Source & Author: MercoPress Spanish Justices found that national law is insufficient to pin a crime on persons when acts are committed in a place where those acts are not a criminal offence.
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31 Jan
2017
2017
Month: January 2017
31 Jan
2017
2017
Source: CitizenSci Author: Adam Reyer Hundreds of millions of people depend on the ocean for their livelihoods, and almost 3 billion rely on it as a protein source. But countless threats — overfishing, destructive fishing practices, bycatch, dishonest catch reporting, habitat destruction — threaten our oceans and the people who depend on them.
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30 Jan
2017
2017
Source & Author: International Organisation for Migration A new government decree based in part on IOM’s ground-breaking research into human trafficking in the Indonesian fisheries will address chronic human rights abuses in the industry, the country’s Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries (KKP) says.
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30 Jan
2017
2017
Source & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing Recent measures introduced in Ghana are offering stronger means of fighting illegal fishing. New legislation, increased sanctions, improved monitoring, control and inspection capacity, and mandatory IMO numbers for the industrial fleet are all contributing to a more compliant sector.
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27 Jan
2017
2017
Source & Author: Consilium On 26 January 2017 the Council, led by the Maltese presidency, reached a preliminary political agreement with the European Parliament on a draft regulation defining the specifications of fishing vessels.
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26 Jan
2017
2017
Source: WWF Author: Eszter Hidas Since 2013, WWF and its partners* have been highlighting the urgent need for the establishment of an electronic system to facilitate the detection and blocking of imports of illegally caught seafood products into the EU, under the EU’s Regulation to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing [i].
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25 Jan
2017
2017
Source: WWF Author: Victoria Mundy In a Communication to the European Parliament and Council dated 1 October 2015[1], the European Commission committed to modernising the catch certificate (CC) scheme established under the EU’s 2010 Regulation on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing[2]. The CC scheme requires all imports of seafood products into the EU to be […]
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25 Jan
2017
2017
Source: La Voz de Galicia Author: María Jesús Fuente Defiende mayor transparencia en los acuerdos con otros países como China y Rusia.
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24 Jan
2017
2017
Source & Author: Fisheries A new study for the European Commission compiles data and information on fisheries subsidies within six of the world’s major fishing countries: Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, China, Russia and the United States.
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20 Jan
2017
2017
Source: Oceana Europe MEP Linnéa Engström, Vice-Chair of the Fisheries Committee and Rapporteur on European External Fishing Fleet, urges MEPs to vote for robust and ambitious reform of the Regulation governing the EU’s large external fishing fleet in Plenary, on February 2nd. In particular, Engström highlights the need to support a public database of authorised vessels, and […]
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