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Annual South Pacific fisheries meeting nets bottom trawling controversy

When the body that manages fisheries across the vast international waters of the South Pacific Ocean met earlier this month, it made key decisions on bottom trawling, labor rights, observation of squid-fishing vessels, and transshipment at sea, a practice that can obscure the origin of illegally caught seafood. The annual conference of the South Pacific […]

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Chile wants to protect part of high seas ahead of global treaty

President Sebastián Piñera has proposed creating a marine protected area in the Eastern Pacific, an area of vital importance for biodiversity

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High seas: Chile proposes new marine park ahead of global treaty

Share The Anakena reef in the Marine Protected Area of Rapa Nui seventy to eighty meters below the sea surface. (Image © Matthias Gorny/ Oceana & ESMOI) With more than 41% of its waters already covered by marine protected areas (MPAs), Chile has proposed creating a high seas MPA on the Salas and Gomez and the Nazca ridges – two underwater mountain chains that stretch 2,900 kilometres across the south-eastern Pacific and share some of the ocean’s greatest biodiversity. The idea was introduced by President Sebastián Piñera at the virtual climate summit held by US President Joe Biden in April. Piñera said “it’s not enough” to protect only national waters (known as Exclusive Economic Zones), especially considering the global call to protect 30% of the ocean by 2030.

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