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15 Oct
2017

Source: Focus Taiwan Author: S. M. Yang and Joseph Yeh The Fisheries Agency said Sunday it is confident that the European Commission will soon lift its “yellow card” against Taiwan, which was issued in 2015 as a warning that the country was at risk of being identified as uncooperative in the fight against illegal fishing.

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13 Oct
2017

Source: EU Reporter Author: Martin Banks The stark statistics speak for themselves. At current rates of consumption, plastic debris will most likely outnumber fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. More than 90% of fish stocks in the Mediterranean are over-exploited and the amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere […]

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12 Oct
2017

Source & Author: Undercurrent News With Vietnam already wary over the possibility of an EU “yellow card” due to its lack of action in fighting illegal fishing, now the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has warned it to up its game, reports Vietnam News.

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9 Oct
2017

Source: SeafoodSource Author: Chris Loew World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Japan released a report in September examining the likelihood that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) seafood products will enter the Japanese market, and presenting recommendations to keep these products out.

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9 Oct
2017

Source: Science Direct Author: Ifesinachi Okafor-Yarwood Highlights: •IUU fishing highlights the loophole in the fisheries management systems of countries in the Gulf of Guinea. •The threat amounts to 65% of the legal reported catch in the Gulf of Guinea. •It undermines marine conservation efforts, and so is a threat to the SDGs. •Regional cooperation as a possible […]

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7 Oct
2017

Source & Author: Marine Executive Public and private actors from 112 countries around the world made commitments worth over $7 billion (€6 billion) to tackle global oceans challenges at the Our Ocean Conference 2017 held in Malta on October 5-6.

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