Source & Author: Francisco Blaha Private sustainability endorsement may not always mean a lot (or even less legality). I think I been quite clear in the past on my views on eco-labels. I still believe that is better to support the responsible authorities in the Flag, Port and Coastal States than a private certification, which at the […]
Read MoreSource & Author: All Africa The European Union (EU) Ambassador in Ghana, H.E. William Hanna, has called for stronger collaborative efforts among stakeholders in the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Read MoreSource & Author: Europêche Mr Karmenu Vella, Commissioner for Environment, Maritime Affairs and Fisheries, met yesterday with a Europêche delegation representing the long distance fishing fleet in Europe.
Read MoreSource: allAfrica Author: Zephania Ubwani Illegal fishing is still rampant in the western Indian Ocean coast, occasioning a $ 400 million loss per year in landings or nearly $1 billion in processed products.
Read MoreSource: Civil Eats Author: Danielle Beurteaux New science can track transhipping, the high-seas transfer of seafood catches between ships, but it may take consumer demand to truly halt it.
Read MoreSource & Author: ICTSD Negotiators have been examining an influx of new and updated proposals to establish WTO disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies over the past week, as they prepare to enter the next stage of talks for a potential deal at the organisation’s ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, later this year.
Read MoreSource: ICTSD Author: Carl-Christian Schmidt Negotiations at the World Trade Organization to establish disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies have been reinvigorated in 2017 and include several proposals to discipline subsidies related to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Read MoreSource: OceanMind Author: Nick Wise Machine learning is helping OceanMind revolutionise the function of its fisheries analysts thanks to some significant growth in technical capability. Encompassing a highly sophisticated system that performs in-depth computational analysis, OceanMind can automatically analyse maritime information from a wide variety of sources.
Read MoreSource: UPI.com Author: Paul Tullis Hundreds of thousands of fishing vessels. Millions of square miles of ocean. Billions of radio transmissions. The constant stream of data can overwhelm even the most dedicated fisheries managers trying to combat the $23 billion illegal fishing industry.
Read MoreSource: RUSI Author: Cathy Haenlein This paper argues that large-scale illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing takes place on an organised, systematic scale across multiple jurisdictions, and must therefore be recognised as transnational organised crime. Such IUU fishing endangers food security, threatens livelihoods, undermines the rule of law and deprives states of revenues. It also […]
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