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Do you know what is the common point between people in Chile, Thailand, Senegal, Sri Lanka or even Greece? ⁣ ⁣ They are all pushing against unsustainable practices and industrial exploitation that are devastating marine biodiversity and impoverishing people, in most cases for the short-term benefit of a few, often corporations and governments with their own interests. From state-imposed industrial megaprojects and destructive fishing in Thailand, to intensive aquaculture in Chilean Patagonia, fishmeal and fish oil factories in West Africa, and bottom trawling in Sri Lanka. ⁣ ⁣ Coastal regions are also facing growing climate change impacts, devastating in a particular way coastal people through sea level rise, more intense storms, loss of fishing grounds and tourism opportunities. ⁣ ⁣ Different seas, common threats. But there is more to what brings them together.⁣ ⁣ Small-scale fishers, coastal communities and Indigenous Peoples have been sustainably managing the ocean, protecting biodi...

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