Source: Marine Developments Author: Jake Turnbull Marine protected areas (MPAs) currently cover over 5% of the world’s ocean and are designed to protect and preserve various resources within their boundaries. This goes some way to meeting internationally agreed goals of 10% ocean protection by 2020, and 30% by 2030.
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: Awoko The United Nations on 6 October 2017 called for strengthening the fight against illegal fishing, the United Nations food security agency has urged all countries to join a landmark global treaty that aims to rid the world of the multibillion-dollar scourge.
Read MoreSource: The Pew Charitable Trusts Author: Julie Janovsky International standards on vessel safety would protect workers and reduce maritime crime.
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource As the Caribbean continues its fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing, fisheries officials agreed at a meeting last month to harmonize standards for marking authorized fishing vessels, as well as to establish a list of vessels involved in IUU fishing.
Read MoreSource: Focus Taiwan Author: S. M. Yang and Joseph Yeh The Fisheries Agency said Sunday it is confident that the European Commission will soon lift its “yellow card” against Taiwan, which was issued in 2015 as a warning that the country was at risk of being identified as uncooperative in the fight against illegal fishing.
Read MoreSource: FIS.com Peru will take on the Technical Secretariat of the first Latin American and Caribbean network against illegal fishing thanks to the consensus of the countries involved: Costa Rica, Chile and Panama, and the initiative taken by the General Directorate of Supervision, Inspection and Sanction of the Vice Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture of […]
Read MoreSource: EU Reporter Author: Martin Banks The stark statistics speak for themselves. At current rates of consumption, plastic debris will most likely outnumber fish in the world’s oceans by 2050. More than 90% of fish stocks in the Mediterranean are over-exploited and the amount of carbon dioxide that humans will have released into the atmosphere […]
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: Focus Taiwan Author: Tang Pei-chun and William Yen The European Union will soon send a team to Taiwan to evaluate the effectiveness of the country’s measures to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), an EU official told CNA Thursday.
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