Tag: waters
Herring fishing continues in the waters near Finland
The herring fishing quota in the Baltic Sea will also be reduced in the decision. The EU Agriculture and Fisheries Council has agreed on new fishing quotas for the Baltic…
Discharge of Fukushima waters: Russia suspends imports of seafood products from Japan
Russia’s agricultural products regulatory agency is implementing precautionary measures regarding the import of fish and seafood, just like China. Many of Japan’s neighbors denounce this decision to discharge water from…
The parliament rejects the herring fishing ban in Finland’s nearby waters – the commission sticks to its proposal, but asks for more information
In the opinion of the committees, the Commission’s proposal is “disproportionate and inconsistent with scientific advice”. The Parliament’s Agriculture and Forestry Committee and the Environment Committee both reject in their…
Anne-Sophie Roux: “Treaty on the high seas, the idea is to protect international waters”
Opening at the UN on the sidelines of the 78th General Assembly of this organization, of the signatures of the treaty on the protection of the high seas. Anne-Sophie Roux,…
Chinese surveillance buoy in Japanese waters sows discord between the two countries
Since the start of Japan’s discharge into the sea of water treated from the Fukushima nuclear power plant on August 24, relations have been at their lowest point between Tokyo…
Waters are getting warmer in Asia! Flash reaction from South Korea to the Russia-North Korea arms deal: “If a serious threat occurs…”
North Korea’s political moves in the Asian continent increase war concerns on the continent. Finally, the arms supply agreement signed after North Korean leader Kim’s meeting with Russian leader Putin…
Cotonou threatened by rising waters alert experts
Cotonou, as in all major coastal cities, is exposed to rising waters. Experts and institutions in charge of the issue of global warming monitor and alert on the issue. The…
two vacationers killed, including a Franco-Moroccan, in the waters on the border with Algeria
Two holidaymakers, including at least one Frenchman, were killed this week in the waters on the border of the two countries. Another is currently incarcerated in Algeria. According to the…
Discharge of Fukushima waters: “The Japanese population remains strongly divided”
Cécile Asanuma-Brice co-directs the Mitate-Lab, an international CNRS research project that studies the situation following the Fukushima disaster. While the site’s wastewater discharges into the Pacific Ocean fuel tensions, she…
Discharge of Fukushima waters: why China and Hong Kong are alarmed
Japan has planned to begin the evacuation into the Pacific Ocean of more than a million liters of water from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, devastated by a…