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Shrinking shrimps

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Title Shrinking shrimps
 
Creator Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Description The volume of industrial fishing of shrimps off Madagascar is lower than expected. The targeted level was 8,000 tonnes, but the current harvest has yielded less than 7,000 tonnes compared with the exceptional levels of 9,250 in 1998. The cause does not lie in the weather, which has been favourable, or in flagging efforts by the industry. Scientists say that the decline is the first sign of overfishing.

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The volume of industrial fishing of shrimps off Madagascar is lower than expected. The targeted level was 8,000 tonnes, but the current harvest has yielded less than 7,000 tonnes compared with the exceptional levels of 9,250 in 1998. The cause does...
 
Date 2001
2014-10-16T09:05:43Z
2014-10-16T09:05:43Z
 
Type News Item
 
Identifier CTA. 2001. Shrinking shrimps. Spore 91. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46046
https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99594
 
Language en
 
Relation Spore;91
 
Rights Open Access
 
Publisher Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
 
Source Spore