Source: Greenpeace International Vessels arrested for illegally fishing in West African waters are still carrying on with business as usual, said a Greenpeace Africa report released today on World Fisheries Day. The report, “The Cost of Ocean Destruction”, details how West African fishermen and communities continue to suffer from the consequences of overfishing and illegal […]
Read MoreSource: FIS.com Representatives from Colombia, Ecuador, Peru and Chile from the Permanent Commission of the South Pacific (CCPS) meet this week in Santiago to advance in a comprehensive regional protection, control and surveillance system.
Read MoreSource: Undercurrent News Author: Matilde Mereghetti Philippines senator Cynthia Villar warned that illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing risks to destroy the country’s tuna industry, as president Rodrigo Duterte is to press Chinese president Xi Jinping on a code of conduct for the sea.
Read MoreSource: The Pew Charitable Trusts Author: Julie Janovsky Up to $23.5 billion worth of seafood is stolen from the sea each year. That’s 1 in 5 fish sold. This pillaging of the world’s oceans threatens fish stocks, undercuts law-abiding fishers, and harms the economies of coastal communities.
Read MoreSource: News deeply An initiative called FISH-i Africa helps coordinate the efforts of eight cash-strapped countries to uncover and catch pirate fishing operators in the western Indian Ocean.
Read MoreSource: FFT.ie The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA), the independent state agency responsible for the regulation of the sea-fisheries and the seafood production sectors, co-hosted a workshop with the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) in Dublin recently as part of EFCA’s efforts to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Read MoreAuthor: Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) Experts in EU and WTO law have concluded that introducing compulsory identifying numbers for non-EU fishing vessels exporting seafood to the EU is compatible with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. In light of this, environmental organisations are calling for the European Commission to reconsider their approach.
Read MoreSource: Undercurrent News Thailand’s Department of Fisheries says it is making progress in getting its seafood products off the European Union Commission’s illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing watchlist, the Bangkok Post reports.
Read MoreSource: Reuters Author: Tom Miles China drew a blank among other major fishing nations on Wednesday with a WTO proposal to selectively ban subsidies for illegal fishing, as it resists pressure to curb its vast fleet.
Read MoreSource: Undercurrent News The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Processors (Vasep) is proposing forming a working group on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, to try and avoid a “red card” from the European Union (EU), reports Vietnam Nam Net.
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