Tag: fishing vessels

The International Transport Workers’ federation (ITF) is highlighting the UK's inadequate visa system in a new report on exploitation of workers in the country's fishing industry.

Mozambican assembly passed a bill to activate the maritime courts nationwide as part of the country's effort to fight a growing trend of offshore crimes including piracy, illegal fishing, and terrorism.

The Gard Club makes recommendations on how to navigate safely in the Chinese waters during the seasonal fishing ban which came into force on 1 May 2022.

The maritime intelligence consultancies TM Tracking and I.R. Consilium published a report examining both how foreign fishing operators are accessing and exploiting African flag registries for their fishing vessels in pursuit of legal impunity, and how weaknesses in African flagging regimes attract this exploitation.

IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim urges States to take action to achieve entry into force of Cape Town fishing vessel safety agreement.

The world needs safe, sustainable and legal fishing - this is why the Cape Town Agreement (CTA) needs to be ratified now, IMO says and explains how it can enhance fishing safety.

On February 22, three Taiwanese fishing vessels ran aground near Pointe-aux-Sables, Mauritus, a few miles to the west of Port Louis. 

UK Women in Fisheries is a new network for all women who work in the UK’s fishing industry, funded by The Seafarers’ Charity. 

Two new studies from the global GloLitter Partnerships project, which aims to reduce sea-based marine plastic litter, address the loss of fishing gear, which adds to the growing quantity of plastic waste at sea and on beaches.

On September 30, a bulker transited through a fish farm off the coast of Turkey, hitting several pens and releasing more than one million fish into the sea.