Galapagos Conservation
Check out on-going conservation
by the Galapagos conservation
Trust and others at the following
websites;
http://www.gct.org/conserve.html
(Galapagos conservation Trust;
UK based)
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For an update on
what's new in the Islands, visit the Charles Darwin Foundation, Inc
webpage - "What's New" at this address;
http://www.galapagos.org/whatsnew.html
Other News:
10/19/2004
Galapagos Update; Visit http://www.seashepherd.org/news/media_041019_2.html for an
interesting update!
10/21/2004
Sea Cucumber Fishery in the Galapagos Falls
Short of Quota
After months of delays
caused
by rioting fishermen, court cases and political intrigues, the
fishermen of the Galapagos managed to bully their way into conducting a
sea cucumber fishery.
The government allotted them four million
units (i.e. four million lives) to be taken between August 12 and
October 10.The final legal take was 2,771,712 sea cucumbers. The
fishermen were short of their quota by 1,228,288. However, this figure
does not include the numbers taken illegally by poachers.
This
is a positive development on one hand but a negative development on the
other, considering the Galapagos National Park originally said that the
species was already depleted and no quota should be allocated.
The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society patrol vessel Sirenian was
engaged in the policing of this fishery during the sixty day period.
The Society is currently trying to raise funds for repairs and
maintenance on the Sirenian to enable her to continue
policing work in the Galapagos National Park.
courtesy of ; Sea
Shepherd conservation society.
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