Europe

26 Sep
2017

Source & Author: Việt Nam News The VASEP (Việt Nam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers) Marine Product Committee and Vietnamese seafood processors and exporters on September 25 promised to implement the EU’s demands on fighting IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing and the national action plan to combat IUU fishing.

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25 Sep
2017

Source & 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 […]

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25 Sep
2017

Source & Author: Undercurrent News New technology and other improvements have been introduced in the Thai fishing fleet in an effort to get Thailand removed from the EU’s “watch list” for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, reports the Nation.

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19 Sep
2017

Source & Author: Undercurrent News The Vietnam Association of Seafood Exporters and Producers (Vasep) has urged the country’s sector to step up its fight against illegal fishing, or risk receiving a yellow card warning from the EU, reports Vietnam Net.

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19 Sep
2017

Source & Author: The Marine Executive The Spanish National Court has ordered the payment of 700,000 Euros ($840,000) to a Chinese company in compensation for a cargo of illegally-caught Patagonian toothfish that was seized in Vietnam last year from a vessel owned by a Spanish fishing syndicate.

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5 Sep
2017

Source: Science Direct Author: Henrik Christiansen, Nicolas Fournier, Bart Hellemans, Filip A.M. Volckaert. Highlights: •280 samples of fish dishes were collected in Brussels and molecularly tested. •Mislabeling was present in cod (13.1%), sole (11.1%) and bluefin tuna (95.0%). •Bluefin tuna was substituted mostly by other tuna species. •The overall mislabeling rate was 31.1% and 38.1% in EU canteens.

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