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High greenhouse gas emissions will drastically alter distribution of key tuna species
Climate change-driven redistribution of key commercial tuna species will deliver an economic blow to the small island states of the Western and Central Pacific and threaten the sustainability of the world’s largest tuna fishery, a major international study has found.
The study combines climate science, ecological modelling and economic data to provide a comprehensive analysis of the impact of climate change on Pacific tuna stocks and on the small island states that depend on them. It is published today (29/30 July 2021) in Nature Sustainability.
A consortium of institutions and organisations from across the Pacific, North America and Europe contributed to the research, including the University of Wollongong, Conservation International, the Pacific Community (SPC), the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA), and the Parties to the Nauru Agreement Office (PNAO).
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A new report shows that the amount of North Korean ships in the nation’s “dark fleet” for squid fishing have dropped significantly in 2020, cutting off the hermit kingdom’s popular staple in a time when the national food supply was already facing widespread shortages.
According to the Global Fishing Watch, the presence of North Korean vessels dark fishing for squid in Russian territorial waters decreased by over 90%, from 146,800 to 6,600 over the course of 2020, with fishing activity in North Korea’s own waters also showing heavy decline.
North Korea’s “dark fleets” are given the name as referring to illegal fishing vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems, often in violation of international maritime law, as stated by the Journal Science Advances. These dark fishing ships operate in waters between the Korean peninsula, Russia, and Japan, among the world’s most disputed and poorly surveyed territorial waters. Hundreds of