Tag: illegal fishing

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).

A captain of a Tunisian ship was reportedly arrested for fishing illegally in Maltese territorial waters on August 15.

The US government has announced a set of actions to combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing that the White House says is significantly contributing to global overfishing and the collapse or decline of fisheries.

Global Fishing Watch has developed and publicly released the first ever global map of previously undetected dark fleets, or vessels that do not broadcast their location or appear in public monitoring systems.

Oceana's IUU (illegal, unregulated, unreported) fishing campaign website "Pull the Plug on Pirate Fishing" has recently been launched along with an information-sharing tool.

The Quadrilateral Security Alliance (Quad), a defense cooperation group that includes the US, India, Australia and Japan, will launch a joint satellite-based tracking system aimed at Chinese 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.