Month: February 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 […]

Source: Environmental Justice Foundation A fleet of Chinese vessels which was previously caught fishing illegally in West Africa has been approved for trawling by the Malagasy authorities. Under Malagasy regulations, no vessel with a history of illegal fishing should be allowed to fish in the country’s waters unless there is proof of a change in […]

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.

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.

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 […]

Source: India Times Shark conservation is one of the most pressing global biodiversity concerns. Fishing has resulted in the extinction of several shark populations around the world. Shark exploitation has escalated dramatically in recent decades to meet rising demand for shark fins in Asian markets. Every year, between 27 and 73 million sharks are trafficked […]

Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts With 6 new ratifications promised, Cape Town Agreement may soon enter into force.

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 […]

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 […]

Source: The Global Fishing Watch Satellite radar imagery is lighting up our view of previously unseen fishing patterns around the world.