The first Rio Earth Summit in 1992 called for nations to find ways to conserve fish stocks and prevent international conflicts over fishing on the high seas.
In some cases, the British government actually commissioned seamen to commit acts of piracy, but with one catch: They were charged to prey only upon Spaniards, British rivals on the high seas and in the New World, and turn over a large portion of the stolen loot to the government.
The researchers say the Nordic Seas are acidifying over a wide range of depths - most quickly in surface waters and more slowly in deep waters.
Tough work in extreme elements, magnified this day by rough seas that repeatedly send water over the side and the stern onto the deck.
The vehicle's movement, especially over choppy seas, can encourage nausea.
It's a mysterious landscape of cliffs and valleys sculpted over millions of years by advancing and retreating seas and the jostling of tectonic plates.
Mitt Romney is almost entirely silent over the issue, using it in the first presidential debate only to swat President Barack Obama for worrying about the rising seas rather than Americans at home.
During the rainy season, the Amazon crashes over its banks, turning entire forests into inland seas and swelling to an average of 28 miles wide along its inland length and 300 miles wide at its mouth.
In particularly rough seas during the cruise, Michele-Marie says that everyone was falling over and suffering from seasickness apart from her.
Protection for key nature sites in UK seas has come a step closer with the unveiling of proposals to create over 100 Marine Conservation Zones (MCZs).
As the boat is slammed by searing winds and tumultuous seas, he staggers around, sliding over slippery decks, seasick, bruised, exhausted and wholly in awe of the crew's ability to work on the roiling deck, in the pitching gutting room and the ice-filled hold.
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