However, both are now seriously threatened by deforestation and invasive practices, including intensive mining and logging, extensive livestock activity, water pollution, degradation of headwaters, unregulated processes of urban settlement, construction of roads, waterways and dams, drainage and diversion of rivers, burning of forests and illegal fishing and trade in wildlife.
The new nation was a seafaring one, amassing great wealth from ship-building, whaling, fishing and maritime trade.
"Trade shows are great fishing expeditions for recruiters, " says Barry Shulman, a principal at San Francisco-based recruiting firm Shulman Associates Executive Search Inc.
Four centuries after the Golden Age, a period of prosperity and artistic achievement that transformed Amsterdam from a fishing village into a wealthy hub of international trade, this delightful city is in the middle of a new renaissance.
In 2003 the same Australian trade group tied Pacific Andes to several deep-sea fishing vessel owners from Spain, known as the Galician syndicate, and accused the company of helping process and distribute illegally caught toothfish.
Earlier this year, more than a hundred signed a letter to the World Trade Organization, urging it to scale back subsidies to the fishing sector.
The Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species gave warning last summer that over-fishing had put sturgeon in danger of extinction: 90% of the world's caviare comes from the Caspian.
Only after a country has adopted a policy on, say, salmon fishing or labelling may a trading partner bring a complaint that the policy inhibits trade.
The museum's collection vividly charts Dubai's rapid progress from a tiny pre-oil fishing and pearling village - and one of the world's first free-trade ports - through to the Arabian metropolis it is today.
The Department of Trade and Industry deals with most other industries, so why not farming and fishing too?
The proposals will not ban the fishing of these sharks but it will mean that for the first time, the international trade in them will be regulated.
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