Source and Author: Environmental Justice Foundation “The captain shouted at me; saying that he could kill me, that he doesn’t care and that I am only Burmese.” Tun Thet Soe – escaped victim of trafficking.
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28 Nov
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Andrew Carryer
28 Nov
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Source: Oceana Author: Vanya Vulperhorst On December 5th, members of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament will have their only chance to vote this year to make a huge improvement to the way the European fishing vessels are regulated when fishing abroad. It is a vital opportunity to make sure that the EU’s fleet, […]
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27 Nov
2016
2016
Source & Author: Francisco Blaha In September I wrote about the public beta version of Global Fishing Watch (GFW) that is available to anyone with an Internet connection and allows users to monitor when and where commercial “apparent fishing activity” is occurring around the world.
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27 Nov
2016
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Source: Sunday Times Sri Lanka Author: Damith Wickremasekara In a fresh attempt to protect Sri Lanka’s fisheries resources, the Government is to impose thumping fines upto Rs. 175 million for foreign vessels poaching in Sri Lankan waters, a Cabinet minister said.
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25 Nov
2016
2016
Source & Author: NOAA Fisheries Countries from around the globe agreed to take more steps to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing at the 20th annual meeting of International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which recently concluded in Vilamoura, Portugal.
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25 Nov
2016
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Source & Author: EJF High-level officials from across Asia will gather at a conference in Seoul, Korea this month (29-30 Nov) in a strong move to boost action and collaboration to combat unsustainable and illegal fishing across the region.
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25 Nov
2016
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Source and Author: TEMPO.CO The Indonesia government continues its bilateral cooperation in marine and fisheries with the Dutch government by singing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Indonesian Marine and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti and Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen.
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24 Nov
2016
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Source & Author: EFJ The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) welcomes the news that the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 188 will come into force next year, providing a major boost to the fight against forced labour on fishing vessels across the world.
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23 Nov
2016
2016
Source: Pasifik Author: Island Business/PACNEWS The Pacific Islands’ fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing has gone up another notch with the successful completion of a five-day training in Fiji of fisheries officers of 10 island nations.
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21 Nov
2016
2016
Source and Author: UN News Centre Condemning illegal fishing and labour exploitation in the world’s oceans, the United Nations agriculture and labour agencies, joining forces with the Vatican, underlined today the need for collective, global action to end labour and human rights abuse along the entire fisheries value chain.
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