Tag: Illegal fishing
52 illegal nets and traps seized during pandemic. The Environment Agency has seen an increase in the amount of illegal fishing devices found along East Anglian river banks. In just nine months, from March 2020 ...
The Gulf of Guinea : An EU Maritime Security Factsheet. The Gulf of Guinea is a vast and diverse region stretching from Senegal to Angola, covering approximately 6,000 km of coastline. It is an important ...
Cockles and pāua back in sea after MPI intervention. Almost 3,000 cockles and 150 undersized pāua are back in the sea after successful interventions by the New Zealand Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) and Police. ...
Illegal fishing of sharks and rays caught on camera in Mediterranean. Multiple species of sharks and rays, some of them critically endangered, are being illegally caught on a regular basis in the Mediterranean Sea, evidence ...
Canada takes fight against illegal fishing to outer space. It is estimated that IUU fishing accounts for about 30 per cent of all fishing activity worldwide, representing up to 26 million tonnes of fish caught ...
Leading global brands launch new traceability standards. The Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST)—a major industry forum involving more than five dozen companies worldwide from across the seafood supply chain—has released the first-ever global standards ...
EC urges Ecuador to fight IUU fishing The European Commission continues its action to fight illegal fishing worldwide by notifying the Republic of Ecuador that it needs to step up its actions (yellow card) in ...
Endangered porpoise and rampant fishing in biosphere reserve. Sea Shepherd ship M/V Farley Mowat and Museo de la Ballena research vessel Narval encounter dozens of skiffs fishing with prohibited gillnets near a live vaquita inside ...
Zero tolerance for fishing in NZ closed areas. New Zealand’s Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) says zero tolerance will be given to people who fish in areas that have been closed to protect threatened marine ...
Massive illegal haul of flounder and oysters shocks NZ fishery officers. The Ministry for Primary Industries (MPI) in New Zealand says it is “disappointed” by the scale of an illegal haul of flounder and oysters ...
No safe haven for illegal fishing with Canada’s ratification of the Port State Measures Agreement. Every year, an estimated 26 million tonnes of caught fish is unaccounted for. This illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) ...
New equipment to help combat illegal fishing. Funding has helped secure new specialist equipment to boost fisheries enforcement patrols in East Anglia. The new kit, which cost over £15,000, consists of a high grade digital ...
EU lifts Taiwan’s yellow card following reforms. The EU has recognised Taiwan’s reforms put in place during the last three and a half years to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) – and last ...
SFF throws support behind Scottish Government on Rockall dispute. The Scottish Fishermen’s Federation (SFF) has thrown its support behind moves by the Scottish Government’s robust stance on Rockall where Irish fishing vessels are operating within ...
Illegal shellfish haul taken in New Zealand. Two men are likely to face court action after being found in possession of 3,526 pipi (a type of bivalve mollusc) taken from the Ohiwa Harbour near Kutarere ...
NGOs call for an end to fisheries subsidies. BLOOM and 58 other international NGOs have written to the World Trade Organisation calling on their members to respect their engagement to conclude a binding agreement ...
Seafood mislabelling rife in South Korea. Following reports of mislabelled seafood in South Korean markets, Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) conducted the first comprehensive DNA test to determine the size of the problem – and found ...
West African joint fisheries surveillance – In the framework of the EU cooperation PESCAO project, a joint fisheries surveillance operation to detect illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing has just been undertaken, in special initiative called ...
Good progress against IUU fishing in South Pacific. The 7th annual meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO), hosted by the European Union in The Hague, The Netherlands, has ...
EC lifts yellow card from Thailand. The European Commission has delisted Thailand from the group of “warned countries” in recognition of its progress in tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. In a media statement, the ...
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