Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts Author: Julie Janovsky Up to $23.5 billion worth of seafood is stolen from the sea each year. That’s 1 in 5 fish sold. This pillaging of the world’s oceans threatens fish stocks, undercuts law-abiding fishers, and harms the economies of coastal communities.
Read MoreSource: FFT.ie The Sea-Fisheries Protection Authority (SFPA), the independent state agency responsible for the regulation of the sea-fisheries and the seafood production sectors, co-hosted a workshop with the European Fisheries Control Agency (EFCA) in Dublin recently as part of EFCA’s efforts to prevent illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
Read MoreAuthor: Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) Experts in EU and WTO law have concluded that introducing compulsory identifying numbers for non-EU fishing vessels exporting seafood to the EU is compatible with World Trade Organisation (WTO) rules. In light of this, environmental organisations are calling for the European Commission to reconsider their approach.
Read MoreSource: Undercurrent News Thailand’s Department of Fisheries says it is making progress in getting its seafood products off the European Union Commission’s illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing watchlist, the Bangkok Post reports.
Read MoreSource: franciscoblaha.info Author: Francisco Blaha In January this year, I wrote in a blog entry (and on an SPC article): “If a country does not control its fleets, then its products should be subjected to higher tariffs until this issue is solved. Add to this a European Union ‘yellow card’ – which uses the potential […]
Read MoreSource: Undercurrent News The Global Aquaculture Alliance (GAA) and the Marine Ingredients Organization (IFFO) believe educating Asia consumers can be the most effective way of ending illegal fishing.
Read MoreSource & Author: Undercurrent News With Vietnam already wary over the possibility of an EU “yellow card” due to its lack of action in fighting illegal fishing, now the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has warned it to up its game, reports Vietnam News.
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource Author: Chris Loew World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Japan released a report in September examining the likelihood that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) seafood products will enter the Japanese market, and presenting recommendations to keep these products out.
Read MoreSource: Science Direct Author: Henrik Christiansen, Nicolas Fournier, Bart Hellemans, Filip A.M. Volckaert. Highlights: •280 samples of fish dishes were collected in Brussels and molecularly tested. •Mislabeling was present in cod (13.1%), sole (11.1%) and bluefin tuna (95.0%). •Bluefin tuna was substituted mostly by other tuna species. •The overall mislabeling rate was 31.1% and 38.1% in EU canteens.
Read MoreSource: Daily Comet Author: Dan Boudreaux A new regulatory program that will go into effect next year would require seafood to be labeled with its country of origin.
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