Source & Author: House of Ocean Council Regulation 1005 / 2008 (the IUU Regulation) is a European Union (EU) legislative tool designed to reinforce and support pre-existing normative measures established by the international community to control illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Read MoreSource: The IUU Fishing Blog Author: House of the Ocean Nobody can tackle IUU fishing alone: Will opportunities for global leadership be grasped?
Read MoreSource: EurActiv Author: Eszter Hidas The EU not only has a great responsibility to demonstrate legal and sustainable seafood supply chains to its consumers. It must ensure that its access to abundant seafood does not rob more vulnerable communities, of their own, writes Eszter Hidas.
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Author: Arthur Nelsen World’s third-largest seafood exporter given six months to clean up its industry where ‘illegal fishing is almost totally allowed’
Read MoreSource: EJF Author: EJF, OCEANA, Pew, WWF Today, the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and WWF welcomed the European Commission’s warning, or ‘yellow-carding’, of Thailand for not fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Read MoreSource: Korea Herald Author: Lee Jae-min One sticky issue that has haunted Korea for the past two years is now being put to rest. Almost simultaneously, Washington and Brussels are scratching off Korea from the list of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing countries.
Read MoreSource: The IUU Fishing Blog Author: House of the Ocean On 17th June 2014, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum in which some initial measures to combat illegal and unregulated fishing were established.
Read MoreSource: The Salt Lake Tribune Author: Lorne Cook (AP) The European Union blacklisted Sri Lanka Monday for failing to combat illegal fishing, officially banning imports of fisheries products from Sri Lanka-flagged vessels into the EU.
Read MoreSource: The IUU Fishing Blog Author: House of the Ocean The IUU Fishing Blog ends the year sharing the good news that the IUU fishing vessel Thunder has been sighted and may be close to being apprehended.
Read MoreSource: Phys Org Author: WWF Illegally caught fish comprise a significant portion of both the global catch and of seafood imports, including to the world’s leading fish-consuming markets. To counter this, the EU enacted strong fisheries laws and in 2012 began issuing warnings to – and imposing sanctions on – states which are accused of […]
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