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Tuesday 26 January 2016 | Published in Local

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As international environmental agencies report that world fish stocks are in alarming decline and could be exhausted by 2048, the Ministry of Marine Resources is embarking on an expensive programme to entice support for increased harvesting of Cook Islands waters by foreign purse seiners and longliners.

As international environmental agencies report that world fish stocks are in alarming decline and could be exhausted by 2048, the Ministry of Marine Resources is embarking on an expensive programme to entice support for increased harvesting of Cook Islands waters by foreign purse seiners and longliners.


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