Month: February 2022

25 Feb
2022

Source: SeaFoodSource Drew Lawler is the managing director at AJ Lawler Advisors and the former deputy assistant secretary for NOAA International Fisheries. While the term “Wild West” may conjure up images of outlaws acting with impunity in faraway outposts, it’s an apt metaphor for what’s taking place on the high seas just outside our 200-mile […]

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21 Feb
2022

Source: SeaFoodSource Morocco Prime Minister Aziz Akhannouch said the country hass committed to expanding the country’s marine protected areas and doubling the resources the country currently expends annually in its fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

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17 Feb
2022

Source: GhanaWeb Ghana’s fisheries sector is in anticipation to benefit from a EU-level Sustainable Corporate Governance directive that seeks to tackle the negative impacts from EU consumption of fish caught through illegal activities across the globe.

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14 Feb
2022

Source: Business Ghana President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said Ghana is implementing a National Plan of Action to curb the menace of illegal and unregulated fishing. He explained that components of the plan included fish catch certification, the reactivation and installation of vessel monitoring systems (VMS), automatic identification system (AIS) on vessels, port and […]

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11 Feb
2022

Source: Mongabay Launched in 2015, an enterprise known as the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI) is working to make fisheries more transparent and sustainable. The Seychelles joined FiTI in 2017 and recently released its second report to the initiative, which details its government’s efforts to increase public access to information about the management and direction of […]

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11 Feb
2022

Source: Forbes Illegal fishermen are more dangerous than pirates. You may have heard it here first, but the U.S. Coast Guard said so in 2020: illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing (IUU Fishing, or IUUF) is the No. 1 global maritime security threat. Hungry nations are exploiting others’ fishing stocks as overfishing has drastically depleted the […]

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