Source: House of Ocean Author: Mercedes Rosello The sustainable use and conservation of the oceans is an objective recognised in the United Nation’s Agenda for 2030, as part of an overarching commitment to protect the planet from destructive production and consumption patterns.[1] The Agenda for Sustainable Development is a declaration establishing 17 sustainable development goals […]
Read MoreSource: ESA Author: Dana Miller “Pirate” evokes images of legendary figures from the days of the great tall-masted sailing galleons, like Captain Henry Morgan, the famous 17th century “pirate of the Caribbean.” But piracy is still with us today, and modern pirates do not only steal from passing ships. They take from the common treasury of […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Oceana Oceana, SkyTruth and Google today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that allows anyone in the world free access to monitor and track the activities of the world’s largest commercial fishing vessels in near real-time.
Read MoreSource: Politico Author: Johan Bergenas At the State Department’s “Our Ocean” conference this week, environmentalists need to engage with the security community.
Read MoreSource: EcoWatch Author: Oceana Oceana released a new report Wednesday detailing the global scale of seafood fraud, finding that on average, one in five of more than 25,000 samples of seafood tested worldwide was mislabeled.
Read MoreSource & Author: House of Ocean Who Fishes Far recently announced the availability of new information through their pioneering database, which represents an unprecedented achievement in affording visibility to information that is rarely accessible to the public.
Read MoreSource & 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.
Read MoreSource: 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?
Read MoreSource & 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.
Read MoreSource: Mongabay Author: Alexandra Ossola Representatives of more than 80 nations met at UN headquarters in New York City to begin hashing out a new treaty to govern “the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity” on the international waters of the high seas.
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