Tag: IUU
Bahamas flagged reefer ships to benefit from WCPFC cooperation. The Bahamas Maritime Authority (BMA) is delighted to announce that the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC), at its 2020 annual meeting, has accorded The ...
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 ...
New Fisheries Improvement Project in the Gulf of Thailand. The need to address environmental and social issues in the Thai fishmeal industry has led via a complex journey, to a well-subscribed Fisheries Improvement Project in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 and Canada marine partnership agreement. The EU and Canada have concluded a partnership agreement, which includes clear commitments to combating the negative effects of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fisheries, marine pollution and climate ...
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 ...
Canada ratifies unregulated fishing treaty. Canada has ratified the historic Agreement to Prevent Unregulated High Seas Fisheries in the Central Arctic Ocean. This is the first international agreement of this magnitude to be reached before ...
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