The Earth Island Institute was founded in 1982 by environmentalist David Brower.It organizes and encourages activism around environmental issues and provides public education. Funding comes from individual members and supporting organizations.
Through fiscal sponsorship, it provides the administrative and organizational framework for many individual projects that would otherwise be duplicating administrative requirements. Some of the projects have enjoyed significant success: a consumer-led boycott resulted in 100% of American tuna becoming "dolphin safe".
PNA wide-ranging operatiron to assist ships that collided near Argentine waters Argentina
The Argentine Naval Prefecture is deploying a wide-ranging operation to assist the Chinese flagged Zhongyuanyu 11 vessel and the Spanish fishing vessel Pesca Vaqueiro, which for reasons under investigation, collided at 9 nautical miles outside the Argentine EEZ.
EU will totally ban 'electric fishing' from 2021 European Union
The European Parliament and the UE member states reached an agreement to fully ban electric fishing in all waters, including those outside the EU, by 30 June 2021.
OCEANA denounces illegal use of anchovy to produce fishmeal Peru
The marine conservation organization OCEANA denounces the illegal diversion of some 150,000 tonnes of anchovy destined for human consumption per year to illegally process fishmeal, one of Peru's main export products.
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