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IMPACT: Key vote clears way to stop fish plundering in the South Pacific

An almost unanimous vote by Chilean legislators has cleared the way – after a six-year effort – for legally binding international measures to protect jack mackerel and other threatened fish across the southern Pacific, once among the world’s richest waters. Chile’s Senate voted 26 to 0, with two abstentions, on June 14 to ratify the […]