Source: Stop Illegal Fishing Illegal fishers will find it increasingly difficult to get their catch to market, as Kenya becomes the 51st country to become party to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA). This international treaty is designed to end illegal fishing by tightening controls exerted on fishing vessels as they access port services.
Read MoreSource: Awoko The United Nations on 6 October 2017 called for strengthening the fight against illegal fishing, the United Nations food security agency has urged all countries to join a landmark global treaty that aims to rid the world of the multibillion-dollar scourge.
Read MoreSource: Science Direct Author: Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood Highlights: •IUU fishing highlights the loophole in the fisheries management systems of countries in the Gulf of Guinea. •The threat amounts to 65% of the legal reported catch in the Gulf of Guinea. •It undermines marine conservation efforts, and so is a threat to the SDGs. •Regional cooperation as a possible […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Journal du Cameroun Thirteen Senegalese fishermen were Friday expelled from Mauritania for illegal fishing, a source said on Saturday in Nouakchott.The 13 were arrested in Nouadhibou, the economic capital, over the last few days, while fishing without any permit, the source said.
Read MoreSource & Author: Jamaica Observer Fisheries and Aquaculture ministers from the African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries have agreed on measures aimed at accelerating the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing as well as address the issue of fisheries subsidies at the World Trade Organisation (WTO).
Read MoreSource & Author: ANTARA News The Ghanaian government has declared a “red alert” in all forms of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing methods in Ghana, by an executive fiat.
Read MoreSource & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing A new report from Stop Illegal Fishing takes a look at the work of the FISH-i Africa Task Force and focuses attention on the actions and cooperation that are still needed to tackle illegal fishing in the Western Indian Ocean.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Market Mogul Normally, it’s Chinese fishermen that make the headlines, as they sail farther and farther to trawl foreign waters after having depleted the seas closer to home. With its growing middle class hungry for seafood, China is certainly having the biggest impact on the world’s oceans – above all, off […]
Read MoreSource: The Bahamas Weekly Author: Betty Vedrine The fisheries sector is ‘crucial’ — underpinning food security, nutritional requirements and livelihoods of many African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, particularly Small Island Developing States. Secretary General of the ACP Group of Countries Dr. Patrick Gomes highlighted this fact at the 5th ACP Ministers in Charge of Fishing […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing Joint training on vessel bridge inspections and information cross-referencing, held in support of the FCWC West Africa Task Force, took place in Accra and Tema, Ghana, on the 11th to 15th September 2017.
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