Source: Virgin Unite Author: Steve Trent For over 15 years the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has worked to expose and resolve environmental destruction and associated human rights abuses.
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19 Aug
2016
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Andrew Carryer
2 Aug
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2016
Source & Author: NOAA Fisheries NOAA Fisheries published a final rule establishing regulations to integrate the collection of trade documentation within the International Trade Data System, and requiring electronic information through a single automated portal. The effective date for implementation is September 20, 2016.
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25 Jul
2016
2016
Source & Author: WWF NGOs urge significant improvements to EU system to prevent illegal fish imports from entering the market Detailed recommendations for how the European Union (EU) can eliminate existing weaknesses in its system to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing were published today by WWF and partner NGOs*.
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21 Jul
2016
2016
Source & Author: The Pew Charitable Trust At panel, leaders highlight their role in EU carding system targeting illicit trade The European Union has made preventing illegally caught seafood from entering its market a priority for its international diplomacy, and many players in the seafood industry have engaged in the global effort. Industry representatives recently […]
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8 Jul
2016
2016
Source & Author: BBC Chinese fishing vessels operate illegally off the coast of Guinea, depleting its fish population and destroying marine life. Despite the economic and social consequences of illegal fishing, the Guinean government has failed to police its waters because it doesn’t have money to operate surveillance equipment, as the BBC’s Tamasin Ford reports.
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30 Jun
2016
2016
Source & Author: WhoFishesFar.org One of the priorities of the European Union (EU)’s reformed Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is to ensure sustainable fisheries both in European waters and on a global scale. The EU has in the past decade introduced new, tighter laws to achieve legal and sustainable world fisheries at a time of mounting […]
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30 Jun
2016
2016
Source & Author: WhoFishesFar.org The legal framework governing the activities of the European external fishing fleet is a crucial part of the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. This regulation is currently being revised.
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23 Jun
2016
2016
Source & Author: The Pew Charitable Trusts Problems include gaps in national laws, poor conservation, lax vessel oversight, and failure to cooperate with fisheries managers
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18 Jun
2016
2016
Source & Author: House of Ocean Who Fishes Far recently announced the availability of new information through their pioneering database, which represents an unprecedented achievement in affording visibility to information that is rarely accessible to the public.
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10 Jun
2016
2016
Why whofishesfar.org accounts for far more vessels than the EU long distance fleet
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