Overfishing

People snorkel in the Mediterranean Sea in Gador sea reserve, in Hadera, northern Israel, Saturday, Oct. 29, 2022. Climate change, invasive species and explosive human activity are threatening what remains of the eastern Mediterranean's severely impacted ecosystems. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)

Israel rushes to protect marine life as Mediterranean warms

Israel is blazing forward with a plan to protect sections of its 118-mile Mediterranean coastline, a measure experts say is crucial to maintain biodiversity and shield ecosystems from humanity.

FILE - A fisherman unloads his catch in the port of Suao, north eastern Taiwan, June 21, 2015. More than 100,000 people die in fishing related accidents a year, more than triple earlier estimates, and many of those fatalities were preventable, according to a report released Thursday, Nov. 3, 2022. (AP Photo/Wally Santana, File)

Report: Over 100,000 fishing-related deaths occur annually

FILE - Clam digger Scott Lavers paddles his canoe on his way to work on a mudflat exposed by the receding tide, in this Friday, Sept. 4, 2020, file photo in Freeport, Maine. Warming waters and invasive species are threatening a way of life for many in the country's seafood industry. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Fishermen face shutdowns as warming hurts species

New Zealand Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern, second right, with her partner Clarke Gayford, right, are explained the sites by Antarctica New Zealand chief executive Sarah Williamson shortly after stepping off the plane in Antarctica, Wednesday, Oct. 26, 2022. Delegations from Russia and Ukraine are among those meeting in Australia this week to decide the future of Antarctica's pristine waters. (Mike Scott/NZ Herald/Pool via AP)

Russia may again block Antarctic marine protections

FILE - Fillets of Chilean sea bass caught near the U.K.-controlled South Georgia island are displayed for sale at a Whole Foods Market in Cleveland, Ohio, June 17, 2022. Southern Cross Seafoods said in a complaint filed in Oct. 2022 in the U.S. International Trade Court that the decision to bar importation of Chilean sea bass was arbitrary, illegal and would cause significant economic harm to its business. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman, File)

Texas importer sues government in fish feud at end of world

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Appeals court says NC fisheries challenge can continue

Piyush Goyal, Minister of Commerce and Industry and Minister of Consumer Affairs of India, speaks in front of journalists before the closing of the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12), at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, June 16, 2022. Talks are going down to the wire as the World Trade Organization is set to wrap up its first ministerial-level meeting in more than four years.(Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO talks down to the wire with no major deals yet in sight

Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, left, and Timur Suleimenov, Chair of the 12th Ministerial Conference attend a press conference before the opening of the 12th Ministerial Conference at the headquarters of the World Trade Organization (WTO), in Geneva, Switzerland, Sunday, June 12, 2022. For the first time in 4 1/2 years, after a pandemic pause, government ministers from WTO countries will gather for four days starting Sunday to tackle issues like overfishing of the seas, COVID-19 vaccines for the developing world and food security. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO holds big meeting to tackle vaccines, food shortages

Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, Director General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO), attends an event on World Ocean Day with Finley the fish, made of ice, on place des Nations before of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference (MC12) where a deal to end harmful fisheries subsidies could be reached in Geneva, Switzerland, Wednesday, June 8, 2022. (Salvatore Di Nolfi/Keystone via AP)

WTO looks to reach trade deals with its fate on the line

FILE - A cod that will be auctioned off is held by Codie Small, on Oct. 29, 2015, at the Portland Fish Exchange in Portland, Maine. New data from the federal government shows that the Atlantic cod fishery had the worst year in its centuries-long history in 2021. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty, File)

Haul of Atlantic cod, once abundant, reaches new low

Maine’s most fertile scalloping grounds closed for season

French President Emmanuel Macron, center, listens to European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen delivering her speech during the One Ocean Summit, in Brest, Brittany, Friday Feb. 11, 2022. World leaders are trying to save the planet's oceans in talks on France's Atlantic coast, aimed at fighting overfishing and plastic pollution, and finding fairer ways to manage the seas. (Ludovic Marin, Pool via AP)

World leaders at France summit mull ways to protect oceans

Productive Maine scalloping grounds might close for year

This photo provided by @alexis.rosenfeld shows corals shaped like roses in the waters off the coast of Tahiti of the French Polynesia in December 2021. Deep in the South Pacific, scientists have explored a rare stretch of pristine corals shaped like roses off the coast of Tahiti. The reef is thought to be one of the largest found at such depths and seems untouched by climate change or human activities. (Alexis Rosenfeld/@alexis.rosenfeld via AP)

Rare, pristine coral reef found off Tahiti coast

French Minister for the Sea Annick Girardin, center, signs papers during a meeting of EU agriculture ministers at the European Council building in Brussels on Monday, Dec. 13, 2021. (AP Photo/Virginia Mayo)

EU nations set fish quota leaving environmentalists outraged

Cod fishing limits to be slashed again, regulators say

Concrete blocks and barriers are installed to protect the access to the World Trade Organization headquarters, WTO, in order to secure the premises to host the WTO12 in Geneva, Switzerland, Thursday, Nov. 25, 2021. WTO's 12th Ministerial Conference is to be held in Geneva, Switzerland, from Nov. 30 to Dec. 3, 2021. (Martial Trezzini/Keystone via AP)

WTO delays key meeting amid COVID variant concerns

Atlantic mackerel fishing shut down for the rest of the year

In this July 2021 photo provided by Sea Shepherd, a Chinese-flagged ship fishes for squid at night on the high seas off the west coast of South America. The number of Chinese-flagged vessels in the south Pacific has surged 10-fold from 54 active vessels in 2009 to 557 in 2020, according to the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization, or SPRFMO, an inter-governmental group of 15 members charged with ensuring the conservation and sustainable fishing of the species. Meanwhile, the size of its catch has grown from 70,000 tons in 2009 to 358,000. (Isaac Haslam/Sea Shepherd via AP)

Great Wall of Lights: China’s sea power on Darwin’s doorstep

VIDEO: Sea of lights | Tracking China’s fishing fleet

The Chinese-flagged Zhong Yuan Yu 16 sails at dusk on the high seas near the Galapagos Islands on July 18, 2021. In the summer of 2020, hundreds of Chinese vessels were discovered fishing for squid near the long-isolated Galapagos Islands, a UNESCO world heritage site that inspired 19th-century naturalist Charles Darwin and is home to some of the world’s most endangered marine species, from giant tortoises to hammerhead sharks. (AP Photo/Joshua Goodman)

Takeaways from AP and Univision China Fishing Investigation

View from the 7th Continent expedition sailing ship as French President Emmanuel Macron with a delegation go admire the Calanques National Park, a marine reserve known for its azure blue waters overhung by high white cliffs, near Marseille, southern France, Friday Sept. 3, 2021. Macron is expected to urge the world to better protect biodiversity as key to fight climate change and support human welfare at a global summit starting Friday in southern France. (AP Photo/Daniel Cole, pool)

Report: More sharks, rays threatened with extinction

This September 12, 2018 photo provided by the Great Lakes Fishery Commission shows a lake trout swimming off Isle Royale, Mich., in Lake Superior. Lake trout were once the most dominant fish predator fish species in the Great Lakes but declined in the 20th century because of attacks from invasive sea lamprey, plus overfishing and pollution. Researchers announced Tuesday, Aug, 24, 2021, that they have completed work on mapping a reference genome for lake trout, which will help researchers working to restore the fish in the Great Lakes and elsewhere across North America. (Andrew Muiri/Great Lakes Fishery Commission via AP)

Genetic mapping boosts hopes for restoring prized lake trout

In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 photo, released by the Mote Marine Laboratory, a Goliath Grouper swims at Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, Fla. Florida may lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath groupers. Wildlife officials are proposing, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, a “limited harvest” of the giant coastal fish, saying their numbers have rebounded sufficiently since they were almost driven to extinction by overfishing and environmental damage. (Conor Goulding/Mote Marine Laboratory via AP)

Florida takes step toward the catching of goliath grouper

In this Monday, Nov. 5, 2018 photo, released by the Mote Marine Laboratory, a Goliath Grouper swims at Mote Aquarium in Sarasota, Fla. Florida may lift its three-decade ban on catching and killing goliath groupers. Wildlife officials are proposing, Wednesday, May 12, 2021, a “limited harvest” of the giant coastal fish, saying their numbers have rebounded sufficiently since they were almost driven to extinction by overfishing and environmental damage. (Conor Goulding/Mote Marine Laboratory via AP)

Florida weighs allowing limited harvest of goliath grouper

FILE - In this Wednesday, April 17, 2019 file photo, a worker cleans an electric vehicle at the BMW booth during the Auto Shanghai 2019 show in Shanghai. Automakers BMW and Volvo announced Wednesday, March 31, 2021 that they support a moratorium on deep sea mining for minerals used in electric vehicle batteries. The call was also backed by Samsung’s EV battery unit and tech giant Google. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan, file)

Automakers BMW, Volvo back moratorium on deep seabed mining

New Director-General of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala arrives at the WTO headquarters to takes office in Geneva, Switzerland, Monday, March 1, 2021. Nigeria's Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala takes the reins of the WTO amid hope she will infuse the beleaguered body with fresh momentum to address towering challenges and a pandemic-fuelled global economic crisis. (Fabrice Coffrini/Pool/Keystone via AP)

New WTO chief pushes for vaccine access, fisheries deal

FILE - In this Sunday, Jan. 5, 2020, file photo, a sushi chef holds up the head of a bluefin tuna at a restaurant in Tsukji market area in Tokyo, after it was sold at the first auction of the year at Tokyo's Toyosu fish market. Countries involved in managing bluefin tuna fisheries are set to face-off over a Japanese proposal to raise its catch quotas for the fish, highly prized for sushi and sashimi. At an online meeting that began Tuesday, Oct. 6, 2020, Japan is seeking to raise its catch limits for both smaller and larger bluefin tuna by 20%. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)

Japan seeks to boost catch limits of prized bluefin tuna

FILE - In this Aug. 13, 2017 handout file photo provided by Galapagos National Park, a park ranger takes part in the inspection of a Chinese flagship where 300 tons of marine species, several of them in danger of extinction, were found, in Galapagos Islands, Ecuador, as the ship and its crew are detained. In July 2020, a congregation of about 260 mostly Chinese fishing vessels near the Galápagos archipelago is stirring diplomatic tension and raising concerns about the threat to sharks, manta rays, and other vulnerable species in waters around the UNESCO world heritage site. (Galapagos National Park via AP, File)

260 Chinese boats fish near Galapagos; Ecuador on alert

Overfished bluefish subject to less harvest in ’20, ’21

China mourns native paddlefish scientists say is now extinct

In this Tuesday, Nov. 26, 2019 photo, Workers prepare to attach suction hose to the menhaden fishing boat Windmill Point at Omega Protein's menhaden processing plant on Cockrell's Creek in Reedville, Va. The Trump Administration is threatening to effectively ban a company that makes fish oil pills from fishing in the Chesapeake Bay over mounting concerns from regulators, governors and environmental groups about overfishing. Earlier this year, the company Omega Protein exceeded harvest limits in the bay by more than 30% on a bony and oily fish called Atlantic menhaden. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Fish oil firm may be barred from fishing in Chesapeake Bay

This Oct. 29, 2015 file photograph shows a cod that will be auctioned off, held by Codie Small, at the Portland Fish Exchange in Portland, Maine. Fishing regulators are proposing another cutback to the catch limits for Atlantic cod, but some environmentalists say the move isn't significant enough to slow the loss of the species. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty)

Another cut in cod fishing not enough for environmentalists

Map locates shellfish decline along East Coast.;

Warming hurting shellfish, aiding predators, ruining habitat

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