Illegal Fishing Archives

World’s largest maritime ships database joins fight against pirate fishing

IHS Markit’s extensive Sea-web database now highlights vessels with ties to illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing This advancement was facilitated through a collaboration between IHS Markit and the non-profit organisations Oceana and Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT) Effective January, leading global business information provider IHS Markit will add information on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing … Read more

GFCM Compliance: Conservation and MCS Measures in FRAs

This factsheet is also available in French and Spanish.

Amend the Public GFCM Authorised Vessel List to Strengthen Compliance and Transparency

This factsheet is also available in French and Spanish.

An Essential Fish Habitats Network to Rebuild Mediterranean Fisheries

This factsheet is also available in French and Spanish.

Experts highlight the need to stop insuring and financing activities that harm the ocean

A new paper, commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, outlines key actions that can be taken by public and private sectors to transition towards a sustainable ocean economy. Highlighted among these actions, is the need to stop insuring and financing non-compliant activities that are significantly harmful, such as illegal, unreported … Read more

A comparative study of key data elements in import control schemes aimed at tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the top three seafood markets: the European Union, the United States and Japan

Oceana: EU’s last chance to fulfil the law and stop overfishing

On 16-17 December, the Agriculture and Fisheries Council of the EU (“Agrifish”) will decide on fishing limits in EU Atlantic waters and the North Sea for 2020. For the first time, measures will be approved for Western Mediterranean waters as well. Oceana urges ministers to meet this final extension of the legal deadline to stop … Read more

Mediterranean countries commit to fight illegal fishing and preserve threatened ecosystems

Oceana applauds decisions to increase fisheries transparency, protect threatened corals and preserve breeding grounds adopted by FAO’s General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) in their 43rd session. The enforcement of these measures’ package will be vital to help revert the overfishing crisis of this sea, since they will create areas where fish can … Read more

World’s largest maritime ships database joins fight against pirate fishing

GFCM Compliance: Conservation and MCS Measures in FRAs

Amend the Public GFCM Authorised Vessel List to Strengthen Compliance and Transparency

An Essential Fish Habitats Network to Rebuild Mediterranean Fisheries

Experts highlight the need to stop insuring and financing activities that harm the ocean

A comparative study of key data elements in import control schemes aimed at tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing in the top three seafood markets: the European Union, the United States and Japan

Oceana: EU’s last chance to fulfil the law and stop overfishing

Mediterranean countries commit to fight illegal fishing and preserve threatened ecosystems

Call for the adoption of minimum landing sizes for all GFCM priority species

Ending Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

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