Tag: fishing vessels

The Taiwanese government fails to protect migrant fishers – coming mainly from Southeast Asian countries – against human rights abuses, because of the lack of appropriate laws, transparency and labour inspection measures, the NGO coalition ‘Human Rights for Migrant Fishers’ has noted. 

The Nigbo Maritime Safety Administration, China, issued guidance for fishing vessels to navigate safely in the coastal waters of Ningbo-Zhoushan Port. It is noted that there are about 5000 fishing boats along the coast of Ningbo every day, and heavy fog is frequent in the area. 

Partnering with Google, Indonesian Minister of Fisheries and Marine Affairs, Susi Pudjiastuti, is catching illegal fishing activity in real time, after thousands of vessels’ locations were revealed online. Previously, most of the Indonesian fishing activity had been invisible.

A wheelhouse is not just the place from where a fishing vessel is navigated. The sinking of a fishing vessel highlights issues related to life-saving equipment and also how much valuable time can be lost if the wheelhouse is left unattended while the bilge alarms notify that something goes wrong.

Industrial fisheries, that rely on bottom trawling to catch fish, threw 437 million tonnes of fish and $560 billion overboard over the past 65 years, according to a new research by the Sea Around Us initiative at the University of British Columbia. The study also found that fisheries globally caught 5.6 billion tonnes of fish.

On Saturday evening, the loaded tanker 'Tofteviken' collided with the commercial fishing vessel 'Polaris', nearly 30 miles southeast of Bridgehampton, New York. The Tofteviken was transiting to New York, while the Polaris was transiting back to its homeport in Massachusetts after a night of fishing.

New technologies offer unique opportunities to support fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance, particularly for countries without the means to patrol their waters or enforce legislation against illegal fishing and overfishing, according to a briefing note by ODI.

The skipper of the fishing boat 'Lady Sarah' pleaded guilty and was fined $2,000 by New Zealand's Christchurch District Court, after the vessel ran aground on Kaitorete Spit near the entrance to Lake Ellesmere, back in December 2016, due to improper look-out, leading to the vessel's total loss.

The video depicts the abandoned fishing vessel 'Reyes del Mar 2' capsizing and eventually sinking at the port of Puerto de Concepción del Uruguay, in the Uruguay river, after years at the port's pier number seven. The ship suffered a fire back in 2011 and has been berthed to this location, until this Thursday, when it began listing.

An 8.13m fibreglass fishing vessel was engaged in picking up its fleets of creels, when it began to take on water, and subsequently sank. The skipper, who was working alone, managed to deploy the boat’s liferaft and climb into it as the boat was sinking. He was later rescued without injuries.