Source: Stanford University, Center for Ocean Solutions Largely out of sight, criminals pillage the oceans. They steal millions of tons of fish each year. That is a huge economic loss to coastal nations, estimated to be somewhere in the tens of billions of dollars. It is an even larger threat to food security; a billion […]
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Ecuador stood up for the Galápagos, but other countries don’t stand a chance against the 17,000-strong distant-water fleet The recent discovery by the Ecuadorean navy of a vast fishing armada of 340 Chinese vessels just off the biodiverse Galápagos Islands stirred outrage both in Ecuador and overseas. Read more
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource The Lu Rong Yuan Yu 956, a Chinese vessel operated by Rongcheng Ocean Fishery Co. Ltd., has reportedly been re-licensed to fish in Ghana, in spite of failing to pay its fines. Read more
Read MoreSource: Reuters Ecuador says dozens of Chinese vessels have turned off tracking systems to prevent monitoring of their activities. Read more
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource The High-Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a consortium of ocean-dependent countries founded in 2018 to initiate action to improve global marine sustainability efforts, has issued a report detailing the threat that organized crime poses to the fisheries sector. Read more
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Fishing fleets are defying international ban, with deadly nets ensnaring dolphins, whales and other protected marine life Read more
Read MoreIntroduction In a matter of months, the COVID-19 pandemic has created a global public health crisis unprecedented in scale. It has fundamentally changed the lives and daily interactions of billions of people and has highlighted important questions about society’s relationship with the planet, our dependence on natural resources and the sustainability of current systems of […]
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource A new study has uncovered a massive illegal fishing operation conducted by Chinese fishing vessels in North Korean waters. Read more
Read MoreSource: EJF EU consumers are inadvertently supporting illegal practices and severe overfishing in Ghana’s waters, a new report by EJF has concluded. Industrial trawlers authorised to export to the EU have been linked to illegal foreign ownership and implicated in the use of prohibited nets, fishing in the exclusion zone reserved for small-scale canoe fishers, and the […]
Read MoreSource: EJF Six Chinese supertrawlers have arrived in Liberia, capable of taking over 12,000 tonnes of fish a year – nearly twice the nation’s sustainable catch. This has sparked outrage among canoe fishers, who fear for their jobs and food security. Liberia is now the third West African country to witness a sudden increase in […]
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