Source: The Guardian Author: Arthur Nelsen World’s third-largest seafood exporter given six months to clean up its industry where ‘illegal fishing is almost totally allowed’
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21 Apr
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14 Apr
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2015
Source: EJF Author: EJF, OCEANA, Pew, WWF Today, the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), Oceana, The Pew Charitable Trusts, and WWF welcomed the European Commission’s warning, or ‘yellow-carding’, of Thailand for not fighting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
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10 Mar
2015
2015
Source: Korea Herald Author: Lee Jae-min One sticky issue that has haunted Korea for the past two years is now being put to rest. Almost simultaneously, Washington and Brussels are scratching off Korea from the list of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing countries.
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8 Feb
2015
2015
Source: The IUU Fishing Blog Author: House of the Ocean On 17th June 2014, the White House released a Presidential Memorandum in which some initial measures to combat illegal and unregulated fishing were established.
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26 Jan
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2015
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune Author: Lorne Cook (AP) The European Union blacklisted Sri Lanka Monday for failing to combat illegal fishing, officially banning imports of fisheries products from Sri Lanka-flagged vessels into the EU.
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24 Dec
2014
2014
Source: The IUU Fishing Blog Author: House of the Ocean The IUU Fishing Blog ends the year sharing the good news that the IUU fishing vessel Thunder has been sighted and may be close to being apprehended.
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15 Dec
2014
2014
Source: Phys Org Author: WWF Illegally caught fish comprise a significant portion of both the global catch and of seafood imports, including to the world’s leading fish-consuming markets. To counter this, the EU enacted strong fisheries laws and in 2012 began issuing warnings to – and imposing sanctions on – states which are accused of […]
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12 Dec
2014
2014
Source: Yahoo! News Author: Julia Fioretti The European Commission has issued warnings to four Pacific and Caribbean countries for failing to crack down on illegal fishing, exposing them to a possible trade ban.
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17 Nov
2014
2014
Source & Author: The Pew Charitable Trust For first time, international police organization’s fugitive list focuses on environmental crimes
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30 Oct
2014
2014
Source: The Fishing Site Author: Mercedes Rosello Oceana has reported on the concerning state of swordfish fisheries in the Mediterranean, highlighting in particular the indiscriminate targeting and trading of this fish by EU (particularly Italian) vessels.
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