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Article: Billions Lost to Poaching by Organized Crime in Bering Sea WWF- Traffic Study Finds
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- U.S. Newswire
- Article date:
- December 11, 2001
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Advannce For Release at 12:01 a.m. on Wednesday, Dec. 12
/ADVANCE/ WASHINGTON, Dec. 12 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Illegal fishing
in the western Bering Sea - much of it controlled by the Russian
mafia - is contributing to the rapid collapse of the main fishery
supplying the United States and Russia, according to a year-long
investigative study by TRAFFIC, the wildlife trade monitoring
network of World Wildlife Fund.
The report finds that organized crime operators poach fish in
amounts worth 4 billion dollars each year, putting numerous marine
species at risk, and contributing to the collapse of the fishery
that supplies Russia and the U.S. with more than half of their fish
harvests.
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