Year: 2022

Source: SeaFoodSource Morocco Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch said the country hass committed to expanding the country’s marine protected areas and doubling the resources the country currently expends annually in its fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Source: GhanaWeb Ghana’s fisheries sector is in anticipation to benefit from a EU-level Sustainable Corporate Governance directive that seeks to tackle the negative impacts from EU consumption of fish caught through illegal activities across the globe.

Source: Business Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said Ghana is implementing a National Plan of Action to curb the menace of illegal and unregulated fishing. He explained that components of the plan included fish catch certification, the reactivation and installation of vessel monitoring systems (VMS), automatic identification system (AIS) on vessels, port and […]

Source: India Times Shark conservation is one of the most pressing global biodiversity concerns. Fishing has resulted in the extinction of several shark populations around the world. Shark exploitation has escalated dramatically in recent decades to meet rising demand for shark fins in Asian markets. Every year, between 27 and 73 million sharks are trafficked […]

Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts With 6 new ratifications promised, Cape Town Agreement may soon enter into force.

Source: Mongabay Launched in 2015, an enterprise known as the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) is working to make fisheries more transparent and sustainable. The Seychelles joined FiTI in 2017 and recently released its second report to the initiative, which details its government’s efforts to increase public access to information about the management and direction of […]

Source: Forbes Illegal fishermen are more dangerous than pirates. You may have heard it here first, but the U.S. Coast Guard said so in 2020: illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU Fishing, or IUUF) is the No. 1 global maritime security threat. Hungry nations are exploiting others’ fishing stocks as overfishing has drastically depleted the […]

Source: The Global Fishing Watch Satellite radar imagery is lighting up our view of previously unseen fishing patterns around the world.

Source: Industrias Pesqueras Las organizaciones recuerdan que las tres partes representan los principales mercados pesqueros del planeta, al concentrar el 55 % del mercado mundial de productos del mar.

Source: allAfrica Distant water fishing fleets operating along the Gulf of Guinea (West and Central Africa) are exploiting less-developed nations, depleting fish stocks, and affecting the livelihood of artisanal fishers, experts say.