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1 Dec
2021

Source: Environmental Justice Foundation In 2022, the European Commission intends to release its legislative proposal for a Sustainable Corporate Governance Directive on mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence. The Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana, The Nature Conservancy and WWF strongly encourage the EU to deliver a robust and world-leading Sustainable Corporate Governance framework. Click here […]

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18 Nov
2021

Source: Institute for Security Studies The United Nations Climate Change Conference’s (COP26) inclusion of the necessity for healthy oceans was welcome news. However, despite some notable calls for action before and during the event, insufficient emphasis was placed on the importance of conserving fish, fisheries and marine ecosystems.

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12 Nov
2021

Source: The Seattle Times A foreign takeover on land would garner immediate attention and outcry, but we should be just as alarmed by the national security threats that repeatedly take place out of sight on our oceans — threats to maritime boundaries, national waters and global marine resources. What happens beyond the horizon can be […]

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12 Nov
2021

Source: SeafoodSource African countries battling illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU) should embrace tighter port-control procedures to deny the illicit catch a market and cut off perpetrators from their profits, according to nonprofit Trygg Mat Tracking. Trygg Mat Tracking Executive Director Duncan Copeland said port authorities should have capacity to “make rapid risk assessments to […]

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10 Nov
2021

Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts Tuna fisheries in the Atlantic Ocean provide food, income and employment for communities in more than 50 countries on five continents. Managing these fisheries—which are worth billions of dollars each year—falls to the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), which has numerous opportunities to act against illegal […]

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