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Championed by conservationists and coastal nations, the plan restricts the use of fish aggregating devices tools that enable massive catches. To much fanfare, it was accepted. Now, the agreement’s future seems bleak.
In 2021, faced with an economy battered by the COVID-19 pandemic, the island nation of Maldives considered lifting a ban on shark fishing that had been in place since 2010. A global outcry followed, and the government quickly abandoned the idea. The 2010 ban effectively turned Maldivian waters, a marine area the size of Portugal, […]