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22 October 2006

The real problems in the Pacific

by Richella, onboard the Esperanza

A Korean Longliner at dawn
©Greenpeace/Alex Hofford
During two months of joint surveillance with enforcement officials from two countries we've patrolled over 30,000 square miles of ocean. In that time we’ve inspected 8 suspicious fishing vessels, found a warehouse full of de-finned shark carcases and spent a night fishing on a Longliner .

The situation in the Pacific is different to what we'd been expecting. The pirate fishing here is much more subtle than in West Africa. There are no rusting unlicensed vessels with demoralised crews fishing surreptitiously. Instead, each of the vessels we’ve inspected has been in good condition, the crew well fed and in good spirits. Nonetheless they are pirates, operating in a grey area between the legal loopholes and lax governance.

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Comments

you should look at the eastern pacific and see what the Chinese are doing
ummmmmmm...

Posted by: Michael Johnson at October 25, 2006 7:02 AM

Keep up the good work!
[There are only a few days left before a U.S. Senate election will reverse the environmentally negative policies of the Bush administration.]
If you want to stop pirate fishing, you need to give the poorest of the poor, some survival alternatives. Creating inland ponds and raising edible captive fish is one alternative which can be introduced, but a great amount of research must go into the work and the new fish farms must be created far inland and away from the open Ocean in order to avoid both feces pollution and species contamination.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.

Posted by: Joseph Raglione at October 26, 2006 5:15 AM

Keep up the good work!
[There are only a few days left before a U.S. Senate election will reverse the environmentally negative policies of the Bush administration.]
If you want to stop pirate fishing, you need to give the poorest of the poor, some survival alternatives. Creating inland ponds and raising edible captive fish is one alternative which can be introduced, but a great amount of research must go into the work and the new fish farms must be created far inland and away from the open Ocean in order to avoid both feces pollution and species contamination.
Signed: Joseph Raglione
Executive director: The World Humanitarian Peace and Ecology Movement.

Posted by: Joseph Raglione at October 26, 2006 5:43 AM

a good job I give my best congratulations for the Esperanza

Posted by: Emilio Pedro De Felipe at November 5, 2006 11:57 AM

Pacific Ocean seems to be in the same time our victim (if we consider naval war that had a thremendous impact on the ocean) but also, together with the other oceans, the main cause of the climate change.

Naval warfare during the two World Wars determined two major climate changes: a sustained warming which started at the end of World War I and lasted 20 years, and the next climatic shift which started during the winter 1939/40 and caused a four-decades global cooling. The extensive fighting at sea was a real threat for the normal course of the climate

I have read dr. Bernaert's thessis on ""Naval War changes Climate"", in which the ocean's main role in the climate change is explained. You can see it on the website www.1ocean-1climate.com. I would be really interested in your opinion.

Posted by: alexanderp at January 3, 2007 6:34 PM

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