"How can the European Union, acting on behalf of 500 million people, find itself unable or unwilling to take strong action against an overfishing nation, in this case the Faroe Islands, with 50,000 people, or Iceland, with 300,000?" Mr. Lochhead said.
The problem is, as has been pointed out in section 10.2, that these gears can remain profitable, even in an overfishing situation.
The great irony of it is that in a book that talks a lot about overfishing there's a shot of the author with an illegal oversize fish.
In 1996, lawmakers passed the Sustainable Fisheries Act, which called for an immediate stop to overfishing, a reduction of bycatch--fish that are caught inadvertently--and protection of essential fish habitats.
As a media officer with Greenpeace International, I am to sail across the Indian Ocean on a campaign calling for an end to overfishing.
The largest of the tuna species, Atlantic bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus), inhabits the North Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea and is considered to be an endangered species, largely a consequence of overfishing.
Hopefully, the government will decree a moratorium on the allocation of new fishing authorisations," said Raoul Monsembula, oceans campaigner for Greenpeace Africa, that has been pressing for an end to overfishing in west African waters.
The essential purpose of the act was to allow wise management of that 200-mile fisheries zone, including putting an end to overfishing by foreign fleets in this country's waters.
These so-called 'seiners' fish in an unsustainable manner, overfishing tuna stocks while also catching and then throwing overboard many other fish.
The United Nations adopted on Friday a sweeping set of global goals that put the environment front and center within a broader development agenda, calling for member nations to fix climate change, cut food waste, and put an end to overfishing.
The collapse of the Pacific sardine fishery in the 1940s (see chart 5), which killed Cannery Row and provided a novel for John Steinbeck, was once regarded as a result of overfishing.
