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Stop Massive World Bank (IFC) Supported Expansion of PNG Industrial Tuna Fish
Harvest
By Asples PNG (People of Papua New Guinea), a project of Ecological Internet
October 15, 2009
Over-fishing comes to Madang, Papua New Guinea, as local peoples prepare to
resist 10 tuna canneries. Support indigenous South Pacific coastal peoples as
they are peacefully protesting right now!
TAKE ACTION HERE NOW:
http://www.ecoearth.info/shared/alerts/send.aspx?id=png_tuna
In the peaceful South Pacific town of Madang, Papua New Guinea (PNG), the local
indigenous people are being inundated with foreign industrial "development"
projects -- mines, logging and fisheries -- for which they have not been
properly consulted, have not given their informed consent, and from which they
are unlikely to meaningfully benefit. This includes the PNG government's and
World Bank/IFC's plans with China and Japan's governments to facilitate and
invest in the construction of ten new tuna fish canneries and a large central
warehouse and worker settlement along Madang's beautiful coconut lined north
coast. A tranquil village culture -- living simply but well from small-scale
fishing -- will be decimated.
A US$300 million (K990m) Pacific Marine Industrial Zone (PMIZ) is planned that
will greatly increase industrial harvest of Madang, PNG and the Pacific
Islands' rich tuna resources. Canneries and dock and storage facilities are to
be constructed to service foreign fishing vessels that would dump their tuna
catch. It will bring tens of thousands of unskilled Asians into Papua New
Guinea when local unemployment is high. And it most certainly will lead to
fishery depletion and collapse. Unless this expansion of an already socially
and ecologically failed industrial tuna industry is resisted, overfishing and
piracy will destroy PNG and most of the world's remaining tuna and other
fisheries.
WATCH THE YOUTUBE VIDEO:
"Surviving the Cannery"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLkUPCci2QA&feature=player_embedded
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