Today is World Oceans Day - june 8

[robert99]

World Oceans Day
"The Ocean Project has promoted and coordinated this event since 2002. We work in partnership with hundreds of organizations and networks, including World Ocean Network, the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and our activities are supported thanks to many others. Thank you also to the Government of Canada for proposing the idea of a World Ocean Day, at the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992, and to the United Nations for officially recognizing June 8th as World Oceans Day, since 2008."

WTF is Association of Zoos and Aquariums doing with oceans? Drop 'em like a stone, chumps!

 

[robert99]

Fish and reefs under siege as feuding South China Sea claimants refuse to cooperate
Fish and reefs under siege as feuding South China Sea claimants refuse to cooperate

Marine resources have been fished down to 5 per cent to 30 per cent of their 1950 levels, study finds.

The South China Sea, one of the world’s five most-productive fishing zones, suffers from severe illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities by 12 countries or territories, so much so that its marine resources have been fished down to 5 per cent to 30 per cent of their 1950 levels, according to a study by researchers at the University of British Columbia in Canada, published last year.

“Much of the South China Sea is basically a ‘free-for-all’ [area] in terms of fishing ... fishers of all countries in the area are heavily involved in IUU activities,” said Dr Michael Fabinyi, a senior research fellow at University of Technology Sydney, who has studied the use of marine resources.

 

[robert99]

Seoul, UNC crack down illegal Chinese fishing near inter-Korea borders
South Korea and the United Nations command on Friday deployed a team of military and police officials in neutral waters around the Han River estuary to clamp down on illegal fishing by Chinese boats, the Defense Ministry said.

It is the first time since the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice that the authorities of either Koreas have entered the river mouth for a military operation.