seafood imports

19 Mar
2021

U.S. imported $2.4 billion in illegally fished seafood in 2019, U.S. agency says

Source: Reuters WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States imported $2.4 billion worth of seafood from illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in 2019, representing 11% of total U.S. imports, the U.S. International Trade Commission said in a report released on Thursday. Read more

16 Mar
2021

Joint statement by international and East Asian NGOs Welcoming Japan’s Anti-IUU fishery Law

Source: Anti IUU Forum Japan On March 16th, international NGOs and East Asia based NGOs issued a joint statement welcoming the “Act on Ensuring the Proper Domestic Distribution and Importation of Specified Aquatic animals and plants” enacted at the end of last year in Japan. The law was enacted to eliminate IUU (illegal, unreported, unregulated) […]

5 Mar
2021

ClientEarth: EU must go digital to crack down on illegal fishing

Source: SeafoodSource New research published by environmental law charity ClientEarth calls on European Union countries to urgently implement an online, union-wide system to track and prevent billions of dollars of illegally-caught fish from entering the market every year. Read more

16 Feb
2021

The seafood sector and governments must join forces to combat illegal fishing

Source: World Economic Forum Author: Jim Leape Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is putting fish stocks, human rights and marine ecosystems in peril. Defeating IUU fishing can only be achieved if industry and governments join forces to ensure IUU fishers cannot find buyers or land their catch. Seafood sector leaders have set out a […]

27 Jan
2021

Sea to plate: how the EU is stopping any fishy business in our oceans

Source: Euronews In partnership with the European Commission On a fine winter day in the Vigo estuary in Galicia, Spain, José Manuel Sotelo Durán, a local fisherman, will spend most of his time on a fishing boat with his coworkers. He’s doing the job his grandfather and father taught him, his hard-earned fishing knowledge comes […]

26 Aug
2020

UK Seafood Industry Alliance endorses GDST 1.0 global traceability standards

Source: SeafoodSource The U.K. Seafood Industry Alliance (UK SIA) is the latest major industry stakeholder to endorse the new traceability standards published by the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST) in March of this year. Read more

29 May
2020

OPAGAC calls for EU to scrutinize seafood imports from China

Source: SeafoodSource The Organization of Associated Producers of Large Freezer Tuna Vessels (OPAGAC), a Spain-based association of nine operators of 47 tuna purse-seiners fishing in the Atlantic, Indian, and Pacific oceans, has called upon the European Union to revise its criteria for allowing seafood imports from China. Read more