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End of The Line... PDF Print E-mail
Written by Jackie During   
Saturday, 13 June 2009
Birldife reports the lauch of a new documentary called End of the Line. This film highlights the immenent collapse of many of the worlds fisheries due to over-fishing. But the good news is that 17 Pacific island nations recently set a global precedent by ensuring that over 50 million square kms of ocean will be closed to tuna purse-seine fishing.
“This resolution sets a global precedent, and will help to reduce the impacts of tuna fishing on bycatch species such as seabirds”, said Dr Ross Wanless, Africa Coordinator for the GSP and the head of BirdLife South Africa’s Seabird Division. “BirdLife International will be encouraging other RFMOs to follow suit”.

"Tuna fishing is a really important industry across the Pacific, and yet it has potential to be very damaging to populations of Globally Threatened seabirds as a result of bycatch”, added Dr Susan Waugh, BirdLife Global Seabird Programme scientist, based in Wellington, New Zealand. “Much of the fishing effort occurs in areas also favoured by seabirds, with species such as Critically Endangered Beck's Petrel Pseudobulweria becki, Fiji Petrel Pseudobulweria macgillivrayi, Waved Albatross Phoebastria irrorata and Chatham Albatross Thalassarche eremita occurring in the midst of major fishing areas”.

“The Pacific Island nations have a huge contribution to make to maintaining biodiversity, and it is incredibly heartening to see them coming together as guardians of their special species," concluded Dr Waugh.
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