Source: The Jakarta Post Author: Fedina S. Sundaryani Twenty-one nations bordering the Indian Ocean, comprising African, Asian and Oceanic states as part of an international organization, now have guidelines for maritime safety and security and five other priorities.
Read MoreSource & Author: EJF EJF’s Executive Director Steve Trent met with Thailand’s Deputy Prime Minister General Prawit Wongsuwan to discuss the reforms by the Royal Thai Government (RTG) to address IUU fishing and associated human trafficking and labour abuse.
Read MoreSource: The Phnom Penh Post Author: Kali Kotoski The days of cocaine smuggling, illegal fishing and human trafficking using ships bearing the Cambodian flag appear to have come to an end as government officials claim that, as of today, all foreign-owned ships operating through Cambodia’s “flag of convenience” scheme must be stripped of their designation, and […]
Read MoreSource: Times Author: Charlie Campbell New data from environmental groups indicates that Chinese fishing ships are disguising their true location, employing destructive fishing techniques and flouting the territorial boundaries of sovereign nations.
Read MoreSource: 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.
Read MoreSource & 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.
Read MoreSource & 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.
Read MoreSource: 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.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Economist Why do Chinese fishermen keep getting arrested? AS A deterrent it is wasteful, polluting and provocative. But it is also, Indonesia’s government insists, highly effective. On April 5th the country’s maritime-affairs minister, Susi Pudjiastuti, watched live feed from seven different places as 23 Malaysian and Vietnamese trawlers, seized for illegal […]
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource.com Author: Madelyn Kearns, Associate Editor Border Force officials in Australia apprehended a pair of Vietnamese fishing vessels suspected of operating illegally in the waters off the coast of Cairns.
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