WWF call to manage marine life

WWF call to manage marine life

19 January 2006 - 23 January 2006

Source: The Standard - China's Business Newspaper A worldwide conservation group has sent a letter to Financial Secretary Henry Tang, calling on him to fund a sustainable fisheries policy to help counter the depletion of global marine stocks. Eric Bohm, chief executive of WWF Hong Kong, wrote the missive criticizing Tang - who is composing the city's annual budget - for not making enough time to learn about the need to manage marine life in the South China Sea, despite being contacted about the problem on November 24. "It has become increasingly obvious to us the government seems to hope the problem will just go away, which it will, but with devastating consequences," Bohm said in the letter forwarded to Chief Executive Donald Tsang, Health, Welfare and Food Secretary York Chow and Secretary for the Environment, Transport and Works Sarah Liao.

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