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Overfishing in international waters has increased in the last five years and shows the need to ratify a recent global treaty to protect the high seas, warns a Greenpeace report released this Wednesday (13).
The NGO calls on as many countries as possible to sign the agreement next week, at the UN General Assembly, in New York. Concluded in June, the text was hailed as a historic agreement with the potential to increase ocean protection.
“The reality at sea is moving in the opposite direction to the treaty’s wishes”, highlights the report. Governments must act immediately, appealed Chris Thorne, responsible for Greenpeace’s oceans campaign, aboard an organization ship that docked today in Long Beach, in the US state of California, to participate in the presentation of the report.
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