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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 12, 2001
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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 United States with more than half of
their fish harvests.
Bordered by Russia on the west and Alaska on the east, the Bering
Sea ...