Source & Author: The Star Online Partnership is one of the cornerstones for successfully implementing the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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9 Aug
2017
2017
Global
9 Aug
2017
2017
Source: New Security Beat Author: Namita Rao Organized crime, arms and drugs smuggling, and conflict often overlap with environmental crimes like illegal fishing.
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3 Aug
2017
2017
Source: GreenBiz Author: Danielle Beurteaux Inexpensive seafood can come at a high price.
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28 Jul
2017
2017
Source: Pew Trust Magazine Author: Anne Usher Pew helped Interpol create a network for sharing information among nations fighting illegal fishing—and halted a ship’s infamous career.
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20 Jul
2017
2017
Source: Civil Eats Author: Danielle Beurteaux New science can track transhipping, the high-seas transfer of seafood catches between ships, but it may take consumer demand to truly halt it.
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20 Jul
2017
2017
Source & Author: ICTSD Negotiators have been examining an influx of new and updated proposals to establish WTO disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies over the past week, as they prepare to enter the next stage of talks for a potential deal at the organisation’s ministerial conference in Buenos Aires, Argentina, later this year.
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20 Jul
2017
2017
Source: ICTSD Author: Carl-Christian Schmidt Negotiations at the World Trade Organization to establish disciplines on harmful fisheries subsidies have been reinvigorated in 2017 and include several proposals to discipline subsidies related to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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18 Jul
2017
2017
Source: OceanMind Author: Nick Wise Machine learning is helping OceanMind revolutionise the function of its fisheries analysts thanks to some significant growth in technical capability. Encompassing a highly sophisticated system that performs in-depth computational analysis, OceanMind can automatically analyse maritime information from a wide variety of sources.
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18 Jul
2017
2017
Source: UPI.com Author: Paul Tullis Hundreds of thousands of fishing vessels. Millions of square miles of ocean. Billions of radio transmissions. The constant stream of data can overwhelm even the most dedicated fisheries managers trying to combat the $23 billion illegal fishing industry.
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18 Jul
2017
2017
Source: RUSI Author: Cathy Haenlein This paper argues that large-scale illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing takes place on an organised, systematic scale across multiple jurisdictions, and must therefore be recognised as transnational organised crime. Such IUU fishing endangers food security, threatens livelihoods, undermines the rule of law and deprives states of revenues. It also […]
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