Legislators Agree to Global Fisheries Recovery Strategy
08/06/10
On World Oceans Day, 8th June 2010, 40 senior Members of Parliament from 15 key fishing nations and regions, including Japan, US, Europe, Canada, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil agreed a global Marine Ecosystem Recovery Strategy intended to reverse the decline of global fisheries. The legislators were advised by the world’s leading scientific and policy experts who presented a bleak outlook for fishery stocks if immediate political action was not taken.