MCS & enforcement – Page 14

25 Oct
2016

Reflagging by EU fishing vessels – the need for stricter standards.

Source & Author: WhoFishesFAR Reflagging by EU fishing vessels – the need for stricter standards

19 Oct
2016

Fugitive vessel Greko 1 docks in Mombasa

Source: Stop Illegal Fishing Author: Sally Frankcom The Greek owned Belize flagged vessel Greko 1, on the run from Somali authorities, docked in Mombasa on 18th October 2016. The fugitive vessel had originally been denied port services at Mombasa in September 2016 but on this occasion, the Captain reported a sick crew member on-board and […]

15 Sep
2016

Oceana, SkyTruth and Google launch Global Fishing Watch, first free, online tool to reveal commercial fishing activity worldwide

Source & Author: Oceana Oceana, SkyTruth and Google today launched the public Beta of Global Fishing Watch, a new online technology platform that allows anyone in the world free access to monitor and track the activities of the world’s largest commercial fishing vessels in near real-time.

5 Sep
2016

European Union tackling illegal fishing in Western Africa by supporting regional cooperation

Source & Author: Europa.eu A four-day campaign co-funded by the EU against illegal fishing off the West Africa Coast has shown concrete results in tackling illegal fishing in Western Africa. From 28 August to 1 September 2016, the West African Sub-Regional Fisheries Commission (SRFC) organised a regional operation at sea to control vessels fishing in […]

30 Jun
2016

How to better monitor activities of the EU’s external fishing fleet

Source & Author: WhoFishesFar.org The legal framework governing the activities of the European external fishing fleet is a crucial part of the fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. This regulation is currently being revised.

18 Jun
2016

Lack of Transparency: the Achilles Heel in IUU Fishing Control

Source & Author: House of Ocean Who Fishes Far recently announced the availability of new information through their pioneering database, which represents an unprecedented achievement in affording visibility to information that is rarely accessible to the public.

1 Jun
2016

Western Africa’s missing fish: the impacts of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing and under-reporting catches by foreign fleets

Source: odi Author: Alfonso Daniels, Miren Gutierrez, Gonzalo Fanjul, Arantxa Guereña, Ishbel Matheson and Kevin Watkins Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is at the centre of a crisis of sustainability. Nowhere is that crisis more visible than in western Africa. Current rates of extraction are driving several species towards extinction while jeopardising the livelihoods of […]

28 Apr
2016

Indonesia has a new weapon against illegal fishing: nano-satellites

Source: 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.

16 Apr
2016

Trawling for trouble

Source & 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 […]

29 Mar
2016

Australian authorities capture vessels suspected of illegally fishing for sea cucumber

Source: 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.