Source & Author: FAO FAO Port State Measures Agreement set to become binding law Illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing is about to become much more difficult thanks to the imminent entry into force of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a ground-breaking international accord championed by FAO.
Read MoreSource: New Zealand Herald Author: Nicholas Jones Officials are sceptical of a study that claimed more than half of the fish caught in New Zealand waters do not show up in official records, Prime Minister John Key says.
Read MoreSource: Quartz Author: Steve Mollman Indonesia already makes good use of one weapon against the foreign boats that routinely fish illegally in its vast waters: explosives. To discourage the activity—which costs it billions of dollars in lost revenue annually—the archipelago nation has been on a boat-blasting binge in recent years.
Read MoreSource: MarketWired Author: Fisheries and Oceans Canada Canada and the European Union signed a joint statement today to work together more closely to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the world’s oceans.
Read MoreSource & Author: WWF It is not surprising that the world’s largest Seafood Expo takes place in Europe every year – indeed, this reflects the fact that the EU is the world’s number 1 destination for seafood exports. With this position of course comes great responsibility, and the Expo, which is now in full swing […]
Read MoreSource & Author: The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana, The Pew Charitable Trusts and WWF Reaction from the NGO’s on new third country cardings from European Commission: The Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana, The Pew Charitable Trusts and WWF are working together to secure the harmonised and effective implementation of the EU Regulation to end illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) […]
Read MoreSource: The Parliament Author: Lasse Gustavsson One in three fish species served in restaurants in Brussels are not what they seem, reveals Lasse Gustavsson. This shocking and sad reality was revealed by Oceana in 2015 by testing fish from over 150 restaurants including the canteens of the European Commission and Parliament.
Read MoreSource & Author: The Economist Why do Chinese fishermen keep getting arrested? AS A deterrent it is wasteful, polluting and provocative. But it is also, Indonesia’s government insists, highly effective. On April 5th the country’s maritime-affairs minister, Susi Pudjiastuti, watched live feed from seven different places as 23 Malaysian and Vietnamese trawlers, seized for illegal […]
Read MoreSource: Mongabay Author: Alexandra Ossola Representatives of more than 80 nations met at UN headquarters in New York City to begin hashing out a new treaty to govern “the conservation and sustainable use of marine biological diversity” on the international waters of the high seas.
Read MoreSource: SeafoodSource.com Author: Madelyn Kearns, Associate Editor Border Force officials in Australia apprehended a pair of Vietnamese fishing vessels suspected of operating illegally in the waters off the coast of Cairns.
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