Source: Anti IUU Forum Japan On March 16th, international NGOs and East Asia based NGOs issued a joint statement welcoming the “Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic animals and plants” enacted at the end of last year in Japan. The law was enacted to eliminate IUU (illegal, unreported, unregulated) […]
Read MoreSource: The Conversation Authors: Stefano Mariano and Marine Cusa How well do you know the fish you buy? Could you identify the species before it’s a fillet that you pick up in the supermarket aisle? If so, according to our new research, you’re actually more knowledgeable than most European consumers. Read more
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Guardian analysis of 44 studies finds nearly 40% of 9,000 products from restaurants, markets and fishmongers were mislabelled A Guardian Seascape analysis of 44 recent studies of more than 9,000 seafood samples from restaurants, fishmongers and supermarkets in more than 30 countries found that 36% were mislabelled, exposing seafood fraud on a […]
Read MoreSource: E&T Cargo ships from around the world are moving untracked in African waters, where the rise of a new fishing activity affects everything from local biodiversity to piracy. Read more
Read MoreSource: National Geographic StarKist, Bumble Bee, and Chicken of the Sea are facing claims that they’re misleading shoppers. Read more
Read MoreSource: The Hill Author: Beth Lowell Your seafood dinner should not support the pillaging of the oceans or human rights abuses. These illicit activities at sea can impact the economy, environment and human rights. Read more
Read MoreSource: Global News A new program involving Canadian company MDA, the Defence Department and DFO will use satellites to track so-called “dark vessels” engaged in illegal fishing. Read more
Read MoreSource: World Economic Forum Every year, governments around the world pump $22 billion of public money into efforts that encourage overfishing. SDG 14 has explicit target to eliminate such harmful fisheries subsidies by 2020 through the conclusion of WTO negotiations that began 20 years ago. Under its new Director General, the WTO is within reach of a […]
Read MoreSource: Euronews Authors: EU Fisheries Control Coalition This week members of the European Parliament (MEPs) will take part in a vote that will prove crucial to the future of our seas, and the communities who depend on them. This vote is to amend the Fisheries Control Regulation, the EU’s system for monitoring, inspection, and enforcement […]
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource New research published by environmental law charity ClientEarth calls on European Union countries to urgently implement an online, union-wide system to track and prevent billions of dollars of illegally-caught fish from entering the market every year. Read more
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