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Macken Sense: the environment movement
There is a meme building around the idea that post 2007, the environment movement in Australia has started to come apart like a wet cigar – sure there’s a price on carbon pollution but so what, Tony Abbott will see that off as soon as he gets his feet under the PM’s desk. The Kevin…
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Australians win back their oceans
Press release – 10 September, 2012Tuesday, September 11, Sydney: Greenpeace congratulated the Gillard government today for showing the courage to prevent the Abel Tasman super trawler fishing in our waters. Greenpeace hailed it as a victory for the Australian community which has united to reject this monster ship. The decision also sends a message to…
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Transforming Pacific Tuna for Tomorrow
The Director of the Parties to the Nauru Agreement (PNA), Dr Transform Aqorau encouraged its membership to change their mindset about being wealthy custodians of a billion dollar resource and to pursue alternative models of development rather than rely on access arrangements with donors. Blogpost by Duncan Williams The PNA group is responsible for the…
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Guest blogger Callum Roberts: Future oceans
Imagine a world, not very far in the future, where families shun the idea of a seaside holiday because the sea is too unpleasant to visit, perhaps even dangerous. The beach is heaped with rotting green seaweed and bodies of jellyfish litter the strand. Getting in the water you risk illness; even the air might…
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One boat coming to Australia that we should fear
Australia is about to have one of the world’s biggest fishing vessels – from a fleet that has a track record of obliterating fish stocks around the world – enter its shores. Blogpost by Karli Thomas, 01/02/2012 Rather than being afraid of the damage it will cause, the Australian Fisheries Management Authority has doubled the…
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(H)appy fish
Press release – 29 March, 2012Newly released Greenpeace iPhone app puts Australian canned tuna brands under the spotlight just in time for EasterSYDNEY, 30 March 2012 : Today Greenpeace announced the release of its Canned Tuna Guide app for iPhone. The Canned Tuna Guide app sits within the popular, free of charge Sustainable Seafood Guide…
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Working to keep pirates and overfishing out of my backyard
Tuna is the lifeline for many Pacific island communities – a source of income, jobs and food. That’s why, as a Pacific islander and someone who has been working on oceans conservation for over a decade, I am still very angry at the inaction of the people who are meant to be “managing” our oceans.…
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Destructive tuna fishing kills whales and whale sharks
Press release – 27 March, 2012Guam/Sydney, 28 March 2012: Australian supermarkets continue to stock tuna caught using fishing methods which kill whales, Greenpeace revealed as regional leaders meet to decide the future of the world’s largest tuna fishery in the Pacific.Greenpeace is demanding governments vote to ban the setting of tuna purse-seine fishing nets on…
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It’s no holiday for tuna scientists in the Pacific
Every year, Pacific Ocean fisheries experts gather to review all of the current scientific data and make recommendations to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) on what us scientists call “conservation and management measures” – measures that should protect not only the target fish species of tunas, marlins, and swordfish, but also ocean…
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Our leaders can and should save the Pacific tuna next week
Ocean stewardship in the Pacific has come a long way. Ask a Pacific islander fifty years ago about managing fish and you would have been greeted with a look of bemusement. After all, fish back in the day were thought of as unlimited. Ask a pacific islander today about managing fish and the response will…