Year: 2017

27 Sep
2017

Source & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing A new report from Stop Illegal Fishing takes a look at the work of the FISH-i Africa Task Force and focuses attention on the actions and cooperation that are still needed to tackle illegal fishing in the Western Indian Ocean.

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26 Sep
2017

Source & Author: Việt Nam News The VASEP (Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers) Marine Product Committee and Vietnamese seafood processors and exporters on September 25 promised to implement the EU’s demands on fighting IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the national action plan to combat IUU fishing.

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25 Sep
2017

Source: Manila Bulletin Author: Madelaine B. Miraflor While the country continuously lose money on the weight of illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, the Bureau of Fisheries and Aquatic Resources (BFAR) is claiming it needs more budget moving forward in order to upgrade its assets used for monitoring.

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25 Sep
2017

Source & Author: The Market Mogul Normally, it’s Chinese fishermen that make the headlines, as they sail farther and farther to trawl foreign waters after having depleted the seas closer to home. With its growing middle class hungry for seafood, China is certainly having the biggest impact on the world’s oceans – above all, off […]

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25 Sep
2017

Source & Author: Undercurrent News New technology and other improvements have been introduced in the Thai fishing fleet in an effort to get Thailand removed from the EU’s “watch list” for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, reports the Nation.

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21 Sep
2017

Source: The Bahamas Weekly Author: Betty Vedrine The fisheries sector is ‘crucial’ — underpinning food security, nutritional requirements and livelihoods of many African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, particularly Small Island Developing States.  Secretary General of the ACP Group of Countries Dr. Patrick Gomes highlighted this fact at the 5th ACP Ministers in Charge of Fishing […]

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