Island Press, 1993. Recycled, acid-free paper. Three hundred years later, the principles of mass-production applied to ocean harvest have proved the world's oceans to be finite.
Fish stocks are on the decline, and several species have been reduced to commercial extinction.
Moreover, the lobbying power of an ever more desperate fishing industry continues to threaten what national protection laws still exist. The problems of the high seas require more than national action, and it was in this spirit in 1990 that Greenpeace and three international peace institutes convened an ocean governance conference in Hawaii. It is interesting to note that among the key speakers at the meeting was Arvid Pardo. Pardo's address to the United Nations in 1967 helped spark the movement that would become the 1982 Convention on the Law of the Sea. FOR THE SEAS cite this UN convention.