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	<description>Join the Alliance for the Seas!</description>
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		<title>New York Times News: Illegal Fishermen 4, Enforcement 0</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:18:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Illegal Fishermen 4, Enforcement 0 (Click here to read full article) Illegal fishing is a problem pretty much everywhere that regulations meet fish. As I noted in September, the United States government puts the global cost of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing at up to $23 billion in lost income for legal fishermen and coastal communities. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>President swears in commission to improve marine governance</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 Dec 2011 15:04:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(*Press release translated from official Presidential House´s website: Presidenta juramenta comisión para mejorar la buena gobernanza marina) San José, December 20, 2011 This morning at the close of the Government Council session, Costa Rican President Laura Chinchilla swore in a commission whose objective will be to diagnose, evaluate, and recommend precise changes for the country’s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Vote for Pretoma at The Tank Bangers</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Nov 2011 14:16:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tank Bangers is diver band that wants to support marine conservation. The band will soon produce a single &#8220;Our Blue&#8221;, and has committed to donating part of the profits to a marine conservation NGO.  Pretoma could be that NGO!  The benefitted NGO will be elected through an internet vote.  There is time until Monday.  [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Incopesca permissive with foreign shark finners</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Sep 2011 18:14:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Once again, Incopesca shows its commitment to protect the interests of foreign shark finning fleets, at any cost.  According to statements by Luis Dobles, President of Incopesca, last September 4th in this newspaper (pg 16), the Belize flagged Tawianese vessel Wai Jai Men 89, admitted that about 5% to 10% of its cargo of 20,000 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Sustainable Fishing/Tourism Project</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 19 Aug 2011 17:47:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our coasts are on the edge.  With a global race being run to exploit coastal resources, we push these areas of economic, environmental, and social importance closer to the tipping point.  Assuming these pressures will not subside in the foreseeable future, we must begin to identify and implement sustainable development strategies for the planet’s coastal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Shark finning at large in Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 01 Aug 2011 17:47:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Read the Opinion of Randall Arauz in La Nación, August 1st, 2010.  “Shark finning at large in Costa Rica”.]]></description>
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		<title>Costa Rican shrimp will continue embargoed by the United States</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 23:10:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Asociación Pretoma</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(June 2, 2011 – San José, Costa Rica) Shrimp exports to the United States will continue embargoed, according to Public Notice 7490 issued by the State Department last May 27, pursuant to section 609 Law 101-162, which imposes embargoes on shrimp from nations whose fleets do not protect sea turtles from drowning in shrimp trawl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pretoma news April 18</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Apr 2011 20:31:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Andy</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[International experts call for increased protection of leatherback sea turtles in Eastern Tropical Pacific (April 18, 2011 – San José, Costa Rica) The International Sea Turtle Society (ISTS), a group of renowned experts on sea turtle biology and conservation, gathered during the 31st Annual Sea Turtle Symposium in San Diego, California, last week, unanimously adopted [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sea Turtle and Shark Tagging Expedition in Southern Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Feb 2011 02:03:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Administrator</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[&#160; Sea Turtle and Shark Tagging Expedition in Southern Nicoya Peninsula, Costa Rica. From February 10th to 17th, 2011 a team of 9 researchers from both PRETOMA and CIMAR, have embarked on the yacht Sirenus to investigate the southern coast of the Nicoya Peninsula.  The a purpose of this expedition is to tag sharks and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Belize Prohibe Pesca de arrastre en Zona Económica Exclusiva</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Dec 2010 23:09:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Miguel</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click here to read article: Belize Bans Bottom Trawling in Exclusive Economic Zone]]></description>
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