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Groups urge ban on sea urchin fishing off Penghu

Conservationists on Wednesday urged the Penghu County Government to ban the capture of Hemicentrotus pulcherrimus sea urchins.
The Maritime Citizen Foundation and the Environment and Animal Society of Taiwan said that their volunteer divers only found two specimens near Jianshan (尖山) when they surveyed the waters near the archipelago.
The groups estimated that the number of sea urchins living in the area has fallen from 200 million about 50 years ago to about 50,000 today.
Even though whole sea urchins have largely disappeared from local markets, some fishers might catch them illegally, they said.
The county government’s conservation efforts are understaffed ....

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Siaoliouciou seabed 'barren' amid pollution

Coral reefs off Pingtung County’s Siaoliouciou Island (小琉球) are in worse shape than any other reefs in the nation, while Chinese dredging and fishing off Penghu County remains a matter of national security, the Taiwan Citizen Participation Association said on Thursday.
Experts conveyed their concerns at a forum organized by the association on environmental health in the nation’s outlying islands.
Siaoliouciou, Taiwan’s only island formed from coral detritus, once had the healthiest reefs in the nation, said Fan Tung-yun (樊同雲), a researcher at the National Museum of Marine Biology and Aquarium.
However, the situation has quickly deteriorated due to overfishing, pollution, human activity, ....

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