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ARAL / AKTAU – The Aral Sea was once one of the largest lakes in the world, with bustling fishing villages lining its shores in Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan. Now it is the world’s youngest desert. The Caspian Sea, the world’s largest saltwater lake, is also shrinking rapidly: in twenty years, the water level has fallen by almost two metres and, in some places, the shoreline has receded by up to twenty kilometres.

IJMUIDEN - After pulse fishing was banned by the European Parliament in 2018, many Dutch fishermen switched to flyshooting. However, flyshoot fishing mainly targets species for which there is too little data to manage stocks properly. These are not subject to quotas and fishermen can take them out of the sea without limit. And that is a recipe for overfishing.