Source: FOCUS TAIWAN Authors: Yang Shu-min and Elizabeth Hsu Taipei, March 24 (CNA) The Council of Agriculture (COA) slapped a fine of NT$1.2 million (US$39,000) Friday on a fishing boat registered in Donggang, Pingtung County in southeastern Taiwan, for illegally operating in the exclusive economic zone of the Philippines.
Read MoreSource: National Geographic Society Author: Ian Urbina In the world of policing illegal fishing, success stories are hard to come by. The recent arrest of The Greko 1 and Greko 2 was one such rare case. I went to Mombasa, Kenya to take a look and, in a small way, to get involved with the […]
Read MoreSource & Author: EFCA The European Border and Coast Guard Agency (Frontex), the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) and the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA) took a significant step in structuring their cooperation on coast guard functions by signing a Tripartite Working Arrangement as foreseen by the amended founding regulations of the three Agencies of […]
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource.com Author: Jason Holland Despite the sheer scale of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing – an annual global worth of up to USD 20 billion (EUR 18.5 billion) and involving as much as 25 million metric tons (MT) of wild-caught seafood products – simply finding any vessels serially involved in IUU activities, let […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing The 10th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing has taken place at Chatham House, London. In the opening address HE Said Jama, Deputy Minister of Fisheries and Marine Resources, Somalia explained the great strides Somalia has made in recent years to protect against illegal fishing, but also […]
Read MoreSource: Horizon Magazine.EU Author: Steve Gillman General fish labels like snapper, sole and seabream take away the power to accurately assess stocks and then distort fishing quotas, but by identifying individual species we could prevent illegal catches ending up on our plates.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Maritime Executive On March 13, the Nigerian-flagged fishing vessel Star Shrimper XXV was boarded in waters belonging to the West African state of Liberia by the Liberian Coast Guard, assisted by Sea Shepherd crew and Israeli maritime advisors and conservationists.
Read MoreSource & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing A new publication from FISH-i Africa, ‘Illegal Fishing? Evidence and Analysis’ examines 15 FISH-i investigations and demonstrates the scope of illegal fishing, fisheries violations and associated illegalities and crimes that are taking place in the Western Indian Ocean.
Read MoreSource: RadioNZ Author: Koroi Hawkins Seven vessels are facing charges of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing after a ten day Pacific surveillance operation which ended on Friday.
Read MoreSource & Author: Francisco Blaha I wrote many times before about the EU IUU Regulation (EC No 1005/2008), the Catch Certification Scheme (CCS) and yellow and red cards the EU has been delivering around. My 1st contact with this regulation was when 2008, 2 years before its entry into force, and since then I been working with it at various levels.
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