Source & Author: Stop Illegal Fishing In June 2016, Somalia attended their first FISH-i Africa Task Force meeting, in which they informed members that there was a fishing vessel named GREKO 1, flagged to Belize and claiming to be licensed to fish in the Somali exclusive economic zone (EEZ).
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource.com Author: Gao Fu Mao A shipment of Chinese squid has been impounded by authorities in Spain after being imported illegally, according to the EU’s Rapid Alert System for Food and Feed (RASFF).
Read MoreSource & Author: Europol Greek and Spanish authorities, supported by Europol and Eurojust, have dismantled an international criminal network suspected of having smuggled over 10 tonnes of eels from the EU to China
Read MoreSource: China Dialogue Author: Charlotte Middlehurst The unmonitored transfer of cargo on open water is a roadblock to transparency at sea, finds new research.
Read MoreSource & Author: Francisco Blaha Thailand has been going trough a rough patch with the EU for a while now, from the still outstanding issues from DG MARE’s “yellow card” in terms of IUU, now DG SANTE (Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety) recently published the results of an inspection that was carried out last year… and the […]
Read MoreSource: Völkerrechtsblog Author: Valentin J. Schatz The raison d’être of the concept of transnational ‘fisheries crime’ (TFC) (INTERPOL 2013) or ‘marine resource crime’ (UNODC 2011) can be traced to endemic illicit activities in the fisheries sector which, due to their devastating impacts, are increasingly considered as a serious problem worthy of attention as ‘criminal’ rather than merely […]
Read MoreSource & Author: World Trade Organization At a 1 March meeting of the WTO’s Negotiating Group on Rules (NGR), the chair, Ambassador Wayne McCook (Jamaica), reported on his recent consultations with WTO members on certain substantive and procedural questions in the ongoing talks on global disciplines for fisheries subsidies.
Read MoreSource & Author: Africa Times The Liberian government has partnered with an environmental group to launch a new effort at curbing illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing – and so far, they’ve made arrests on three poaching vehicles.
Read MoreSource & Author: Tribune de Genève La Suisse ne fera plus le commerce de poissons issus de pêche illicite, comme c’est le cas depuis sept ans en Union européenne.
Read MoreSource & Author: Asia Pacific Report News of the return to green card status for Solomon Islands tuna into the European Union market provides much-deserved cause for celebration, says the chief of the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA).
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