Tag: Illegal unreported and unregulated fishing
Nowhere to land, nowhere to sell. Seafood sector giants focus action on closing ports and supply chains to illegal fishing. Five of the most influential industry and multi-stakeholder platforms in the seafood sector have released ...
SeaBOS commits to time-bound goals for a healthy ocean. For the first time in the history of seafood production, ten of the largest seafood companies in the world have committed to a set of time-bound ...
MSC goes fishing in space for sustainable solutions. Just over fifty years after humans first set foot on the moon, the “Gravity Challenge” takes space technology to tackle some of the biggest environmental and business ...
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 ...
Vietnam fights IUU fishing in bid to remove EU yellow card. Vietnam has been taking various measures across its provinces in order to fight IUU fishing so that it can have the yellow card that ...
Illicit fisheries trade hurting nations who can afford it least. More than 8 million to 14 million tonnes of unreported fish catches are traded illicitly every year, costing the legitimate market between $9 billion and ...
Working conditions in fisheries need to improve. The fisheries sector is making an increasingly important contribution to food security and livelihoods, however more needs to be done to improve working conditions which remain dangerous for ...
New fisheries plan for Med and Black Sea. The 43rd General Fisheries Commission for Mediterranean (GFCM) Annual Session attended by 24 countries took place in Athens from 4 to 9 November 2019. The 15 recommendations ...
Countries sign safety at sea declaration. Nearly 50 countries signed a Declaration to enhance safety at sea by promoting the entry into force of the Cape Town Agreement (CTA), and combating IUU fishing at last ...
Vietnam seafood sector commitment to end IUU fishing. After two years of EU’s warning of yellow card for Vietnam’s caught marine products, Vietnam’s marine product export to EU market has been remarkably affected, down 6.5% ...
Gambia receives training in fight against IUU fishing. Last week, 20 fisheries inspectors from the Republic of The Gambia received training in control techniques to fight and deter Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU). The ...
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) ...
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 ...
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