Month: January 2017

31 Jan
2017

Source: CitizenSci Author: Adam Reyer Hundreds of millions of people depend on the ocean for their livelihoods, and almost 3 billion rely on it as a protein source. But countless threats — overfishing, destructive fishing practices, bycatch, dishonest catch reporting, habitat destruction — threaten our oceans and the people who depend on them.

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30 Jan
2017

Source & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing Recent measures introduced in Ghana are offering stronger means of fighting illegal fishing. New legislation, increased sanctions, improved monitoring, control and inspection capacity, and mandatory IMO numbers for the industrial fleet are all contributing to a more compliant sector.

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27 Jan
2017

Source & Author: Consilium On 26 January 2017 the Council, led by the Maltese presidency, reached a preliminary political agreement with the European Parliament on a draft regulation defining the specifications of fishing vessels.

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25 Jan
2017

Source: WWF Author: Victoria Mundy In a Communication to the European Parliament and Council dated 1 October 2015[1], the European Commission committed to modernising the catch certificate (CC) scheme established under the EU’s 2010 Regulation on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing[2]. The CC scheme requires all imports of seafood products into the EU to be […]

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20 Jan
2017

Source: Oceana Europe MEP Linnéa Engström, Vice-Chair of the Fisheries Committee and Rapporteur on European External Fishing Fleet, urges MEPs to vote for robust and ambitious reform of the Regulation governing the EU’s large external fishing fleet in Plenary, on February 2nd. In particular, Engström highlights the need to support a public database of authorised vessels, and […]

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