Blog: Oceans

Sea power in the corridors of power

Posted by darren - 12 May 2006 at 3:33pm - Comments

Greenpeace brought oceans campaigners and supermarket bosses onto MPs' home turf

At a parliamentary reception organised by Greenpeace, supermarket bosses and environmental campaigners came together with politicians to discuss the crisis facing our oceans, and although there were differing views about what was required, everyone agreed on one thing: action needs to be taken, and taken quickly.

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Stranger than fiction - the giant squid

Posted by darren - 8 May 2006 at 6:51pm - Comments

The giant squid - never seen alive by human eyes

Looming out of the inky blackness of the deep sea waters - an enormous tentacled creature is locked in a life or death struggle with a mighty sperm whale. This classic Jules Verne-like image of a legendary sea-monster is still our most common image of one of the least known denizens of the deep - the giant squid. Oceans Campaigner Alejandro writes from the Esperanza.

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Squids in?

Posted by darren - 28 April 2006 at 2:35pm - Comments

A sperm whale prepares to dive

The Esperanza embarks on the third leg of our global voyage, this time tracking sperm whales and giant squid.

With two legs down and plenty more to go, you might think the sunny climes of the Azores would be the perfect place for the Esperanza to weigh anchor and take a well-earned rest. After all, tracking down whaling ships and pirate trawlers is not an easy business.

Article tagged as: defending our oceans, esperanza, seamounts, sperm whales, squid

Massacre on the beaches

Posted by darren - 19 April 2006 at 11:31am - Comments

Protesters in India show the Chief Minister how the Olive Ridley turtle population is suffering

In India, Olive Ridley turtles are being killed in their thousands by illegal trawling. Stephen Tindale, Executive Director of Greenpeace UK, witnessed the effects first-hand and reports on how laws designed to protect the turtles are being used to incarcerate activists.

Article tagged as: india, oceans, olive ridley turtles, turtles

Pirate fishing scandal exposed

Posted by darren - 10 April 2006 at 5:18pm - Comments

Binar 4: caught illegally transhipping a cargo of Guinian fish

Las Palmas, Spain - Our volunteers have boarded an illegal cargo vessel full of fish stolen from Guinean waters. Greenpeace and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) tailed the "Binar 4" for six days, as it sailed from West Africa to dump its pirate catch on the European market.

Article tagged as: oceans, pirate fishing

Japanese government comes under diplomatic pressure to end whaling

Posted by darren - 18 January 2006 at 11:34am - Comments

Japanese whaling fleet prepares to leave Aruka port, Shimonoseki, Southern Japan

London 17 January 2006: 17 governments today made a formal diplomatic protest against Japanese whaling. The protest, known as a 'demarche', was presented by Brazil and supported by 16 other countries, including the UK.

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Recipe for disaster

Publication date: 
27 October, 2005

Supermarkets' Insatiable Appetite for Seafood

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Cetacean bycatch and pelagic trawling

Publication date: 
20 July, 2005

The problem of bycatch

Summary

The biggest threat to marine ecosystems globally is destructive and unsustainable fishing practices. An estimated 23% of the global fisheries catch is thrown back into the sea, dead and wasted. As well as over-fishing target fish stocks, fisheries are destroying the biodiversity of the oceans.

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Iceland ends annual whaling hunt

Posted by darren - 6 July 2005 at 11:08am - Comments

Iceland continue with their 'scientific' whaling programme

Iceland has now killed the last minke whale in its 2005 'scientific' whaling programme. Their self-imposed quota was 39 minke whales and as they have met their target it brings the total catch for the last three years to 100 whales.

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Japan vows to fight for a return to commercial whaling

Posted by darren - 29 June 2005 at 11:58am - Comments

International Whaling Commission meets in Korea 2005

As the International Whaling Commission (IWC) meeting ends in Korea, anti-whaling nations emerge victorious. The commission firmly rejected the Japanese government proposal that would have seen a return to commercial whaling.

Article tagged as: IWC, japan, whaling
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