Source: Oceana Author: Vanya Vulperhorst On December 5th, members of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament will have their only chance to vote this year to make a huge improvement to the way the European fishing vessels are regulated when fishing abroad. It is a vital opportunity to make sure that the EU’s fleet, […]
Read MoreSource: Huffington Post Author: Peter Eigen The fishing communities dotted along Africa’s often inhospitable coastline have overcome many challenges before. But they now face some of their most difficult challenges ever.
Read MoreSource & Author: House of Ocean Who Fishes Far recently announced the availability of new information through their pioneering database, which represents an unprecedented achievement in affording visibility to information that is rarely accessible to the public.
Read MoreWhy whofishesfar.org accounts for far more vessels than the EU long distance fleet
Read MoreSource & Author: WhoFishesFar.org On 29 July 2015, Oceana and its partners (See Note) launched the Who Fishes Far database. This pioneering tool in fisheries transparency makes details of EU fishing vessels operating outside Union waters accessible to the public for the first time. Today, the details of more than 6,800 additional vessels have been […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Oceana As WhoFishesFar.org discloses vessels authorised to fish in non-EU waters since 2008, a lack of official data on those operating in Africa under private agreements raises alarm bells.
Read MoreSource: Undercurrent News Author: Neil Ramsden Speaking at the SeaWeb Seafood Summit in Malta, the heads of Europeche and Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) had suggestions for the EU on how it needs to up its anti-IUU [illegal, unregulated and unreported] game.
Read MoreSource & Author: EJF, Oceana, The Pew Charitable Trusts, WWF The European Commission proposes a renewed regulation today affecting over 15,000 EU fishing vessels operating outside the EU, in line with current legislation against illegal fishing and the reformed Common Fisheries Policy.
Read MoreSource: Oceana Author: Agata Mrowiec Recently Oceana, together with its NGO partner organisations, launched a new online database whofishesfar.orgshowcasing 15,264 EU vessels authorised to fish outside EU waters between 2010 and 2014.
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