Source: ScienceDirect Author: Mercedes Rosello Highlights: •Commission must underpin implementing decisions with legal rationale. •Unregulated fishing and UNFSA Article 8.4 customary status not suitable. •State practice in RFMOs and arrangements should provide such rationale. •Due regard underpins such rationale. •Due regard insufficient to ensure conservation by itself.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Nation Thailand is preparing information and statistics regarding its efforts to suppress illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing ahead of a visit by European Union officials from July 1 to 16.
Read MoreSource & Author: Francisco Blaha Since a couple of weeks ago, Kiribati became the 4th country in the Pacific to be included in the list of third countries and territories from which imports of certain fishery products for human consumption are permitted. This does not mean that from now on fish caught by any Kiribati-flagged vessels […]
Read MoreSource: Sierro Leone News Author: Ophaniel Gooding Despite government’s efforts and donor funding, illegal fishing accounts for about 30% of catches by industrial foreign fleets in Sierra Leone, says a new study published in Marine Policy, an academic journal published by Elsevier, in the U.K.
Read MoreSource: Environmental Justice Foundation Author: EJF Staff Responding to a recent article in the Phuket Gazette entitled “Thailand receives ranking upgrade combating IUU fishing” the Environmental Justice Foundation warns the Royal Thai Government still has a long-way to go to ensure the long-term sustainability of its fisheries.
Read MoreSource: Front Page Africa Author: Lennart Dodoo Liberia has been sternly warned by the European Union to tighten its screws against illegal fishing, being the world’s second biggest ship registry in the world with over 100 fishing vessels registered under its flag.
Read MoreSource & Author: European Commission Saint Vincent and the Grenadines and the Comoros have been identified as non-cooperating third countries under the EU’s regulation to fight and deter illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, while Liberia has been pre-identified.
Read MoreSource & Author: Bangkok Post Working conditions on fishing boats fall through the crackdown net.
Read MoreSource & Author: FIS A study on the socio-economic and environmental benefits of the Tuna Fisheries Improvement Project in the Philippines reveals that the changes driven by the European market towards sustainable development are having a large positive impact on developing countries.
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource Author: Cliff White The Seafood Exporters Association of Sri Lanka and the country’s Ministry of Fisheries jointly announced the creation of a fisheries improvement project (FIP) for its tuna and billfish fisheries last week at the 2017 Seafood Expo Global.
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