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Indonesia has been waging a war on illegal fishing since 2014, claiming the practice negatively impacts the local economy.
People gather in front of the Danish parliament in Copenhagen to call for the release of anti-whaling activist Paul Watson. Watson founded Sea Shepherd and the Captain Paul Watson Foundation (CPWF) and is known for radical tactics, including confrontations with whaling ships at sea. He was arrested on July 21 on the basis of an Interpol "Red Notice" after Japan accused him of causing damage to one of its whaling ships in the Antarctic two years earlier and causing injury. IMAGES
Hundreds of villagers participate in a traditional mass fishing event during Bhogali Bihu celebrations at Bamuni Lake, near Guwahati, the capital city of India's northeastern Assam state, to mark the end of the harvesting season. IMAGES
Images released by the Brazilian Institute for Environment and Renewable Natural Resources (Ibama) show illegal shark fins confiscated in southern Brazil and headed to Asia. Brazilian authorities consider the seizure, totalling 29 tons as possibly the largest such seizure ever. IMAGES
"Soon the end of a profession, thank you NGOs": angry fishermen are demonstrating in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, a seaside town in southwest France, to warn of "the death of small-scale fishing" as part of a "dead channel" operation in French ports. They denounce in particular the decision of the State Council to impose within six months the closure of certain fishing zones in the Atlantic in order to preserve dolphins, whose strandings have multiplied in the Bay of Biscay. IMAGES
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