Tag: illegal fishing

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 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.

Fisheries crime is diverse category of criminality that can include corruption, fraud, human and drugs trafficking as well as piracy.

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS) issued a report focusing on how satellites reveal global extent of forced labor in the world’s fishing fleet.

Researchers with the Pew Charitable Trusts launched a new tool for port states, fishing regulators and seafood buyers to determine where illegally-caught seafood is most likely to come ashore.

Three countries, Bulgaria, Poland and Portugal, signed the "Torremolinos Declaration" in efforts to ratify the Cape Town Agreement by the tenth anniversary of its adoption (11 October 2022), and to combat illegal unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU).

Finland is the latest country to join the Cape Town Agreement concerning fishing vessel safety, in efforts to bring mandatory safety measures for fishing vessels of 24 m in length and over. The treaty will be enforced one year after at least 22 states, with an aggregate 3,600 fishing vessels of 24 meters in length and over operating on the high seas have expressed their consent to be bound by it.

According to Reuters, the Amazon river dolphin known as pink dolphin located in Brazil, is under threat since fishermen are hunting and killing them illegally by making them bait for a catfish called piracatinga, which gathers fish that demand high prices in the city.