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and more vulnerable - to the rest of the world.\u003cbr/\u003eMinisters and senior officials gathered in Christchurch early on Sunday to exchange suits and ties for more practical heavyweight polar clothing.\u003cbr/\u003eOn Monday, they are due to due to fly to New Zealand's Scott Base, a clutch of mint-green, one-story buildings huddled on the Ross Sea coast.\u003cbr/\u003eThere, they will spend two days discussing environmental problems, fishing disputes and the boom in tourism.\u003cbr/\u003eThe most pressing and dramatic issue is not on the mainland, however, but in the Southern Ocean, where at least 70 illegal fishing ships are plundering the toothfish catch.\u003cbr/\u003eThere is widespread concern that such over-fishing could disrupt the delicate balance of the region's ecosystem.\u003cbr/\u003eMany countries also accuse the illegal fisherman of acting like pirates - one illegal vessel threatened to ram a licensed New Zealand fishing boat and legal Australian ships have also been menaced.\u003cbr/\u003eAustralia and France have used warships to detain some boats in the Antarctic waters they control and Britain has sent patrol boats to chase others away from around South Georgia Island. \u003cbr/\u003eNew Zealand is flying air force reconnaissance planes over the Ross Sea and is considering dispatching a frigate.\u003cbr/\u003eBut the illegal fishing continues and the stakes are high. \u003cbr/\u003eThe illegal vessels are making 500 (m) million U-S dollars a year hauling in 110-thousand tons of toothfish, twice the amount of the legal catch.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 80 percent of the illegally fished stock is unloaded in Mauritius. \u003cbr/\u003eSome 75 percent goes to Japan and the remainder to the United States.\u003cbr/\u003eAt the Antarctic Treaty meeting, Australia will push for an internationally monitored catch certification system as well as a satellite vessel monitoring to help identify boats fishing illegally.\u003cbr/\u003eGreenpeace has sent its ship M-V Arctic Sunrise to look for illegal fishing ships to dramatise the issue.\u003cbr/\u003eLast year, new provisions in the Antarctic treaty declaring a moratorium on mining and petroleum exploration came into force.\u003cbr/\u003eBut offshore exploitation, such as the toothfish poaching, remains unaddressed.\u003cbr/\u003eFor some delegates, though, history and adventure seem as important as the environmental issues of the summit.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I'm very excited. I've travelled to the Canadian Arctic and going south is really very exciting for me. Of course like so many small boys of 50 years ago I grew up with the stories of Shackleton, the stories of Mawson, and I'm looking forward to seeing the sights where they in fact carried out some of that magnificent heroic exploration of a century ago.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: David Anderson, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans  \u003cbr/\u003eThe summit organisers hope the variety of representatives will help raise the profile of the region's ecosystem.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"I think so that I'm ... I will be very interested to see how that we will get a contact between us. We are different ministers. I'm a Minister of Foreign Affairs and that's because this is the political commitment to the whole matter. Some others are in the areas of the substance, so they are the ministers of the environment and so on. But I think we will have something that ties us in the future.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Tarja Halonen, Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs \u003cbr/\u003eSignatories of the Antarctic Treaty are bound by a concern for the stability of Earth's last frontier.\u003cbr/\u003eAnd there is a consensus among delegates on the importance of looking after the frozen continent.\u003cbr/\u003eSOUNDBITE: (English)\u003cbr/\u003e\"The challenge for the countries is very important. I think that we have to mange to set a kind of, perhaps a kind of common force to control and to impose sanctions to people who violate the Treaty. This, for me, is very very important. If we don't have that, the Antarctic, perhaps we are going to lose it.\"\u003cbr/\u003eSUPER CAPTION: Dr Fernando de Trazegnies, Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs    \u003cbr/\u003eThis clutch of buildings huddled on the Ross Sea coast will be the delegates' destination - Scott Base.\u003cbr/\u003eIt is from here that they will monitor the ecological situation in Antarctica.\u003cbr/\u003eBut in addition to the environmental challenges facing the continent, delegates will also discuss historic sites, science and tourism.\u003cbr/\u003eTourism brings 15-thousand people a year to Antarctica, mostly from cruise ships that fly helicopters inland.\u003cbr/\u003eThe delegates will also visit Italian, American and New Zealand scientists at their bases, like the McMurdo Station, which grows to a population of 12-hundred in the southern hemisphere summer.\u003cbr/\u003eThey also plan to visit historic huts built by expeditions under Robert F. Scott and Ernest Shackleton in the heroic era of Antarctic exploration.\u003cbr/\u003e Christchurch, New Zealand and Scott Base, Antarctica - January 23 and 24 1999 \u003cbr/\u003eChristchurch, New Zealand - Jan 24\u003cbr/\u003e1. David Anderson, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans, getting dressed\u003cbr/\u003e2. Boot\u003cbr/\u003e3. Various of international ministers dressing\u003cbr/\u003e4. New Zealand officials outside Finnish dressing room\u003cbr/\u003e5. Finnish officials being kitted up\u003cbr/\u003e6. Finland's Minister of Foreign Affairs putting on hat\u003cbr/\u003e7. Minister zipping up suit\u003cbr/\u003e8. Peruvian Minister and New Zealand official\u003cbr/\u003e9. Various of ministers watching briefing video on Antarctic\u003cbr/\u003e10. Anderson\u003cbr/\u003e11. SOUNDBITE (English) David Anderson, Canadian Minister of Fisheries and Oceans \u003cbr/\u003e12. Lyttleton Harbour\u003cbr/\u003e13. SOUNDBITE (English) Tarja Halonen, Finland's Minister for Foreign Affairs\u003cbr/\u003e14. Various Christchurch street scenes\u003cbr/\u003e15. SOUNDBITE (English) Dr Fernando de Trazegnies, Peruvian Minister of Foreign Affairs\u003cbr/\u003eScott Base, Antarctica - Jan 23\u003cbr/\u003e16. Scott Base\u003cbr/\u003e17. Sign\u003cbr/\u003e18. Interior cockpit\u003cbr/\u003e19. View from aeroplane\u003cbr/\u003e20. Various inside plane\u003cbr/\u003e21. Ship in ice\u003cbr/\u003e22. Various Russian scientists arrive at base\u003cbr/\u003e23. Car crosses ice\u003cbr/\u003e24. People looking at seal\u003cbr/\u003e25. Seal\u003cbr/\u003e26. 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