouse with sharks' fins. Shots include a pile of dead and finless sharks being loaded into the back of a refrigerated container. After severing the lucrative fins from the sharks' bodies, Luen Thai company send the fins to Asia for final consumption as Shark's Fin Soup. The bodies are also sent back to China to be manufactured into catfood and/or cheap fish balls, a common street food in China. Greenpeace document fishing in the area for the Pacific Leg of the 'Defending Our Oceans' global expedition. They are calling for an immediate end to pirate fishing, a 50% reduction in the amount of Pacific tuna caught, and a global network of Marine Reserves.
Unique identifier:
GP03IQZ
Type:
Video
Shoot date:
25/09/2006
Locations:
Pohnpei
Credit line:
© Greenpeace
Duration:
1m26s
Audio format:
Natural
Ranking:
★★★★ (E)
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Defending Our Oceans Tour in the Pacific
The Greenpeace vessel 'MY Esperanza' sets sail from the port of Cebu, Republic of the Philippines on for the Pacific Leg of the Greenpeace 'Defending Our Oceans' global expedition. Yellow Fin and Big Eye tuna stocks in the Central and Western Pacific are destined to be critically over-fished.
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