Source & Author: News24 The EU warned Thailand on Tuesday to take “swift and determined” action against illegal fishing, or risk a European ban on its fish exports.
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8 Jun
2016
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Andrew Carryer
1 Jun
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Source & Author: EU Commission A lot has changed since the EU declared “zero tolerance” on illegal fishing in January 2010. The world has become more aware of the importance of responsible fishing, and many countries have improved their fisheries management systems. Big market powers like the US, Japan and Canada have joined forces with […]
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1 Jun
2016
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Source: odi Author: Alfonso Daniels, Miren Gutierrez, Gonzalo Fanjul, Arantxa Guereña, Ishbel Matheson and Kevin Watkins Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is at the centre of a crisis of sustainability. Nowhere is that crisis more visible than in western Africa. Current rates of extraction are driving several species towards extinction while jeopardising the livelihoods of […]
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31 May
2016
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Source & Author: EJF On Sunday, the international Port State Measures Agreement will come into force following its ratification by 29 States and the European Union. The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) strongly welcomes the announcement, saying that stronger port controls are a critical step that helps take profit out of pirate fishing.
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30 May
2016
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Source & Author: WhoFishesFar.org On 29 July 2015, Oceana and its partners (See Note) launched the Who Fishes Far database. This pioneering tool in fisheries transparency makes details of EU fishing vessels operating outside Union waters accessible to the public for the first time. Today, the details of more than 6,800 additional vessels have been […]
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30 May
2016
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Source & Author: Oceana As WhoFishesFar.org discloses vessels authorised to fish in non-EU waters since 2008, a lack of official data on those operating in Africa under private agreements raises alarm bells.
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23 May
2016
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Source: Huffington Post Author: Maria Damanaki If you were to sit down to dinner with four friends and all order seafood, it is more than likely that at least one of you would be eating a stolen fish. That fish doesn’t taste so good anymore, does it?
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16 May
2016
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Source & Author: FAO FAO Port State Measures Agreement set to become binding law Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a ground-breaking international accord championed by FAO.
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16 May
2016
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Source: New Zealand Herald Author: Nicholas Jones Officials are sceptical of a study that claimed more than half of the fish caught in New Zealand waters do not show up in official records, Prime Minister John Key says.
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28 Apr
2016
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Source: Quartz Author: Steve Mollman Indonesia already makes good use of one weapon against the foreign boats that routinely fish illegally in its vast waters: explosives. To discourage the activity—which costs it billions of dollars in lost revenue annually—the archipelago nation has been on a boat-blasting binge in recent years.
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