Shrinking shrimps
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Shrinking shrimps
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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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 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. We were warned. 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... |
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Date |
2001
2014-10-16T09:05:43Z 2014-10-16T09:05:43Z |
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News Item
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CTA. 2001. Shrinking shrimps. Spore 91. CTA, Wageningen, The Netherlands.
1011-0054 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/46046 https://hdl.handle.net/10568/99594 |
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en
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Spore;91
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Open Access
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Technical Centre for Agricultural and Rural Cooperation
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Spore
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