"It's Been Forty Years that We've Been Alerting": the Distress of the Guyanans in the Face of Illegal Fishing

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At the Nice Conference on the Oceans, France made the fight against illegal fishing a strong focus of discussions. On the spot, a delegation from Guyana regretted the absence of new measures in the French department, where the number of illegal foreign vessels had been doubled in less than 15 years.

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At the Ocean Summit in Nice, Guyanese people are denouncing the scale of illegal fishing that is devastating their coasts, decimating turtles, and "robbing" local fishermen of their resources. Cayenne (French Guiana), correspondence Will they be heard more in Nice than in Cayenne? Guyanese fishermen are counting on the third United Nations Ocean Conference (UNOC), which is being held from June 9 to 13 in the Mediterranean city, to raise awarenes…

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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (also known as IUU fishing) has increased in recent years. At the UN Summit on the Ocean (Unoc-3) in Nice, France wants to present itself as the world leader in the fight against this phenomenon. "I am not afraid to say it, illegal fishing kills."...This article 5 figures to understand the stakes of illegal fishing appeared first on Natura Sciences.