fishing

One difficulty stopping the boats is that it is legal to carry inflatables across Europe; they might be used for a fishing trip.

Trump sharply reduced the boundaries of two monuments in Utah — Bear’s Ears and Grand Staircase — and stripped protections from a marine monument off the coast of New England to allow commercial fishing.

Local communities believe that certain fishing practices, such as spearfishing with scuba gear and semi-industrial fishing with purse seines and night lights, are major contributors to the decline of fish stocks.

Coral reefs also underpin the livelihoods of one billion people including by supporting tourism or fishing, according to the World Economic Forum.

“One minute he was fishing and the next moment he was gone,” she says of her father’s decline, recalling how quickly the disease spread.