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 […]
Category: Looting the Seas III
As other fisheries are pushed to their limits, giant trawlers have moved southward toward the edge of Antarctica to catch what is left. For this finale of Looting the Seas, reporters from the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists spent seven months on four continents to document how Asian, European and Latin American fleets have devastated fish stocks in the southern Pacific, once among the world’s richest waters. The stories were reported in collaboration with the investigative journalism centers IDL-Reporteros in Peru and CIPER in Chile. A documentary co-produced with London-based tve is planned to air on BBC World News TV in the spring.
