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Source: The Yucatan Times Dark fleets – illegal fishing vessels which deactivate their tracking devices in order to fish in protected areas – are now being exposed by advances in satellite monitoring technologies.

Source: SeafoodSource European Commission inspectors will hold a virtual meeting with officials of Vietnam’s General Department of Fisheries to discuss the country’s issues with illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing on 27 October

Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing hinders sustainability of the ocean’s valuable fish, costing billions of dollars in economic losses each year—to governments, coastal communities and law-abiding fishers—and taking an extreme toll on the marine environment. Although advancements in satellite tracking of ships and legal requirements for vessel identification have […]

Source: Mongabay Onshore owners of global fishing vessels have benefited from the illegal activities their crews practice, yet remain largely untouched by law enforcement. In the last decade, a growing number of international NGOs have worked in parallel to map out and highlight the onshore networks that fund and benefit from illegal fishing vessels around […]

Source: NRDC The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) recent report—Improving International Fisheries Management: 2021 Report to Congress—promotes accountability for illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing by naming nations whose fleets engage in these harmful practices. While the report lays important groundwork, much more needs to be done to ensure that those responsible for illegal fishing […]

Source: Environmental Justice Foundation A toolkit which supports seafood companies to source seafood free of illegal fishing or human rights abuses is now freely available. The PAS_1550 code of practice is now accompanied by a range of free implementation tools that help seafood companies of all sizes supply fish that is legal and ethical.

Source: Mongabay Indonesia’s fisheries ministry has pledged to target the ultimate beneficiaries of fisheries-related crimes in the country. The move comes in the wake of a court ruling that empowers ministry officials to act as investigators, including the authority to look into cases of money laundering. For a long time, the only people who faced […]

Source: Mongabay A report and video published by the Environmental Justice Foundation describes a range of human rights abuses experienced by fisheries crew members and official observers on board industrial vessels operating in Ghana’s waters. According to the report, most of these vessels are involved in illegal fishing practices, including the use of undersized nets, […]

Source: European Council on Foreign Relations The fisheries sector has become a central geopolitical issue in the Indo-Pacific. China is a major cause of the problems in the industry, thanks to the size of its fleet and the tonnage of its captures. China also contributes to the erosion of ocean governance through its participation in […]

Source: Mongabay For decades, fleets of industrial vessels from several nations have fished in Madagascar’s waters. Now China appears to have joined the fishing spree, sending at least 14 industrial longliner fishing vessels in the last several years, new evidence shows. Clues from official documents indicate that Madagascar’s government may have authorized these vessels to […]