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  • El Niño and Militarized Fisheries Disputes in the East and South China Seas

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    Guest Contributor  //  August 22, 2023  //  By Cullen Hendrix & Sarah Glaser
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    Earlier this summer, the Armed Forces of the Philippines spotted dozens of Chinese fishing vessels in—or very near to—the Philippines’ exclusive economic zone. This influx occurred just weeks after the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced, “El Niño is here.”

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  • From Joseph Kony to Nile Perch: Complex Links Hook Armed Conflict to Fisheries

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 1, 2019  //  By Sarah Glaser & Cullen Hendrix
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    In “Africa’s smallest war,” both Kenya and Uganda lay claim to Migingo Island, a tiny island in the waters of Lake Victoria. While the claims are over the island, the conflict is about something else entirely: Lates niloticus, also known as Nile perch, a tasty white fish that swims in the waters surrounding the island. The fish forms the backbone of the Lake Victoria economy but is increasingly hard to come by along the lakeshore. Catches are in decline, incomes are dropping, and the Ugandan government is taking increasingly harsh, militarized steps to help revive the fishery.

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  • Blockade of Yemeni Ports Has Unintended Consequences on Food Security, Somali Fishing Industry

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    Guest Contributor  //  April 23, 2015  //  By Sarah Glaser
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    Hundreds of Yemenis have been killed since Houthi rebels overthrew President Abdu Rabu Mansour Hadi at the beginning of April. The instability next door has led Saudi Arabia to intervene with a bombing campaign and, most recently, impose a blockade of Yemen’s port cities to cut off what they claim is Iranian resupply of rebels. Besides blocking weapons though, the blockade is also having a major impact on food security and food assistance, and is even affecting livelihoods in Somalia.

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