Source: Pasifik Author: Island Business/PACNEWS The Pacific Islands’ fight against illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing has gone up another notch with the successful completion of a five-day training in Fiji of fisheries officers of 10 island nations.
Read MoreSource and Author: UN News Centre Condemning illegal fishing and labour exploitation in the world’s oceans, the United Nations agriculture and labour agencies, joining forces with the Vatican, underlined today the need for collective, global action to end labour and human rights abuse along the entire fisheries value chain.
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Author: Mary Catherine O’Connor Facial recognition software is most commonly known as a tool to help police identify a suspected criminal by using machine learning algorithms to analyze his or her face against a database of thousands or millions of other faces. The larger the database, with a greater variety of facial features, the […]
Read MoreSource & Author: FIS The non-government organisation The Nature Conservancy calls for data scientists to join a technology challenge intended to transform Pacific tuna fisheries and ensure a sustainable seafood supply for generations.
Read MoreSource & Author: FIS The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) this week presented a cooperation project to support eleven Latin American and Caribbean countries to put an end to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
Read MoreSource: AllAfrica Author: Premium Partner The African Development Bank’s African Natural Resources Center (ANRC) and the Fisheries Committee for the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC) jointly organized a workshop on “Combatting illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing in West Africa.”
Read MoreSource & Author: FAO Gap analysis of inconsistencies in standards and norms
Read MoreSource: The Guardian Author: Charles Clover The UN has pledged to ensure healthy, productive oceans – but how can this be achieved when demand for fish has never been higher
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource.com Author: Nicki Holmyard Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing is widely acknowledged to be one of the fundamental issues preventing governments and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) from achieving sustainable fisheries.
Read MoreSource: Huffington Post Author: Peter Eigen The fishing communities dotted along Africa’s often inhospitable coastline have overcome many challenges before. But they now face some of their most difficult challenges ever.
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