Insurance company Hydor has ended its contract with a fleet of vessels that were discovered fishing illegally across the Atlantic by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF). Without insurance, the fleet operators are at risk of severe financial losses. Oceana, who worked with EJF to warn Hydor about its unwitting association with an illegal fleet, says … Read more
Oceana believes that the new Directive on Sustainable Corporate Governance, proposed by the European Commission, is not enough to identify, prevent and remedy the rampant environmental and human rights abuses across the seafood supply chain. The organisation sustains that the new legislation is an opportunity to force businesses to improve their value chains. However, the … Read more
Brest, France — As heads of state come together for the One Ocean Summit in France, NGOs from across the United States, European Union, and Japan, are calling on their nations – which combined account for more than 55% of all the seafood traded internationally – to prioritize policies to end illegal, unreported, and unregulated … Read more
The One Ocean Summit presents a unique opportunity to strengthen cross-national collaboration to tackle illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As a coalition of organizations working on environmental and human rights issues, we call upon the main market States; EU, US, and Japan at this One Ocean Summit to jointly work together to combat IUU … Read more
In June 2021, member countries of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT)’s Integrated Monitoring Measures (IMM) working group met online to discuss and consider the advancement of ICCAT’s conservation and management measures. During this meeting, IMM members reviewed a series of proposals including those intended to strengthen ICCAT’s measures aimed at combatting illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Among these was a proposal tabled … Read more
Evidence shows Italian vessels apparently fishing in areas where bottom trawling is forbidden Oceana calls on the GFCM and the EU to increase transparency to ensure sustainable fisheries management in the Mediterranean Oceana has detected two bottom trawlers apparently fishing illegally for 126 hours in one of the three areas of the Strait of Sicily … Read more
Monitoring, control, and surveillance (MCS) are crucial to ensuring proper fisheries management and rebuilding stocks, particularly in the Mediterranean Sea, where 75% of stocks are considered overfished.1 The General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean and Black Sea (GFCM) has taken significant steps in recent years to improve MCS of the fisheries in its area of … Read more
Oceana calls on the General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM) to provide real protection for areas where bottom trawling is forbidden. The members of the GFCM, which include 22 countries and the European Union, are meeting this week to review their actions to tackle illegal fishing, ahead of its plenary meeting in November. “The … Read more
On 17 December 2020, Oceana hosted an online workshop with the purpose of discussing progress that the marine insurance industry has made in adopting best practices to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The workshop convened signatories and supporting institutions to an insurance industry statement against IUU fishing that was launched in 2017 at … Read more
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