Source: Center for American Progress Authors: Trevor Sutton and Avery Siciliano Recent media investigations have revealed regular use of forced labor in the international seafood supply chain. Here’s how the U.S. government and the private sector should respond to curtail these abuses.
Read MoreSource: Impakter Authors: Annick Vanhoutte and Blaise Kuemlangan Despite the many efforts to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU-fishing) in areas under national jurisdiction and on the high seas, the scourge persists. Each year, IUU fishing is responsible for annual catches of up to 26 million tons, with a value of up to 23 billion USD which negatively affects […]
Read MoreSource: International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Author: Ussif Rashid Sumaila Fishing plays a crucial economic role in many human communities around the globe. How can trade-related policies contribute to the sustainable management of halieutic resources?
Read MoreSource & Author: Trade and Environment Review 2016 For the first time, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) have created a stand-alone charter that addresses the health of marine resources and ecosystems, with specific regard for fish.
Read MoreSource: Ship Technology Author: Eva Grey The international community is desperately trying to crack down on illegal fishing and is increasingly harnessing the power of big data to achieve this. Given the valuable insight that can be gained from a ship’s location and activities at sea, could the world’s shipping fleets act as floating data […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Francisco Blaha In September I wrote about the public beta version of Global Fishing Watch (GFW) that is available to anyone with an Internet connection and allows users to monitor when and where commercial “apparent fishing activity” is occurring around the world.
Read MoreSource & Author: NOAA Fisheries Countries from around the globe agreed to take more steps to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing at the 20th annual meeting of International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which recently concluded in Vilamoura, Portugal.
Read MoreSource & Author: EFJ The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) welcomes the news that the International Labour Organization (ILO) Convention 188 will come into force next year, providing a major boost to the fight against forced labour on fishing vessels across the world.
Read MoreSource and Author: UN News Centre Condemning illegal fishing and labour exploitation in the world’s oceans, the United Nations agriculture and labour agencies, joining forces with the Vatican, underlined today the need for collective, global action to end labour and human rights abuse along the entire fisheries value chain.
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Author: Mary Catherine O’Connor Facial recognition software is most commonly known as a tool to help police identify a suspected criminal by using machine learning algorithms to analyze his or her face against a database of thousands or millions of other faces. The larger the database, with a greater variety of facial features, the […]
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