Tag: IUU fishing
Ecuador to announce creation of Hermandad Marine Reserve off Galapagos. An article fom Mongabay news website. “Ecuador is proud to announce the creation of the Hermandad Marine Reserve in the coming days,” the country’s president ...
Age of Union Alliance makes $4.5m donation to Sea Shepherd. Age of Union Alliance, led by tech leader and environmental activist Dax Dasilva, has announced a $4.5 million donation to Sea Shepherd, the global NGO ...
USA wins new conservation measures for Pacific tuna. Tropical tuna in the eastern Pacific Ocean gained renewed protections and science-based catch levels under resolutions advocated by the United States. They were adopted by the Inter-American Tropical ...
EC adopts new strategy for Mediterranean and Black Sea. The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) has adopted its new 2030 Strategy for the Mediterranean and Black Sea at the end of the 44th annual session ...
Concrete steps taken against ghost nets in Mediterranean and Black Sea. While the international community zeroed in on the critical importance of the environment for our future at the COP26, an important meeting focusing specifically ...
SeaBos members ramp up efforts to transform the seafood sector. Supplied by Amod Ashok Salgaonkar SeaBOS members agreed during its annual CEO meeting to continue activities designed to eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing ...
Oceana calls on WTO member states to curb harmful fisheries subsidies that facilitate overexploitation and unsustainable distant water fishing. Oceana released a new report showing evidence that the world’s top industrial fishing nations are using ...
Belize commits to greater fishing transparency. The Belize High Seas Fisheries Unit (BHSFU) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) to make its vessel tracking data publicly available through the Global Fishing Watch map, which ...
Mediterranean countries unite to fight IUU fishing IUU fishing catches millions of tonnes of fish every year. It is estimated that IUU fishing accounts, on average, for about 20 percent (or 1 in 5) of ...
EC leading the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing issues Republic of Ghana with yellow card. The Commission, leading the fight against illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing worldwide, has issued a warning (so-called ...
PSMA Meeting Hosted by EU – EU hosts meeting on the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) to reinforce the global fight against illegal fishing From 31 May to 4 June 2021, the European Union is ...
New ISSF Report Benchmarks Tuna RFMO Performance against the U.N. FAO Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) From Minimum Standards for Inspector Training to Advance Notice of Port entry, Report Identifies IUU-Mitigation Gaps and Opportunities ...
On IUU in General – Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing in general and in Cameroon What is IUU fishing? IUU stands for illegal, unreported or unregulated fishing. The European IUU legislation applies to all fishing vessels, ...
MSC urges WTO to end harmful fishing subsidies The Marine Stewardship Council – an environmental not-for-profit whose mission is to end overfishing – has joined calls for the World Trade Organization (WTO) to abolish harmful ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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