U.N. urges foreign fishing fleets to halt "ocean grabbing"
Source: Reuters
U.N. urges foreign fishing fleets to halt "ocean grabbing"
Tue, 30 Oct 2012 11:08 GMT
Source: reuters // Reuters
* Report says small-scale fishing needs promoting
* Says rules governing access to waters need tightening
By Alister Doyle
OSLO, Oct 30 (Reuters) - "Ocean grabbing" or aggressive industrial fishing by foreign fleets is a threat to food security in developing nations where governments should do more to promote local, small-scale fisheries, a study by a U.N. expert said on Tuesday.
The report said emerging nations should tighten rules for access to their waters by an industrial fleet that is rapidly growing and includes vessels from China, Russia, the European Union, the United States and Japan.
"Ocean-grabbing is taking place," Olivier de Schutter, the U.N. special rapporteur on the right to food and the report's author, told Reuters. "It's like land-grabbing, just less discussed and less visible."
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De Schutter said ocean grabbing involved "shady access agreements that harm small-scale fishers, unreported catch, incursions into protected waters, and the diversion of resources away from local populations."
Read more: http://www.trust.org/alertnet/news/un-urges-foreign-fishing-fleets-to-halt-ocean-grabbing
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is one of their recurring nightmares. To them national sovereignty trumps all else.
Witness the platform of the Texas GOP. It includes:
We support the withdrawal of the United States from the United Nations;
Adopted by the UN in 1982, we still oppose the Law of the Sea Treaty;
We unequivocally oppose the United States Senate’s ratification of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child.
United Nations Agenda 21 -The Republican Party of Texas should expose all United Nations Agenda 21 treaty policies and its supporting organizations, agreements and contracts. We oppose implementation of the UN Agenda 21 Program which was adopted at the Earth Summit Conference in 1992 purporting to promote a comprehensive program of sustainable development projects, nationally, regionally and locally.
Cap and Trade – We oppose Cap and Trade (“Cap and Tax”).
International Organizations – We support U.S. withdrawal from the International Monetary Fund, the World Trade Organization and the World Bank.
http://s3.amazonaws.com/texasgop_pre/assets/original/2012Platform_Final.pdf
Much of their anger is directed at the UN and its various bodies and treaties, but they view almost any international organization with "teeth" ("enforce it"
as a threat to national sovereignty.
yes, O said he'd support it and from that moment on, the GOOP (extra "O" for "oil" was against it.
A movie that was made years ago is coming true today. I thought when I first saw the movie that we could not be so stupid to have a world with hot weather and a dead ocean. I guess this old dude was WRONG.
The ruler of this world SATAN will do something that makes this world more SAD and MAD for those who have to live here.
