Trawlerne opererer stort set uden kontrol ud for nationer, som ingen midler har til at håndhæve fiskerigrænser og omfanget af fangster – det rammer som altid millioner af fattige fiskere, der kæmper for at bringe mad på bordet.
Ældre læsere vil huske torskekrigen omkring Island, hvor ø-nationens små kanonbåde klippede trawlene på især britiske trawlere, når de fiskede indenfor Sagaøens udvidede fiskerigrænser. For islændingene betød fiskeriet alt og de vandt den langstrakte konflikt, der med mellemrum varede fra 1958 til 1976. Så godt er det store flertal af fattige u-lande ikke stillet.
JOHANNESBURG, 9 July 2012 (IRIN): Illegal and unregulated fishing is rampant (omsiggribende) worldwide, particularly off the coasts of West Africa and the Horn of Africa, and accounts for between 10 billion and 23 billion US dollar of direct (and stunning) losses globally every year.
This is the conclusion from the authors of the latest report on fisheries and aquaculture by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO).
“Illegal fishing has negative impacts which are biologi-cal, environmental, economic and social,” Michele Kuruc, a fisheries expert at FAO, told IRIN, adding:
“Much of the world’s fish are harvested from developing countries. In many cases fisheries management regimes – monito-ring, control and surveillance systems, enforcement (håndhævelse) and compliance (efterlevelse af regler) – are not sufficient in these places, making the fish stocks and communities which depend on them vulnerable.”
Illegal fishing and competition over dwindling resources from large-scale fishing vessels, including those operated by foreign companies without authorization, is one of the major problems facing small-scale fisheries in developing countries.
Small-scale fisheries directly affect the lives of about 357 million people.
More than 90 percent of the world’s fishermen play a huge role in improving food security and alleviating (afhjælpe) poverty, particularly in developing countries, says “The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2012” (SOFIA) the flagship FAO report on the industry.
A joint study by FAO, WorldFish Centre and World Bank, released in 2012, found that more than half (54 percent) of capture fisheries production in marine and inland waters (excluding aquaculture = kunstigt opdræt) was contributed by small-scale fisheries.
Overexploitation
Læs videre på
http://www.irinnews.org/Report/95825/FOOD-Fishy-business-the-cost-of-illegal-trawling
Se også FAOs presseomtale på
http://www.fao.org/news/story/en/item/150839/icode
og hele rapporten på http://www.fao.org/docrep/016/i2727e/i2727e.pdf
