Regional Fisheries Management Organisations or RFMOs, bodies in charge of fisheries management in the high seas, are trying to water down the High Seas Treaty’s capacity to deliver on protecting 30% of the ocean by 2030, and give themselves additional powers that would significantly restrict ocean protection measures. Campaigners are sounding the alarm on this proposed text which RFMOs have lobbied for. These amendments would shore up RFMOs own supremacy, after decades of destruction, and stall and derail ocean protection measures like ocean sanctuary proposals. With only two days left…
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