Source: The Pew Charitable Trusts Author: Tony Long Panama now joins 36 other countries and the European Union in ratifying the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), an international treaty aimed at curbing illegal fishing. Each year, up to 26 million tons of fish are stolen from our seas. That translates into 1 in every 5 […]
Read MoreSource & Author: FIS Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) has issued a new advisory note for French industry, retailers and brands on the risks associated with illegal fishing.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Phuket News The Royal Thai Navy has seized seven of nine suspected illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) tuna fishing boats and charged three agents for presenting fake documents indicating the boats were registered in Bolivia.
Read MoreSource and Author: Environmental Justice Foundation “The captain shouted at me; saying that he could kill me, that he doesn’t care and that I am only Burmese.” Tun Thet Soe – escaped victim of trafficking.
Read MoreSource: Oceana Author: Vanya Vulperhorst On December 5th, members of the Fisheries Committee of the European Parliament will have their only chance to vote this year to make a huge improvement to the way the European fishing vessels are regulated when fishing abroad. It is a vital opportunity to make sure that the EU’s fleet, […]
Read MoreSource & Author: Francisco Blaha In September I wrote about the public beta version of Global Fishing Watch (GFW) that is available to anyone with an Internet connection and allows users to monitor when and where commercial “apparent fishing activity” is occurring around the world.
Read MoreSource: Sunday Times Sri Lanka Author: Damith Wickremasekara In a fresh attempt to protect Sri Lanka’s fisheries resources, the Government is to impose thumping fines upto Rs. 175 million for foreign vessels poaching in Sri Lankan waters, a Cabinet minister said.
Read MoreSource & Author: NOAA Fisheries Countries from around the globe agreed to take more steps to combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing at the 20th annual meeting of International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which recently concluded in Vilamoura, Portugal.
Read MoreSource & Author: EJF High-level officials from across Asia will gather at a conference in Seoul, Korea this month (29-30 Nov) in a strong move to boost action and collaboration to combat unsustainable and illegal fishing across the region.
Read MoreSource and Author: TEMPO.CO The Indonesia government continues its bilateral cooperation in marine and fisheries with the Dutch government by singing a memorandum of understanding (MoU) between Indonesian Marine and Fisheries Minister Susi Pudjiastuti and Dutch Minister for Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation Lilianne Ploumen.
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