Source: European Commission The European Commission is continuing its fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing worldwide by warning Vietnam, with a “yellow card”, about the risk of it being identified as a non-cooperating country.
Read MoreSource: Focus Taiwan Kaohsiung, Oct. 20 (CNA) A European Union (EU) delegation visited Chienchen Fishing Port in Kaohsiung Friday on an inspection tour of the facilities and the management of the Fisheries Agency (FA).
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: 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.
Read MoreSource: Insurance Journal Author: Alistair Doyle Until now, legal loopholes in defining pirate fishing have sometimes enabled trawler owners to gain insurance for vessels that harm global fish stocks. The EU list gives a common benchmark for outlawing vessels.
Read MoreSource & Author: Vietnam News The United States has introduced regulations related to fighting IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) fishing. These will affect imported seafood products as of January 1, 2018.
Read MoreSource: Euractiv Author: Javier Garat and Linnéa Engström The European Commission needs to work out more effective rules to ensure that only fish meeting high social and environmental standards can enter the EU market, as well as a better implementation of the EU control regime in general, argue Linnéa Engström and Javier Garat.
Read MoreSource: Taipei Times Author: Lin Chia-nan Council of Agriculture Minister Lin Tsung-hsien (林聰賢) yesterday said he is optimistic that Taiwan can be removed from the European Commission’s warning list on illegal fishing this year, but Greenpeace Taiwan disagrees.
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