Press Releases
Threatened Fisheries Within the Global 200 Marine Ecoregions










14 September 1998
WWF Fisheries Conference Seeks Solutions to Current Crisis
LISBON --WWF, the world's largest conservation organization, unveiled a new map today showing threatened fisheries within the world's most biologically important marine areas and called on governments and industry to find new solutions to halt the escalating global fisheries crisis.

9 September 1998
Distant Water Fishing Threatens World Fisheries
BRUSSELS, Belgium: Oversized, distant water fishing fleets are pillaging the world's oceans, often in the waters of developing countries where they threaten the existence of local fisheries, WWF warned today.






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