TIME TO STOP THE DESTRUCTION

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Greenpeace International

2005

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Time to call a halt - the scandal of deep-water fishing 3

I IT’S LIFE … BUT NOT AS WE KNOW IT 4

i What lies beneath 4

ii Seamounts, mounds, ridges and canyons 4

iii The bizarre life of soft sediments … 5

iv … and the fragile beauty of deep water corals 6

II DEEP-SEA FISH 7

i Fish of seamounts and rocky seabeds 7

ii Open plain and continental slope fisheries 8

iii Deep sea fish and marine mammals 9

III THE SCANDAL OF DEEP WATER FISHERIES 10

i The sequential decimation of fish stocks 11

ii Collateral destruction 11

iii Deep sea corals 11

iv Seamounts 12

v Speak up for the holothurians . . . 13

vi . . . and don’t forget the bycatch. 13

IV WHO IS RESPONSIBLE? 14

i Time out, now! 14

ii The weakest link 15

iii Not so many fish in the sea 16

References 18