'Free-for-all' decimates fish stocks in the southern Pacific

By Mort Rosenblum and Mar Cabra

Fishing fleets have devastated stocks in the southern Pacific, once among the world’s richest waters

Excerpts from this story referencing "Ifop":

"… les of Chile’s fisheries research center, Instituto de Fomento Pesquero (Ifop), said a safer limit would be 250,000 metric tons. Some dissenting experts …"

"… derstand about fisheries?”Chile, in fact, spent $10.5 million in 2011 on Ifop, its highly regarded scientific institute — one-fourth of its fisheries …"

"… y majority, and 60 percent of its members are from the industry.Each year, Ifop, the official research institute, recommends a quota to Subpesca, the Econ …"

"… that, the new limit is 80 percent of the previous year’s quota.In 2009, Ifop urged a sharp cut to 750,000 tons, according to the non-profit environment …"