Illegal Cod Fishing - Baltic Tour (Baltic Sea: 2006)

During an inspection Greenpeace finds a Polish fishing boat with nets for cod on-board. Fishing for cod is illegal in this area due to over-fishing.
Once so dense that fish could literally be scooped out of the sea, the majority of the cod stocks worldwide are now commercially extinct, or very close to it.

Unique identifier: GP018Z6

Type: Image

Shoot date: 13/09/2006

Locations: Baltic Sea, International Waters

Credit line: © Greenpeace / Christian Aslund

Ranking: ★★★★★★ (B)

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Oceans and Toxics Tour in the Baltic Sea

The Arctic Sunrise tours the Baltic Sea, as Greenpeace looks at issues concerning both oceans and toxics campaigns. They expose pirate fishing in the Baltic and highlight the threat to marine life species such as cod, which is being fished close to or beyond safe biological limits. In order to protect this area marine reserves need to be implemented. Greenpeace also stage an action against the cargo vessel Probo Koala. On 19th August this year the Probo Koala unloaded a toxic waste shipment in the West African town of Abidjan, Ivory Coast. This shipment killed seven people and poisoned another 44,000.

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