Tag: fishing vessels

The German Bureau of Maritime Casualty Investigation published its report on the foundering of the fishing vessel RAMONA in the mouth of the River Elbe on 21 September 2021.

A search and rescue operation started in the waters around Jersey in the Channel Islands on December 8, after a Ro-Ro cargo ship hit and sunk a fishing vessel off France.

The Irish Marine Casualty Investigation Board (MCIB) published its reports regarding a serious injury onboard on the fishing vessel (FV) “Marliona”, while alongside Greencastle Harbour, Co Donegal, on 3 February 2021.

Human Rights at Sea has added its support for the need to include measures to address illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and forced labour in seafood supply chains in the development of a U.S. Ocean Climate Action Plan (OCAP).

New research displays intentional disabling of automatic identification system devices to provide insights into illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing activity.

A failure to keep watch nearly had disastrous results on the ocean off the Bay of Plenty coast, New Zealand, as the near 20 metre fishing vessel, FV Commission, collided with a 266m container ship, the Kota Lembah, on July 2021.

Thirteen people were saved from a fishing vessel off Virginia after it reportedly collided with an MSC containership.

A general cargo vessel named MIKA collided with a local fishing vessel on 19 October, off Ravenna, Italy.

11 October 2022 marked the 10th anniversary of the adoption of the 2012 Cape Town Agreement, the key international treaty applicable to large industrial fishing vessels aiming at providing safety standards, with the IMO Secretary-General urging for its ratification.  

A product tanker collided with a fishing vessel off the Netherlands on September 29, and an oil spill was reported.