Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts Author: Julie Janovsky Up to $23.5 billion worth of seafood is stolen from the sea each year. That’s 1 in 5 fish sold. This pillaging of the world’s oceans threatens fish stocks, undercuts law-abiding fishers, and harms the economies of coastal communities.
Read MoreSource: News deeply An initiative called FISH-i Africa helps coordinate the efforts of eight cash-strapped countries to uncover and catch pirate fishing operators in the western Indian Ocean.
Read MoreSource: Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism Belize City, Wednesday, 25 October 2017 (CRFM)— Twenty border control officers from six Member States of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) completed a three-week training course in Fisheries Prosecution and Interdiction, organized by the Barbados-based Regional Security System (RSS) in collaboration with the CRFM Secretariat, the Government of Barbados […]
Read MoreSource: FIS.com Peru will take on the Technical Secretariat of the first Latin American and Caribbean network against illegal fishing thanks to the consensus of the countries involved: Costa Rica, Chile and Panama, and the initiative taken by the General Directorate of Supervision, Inspection and Sanction of the Vice Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture of […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Our Ocean 2017 In the last few decades, science has revealed the widespread deterioration of the marine environment and its resources, something long witnessed by coastal populations.
Read MoreSource & Author: UNCTAD With just 10 weeks until a World Trade Organization summit in Argentina, there is a risk that no global agreement will be made to address the issue of overfishing, an UNCTAD official has told a public meeting at the international body’s Geneva base.
Read MoreSource & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing A new report from Stop Illegal Fishing takes a look at the work of the FISH-i Africa Task Force and focuses attention on the actions and cooperation that are still needed to tackle illegal fishing in the Western Indian Ocean.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Market Mogul Normally, it’s Chinese fishermen that make the headlines, as they sail farther and farther to trawl foreign waters after having depleted the seas closer to home. With its growing middle class hungry for seafood, China is certainly having the biggest impact on the world’s oceans – above all, off […]
Read MoreSource: The Bahamas Weekly Author: Betty Vedrine The fisheries sector is ‘crucial’ — underpinning food security, nutritional requirements and livelihoods of many African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries, particularly Small Island Developing States. Secretary General of the ACP Group of Countries Dr. Patrick Gomes highlighted this fact at the 5th ACP Ministers in Charge of Fishing […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing Joint training on vessel bridge inspections and information cross-referencing, held in support of the FCWC West Africa Task Force, took place in Accra and Tema, Ghana, on the 11th to 15th September 2017.
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