Source: Daily Comet Author: Dan Boudreaux A new regulatory program that will go into effect next year would require seafood to be labeled with its country of origin.
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4 Sep
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Andrew Carryer
4 Sep
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Source & Author: Port News IMO says, fishing continues to be considered the most hazardous occupation in the world, and despite the improvement in technology, the loss of life in the fisheries sector is unacceptably high.
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3 Sep
2017
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Source: The Guardian Nigeria Newspaper Author: Kolawole Talabi and Authur Debruyne The flowery legalese of any Fishing Partnership Agreement always appears to secure the sustainability of the domestic fisheries involved but really this economic document is Brussels’ strategy for plundering the abundant undersea resources of Africa’s maritime states. From Sao Tomé to Sierra Leone, evidence abounds […]
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1 Sep
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Source & Author: Baird Maritime Australia and Vietnam will increase the level of cooperation between the two countries in an effort to combat illegal fishing in the Asia Pacific region.
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31 Aug
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Source: ICTSD Author: Carl-Christian Schmidt Eliminating subsidies that contribute to illegal fishing activities, formulating enforceable WTO rules, and using a well-established forum for informed discussions among flag, coastal and subsidising states could prove a novel and useful addition to the toolbox of measures to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
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29 Aug
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Source: Undercurrent News Author: Tom Seaman A US judge has ruled against a lawsuit from the National Fisheries Institute (NFI), two trade groups and several large seafood players, which opposes a traceability rule, dubbed the “Seafood Import Monitoring Program”, or SIMP.
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29 Aug
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Source: The Nation Nigeria Author: Precious Igbonwelundu Operatives of the Nigerian Navy (NN) have arrested four trawlers belonging to a Chinese Company and 79 suspects for Illegal and Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing.
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29 Aug
2017
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Source & Author: Oceana New Rule Will Reduce Amount of Illegally Caught and Mislabeled Seafood Entering U.S.
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28 Aug
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Source & Author: Reuters An Ecuadorean judge has jailed 20 Chinese fishermen for up to four years for illegally fishing off the Galapagos Islands, where they were caught with 6,600 sharks.
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28 Aug
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Source & Author: FIS.com Through its General Directorate of Supervision, Inspection and Sanction, the Ministry of Production (PRODUCE) has been coordinating joint actions with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) in order to adopt measures to help curb illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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