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Press Releases
August 20, 2013
The Moroccan netters are overfishing the stocks of swordfish and killing 15,000 dolphins, pilot whales, sperm whales and other cetaceans, as well as 100,000 sharks per year. As soon as the…
August 20, 2013
Oceana asks the Italian Fisheries Minister to finally make the european ban on driftnets effective
The Director of Oceana in Europe, Xavier Pastor, has written a letter to the Italian Government’s Fisheries Minister, Mr. Paolo de Castro, in which he describes the preliminary results of…
August 20, 2013
During the Oceana Ranger’s recent expedition in the Tyrrhenian Sea, the crew on board the environmental organisation’s catamaran witnessed an interaction between illegal driftnetters and large purse-seiners congregating around the…
August 20, 2013
The italian government orders the confiscation of driftnets found aboard vessels at port
The Italian Legislative Department has recently backed the new “zero tolerance” policy recently announced by Paolo de Castro, the Italian Minister of Agriculture and Fishing, declaring it illegal for vessels…
August 20, 2013
Hundreds of tons of swordfish caught illegally by Morocco are sold in Spain
Despite the fact that driftnets have been banned in the Mediterranean for many years, a fleet of Moroccan fishing vessels continues to use this destructive fishing gear in the Alboran…
August 20, 2013
International Tuna Commission calls for data, but not catch limits on imperiled species
The annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT) which ended last night, brought agreement to examine the status of Atlantic sharks, but no measures…
August 19, 2013
The detention by Norwegian patrols of two vessels flying Spanish flags, apprehended while catching Greenland halibut, has once again highlighted the wide-ranging practice of rogue fishing by companies that have…
August 19, 2013
Galician businessman Antonio Vidal, indicted by the EE.UU. authorities for pirate fishing
The Galician businessman, Antonio Vidal, has been indicted by the US Administration for attempting to fraudulently enter into that country’s market some 25,000 kilos of fish protected by international conventions,…
August 19, 2013
The EU Council of Fisheries Ministers is to debate next week the management of Mediterranean fisheries.Oceana condemns the fact that the EU has spent tens of millions of Euros in…
August 19, 2013
Oceana reports dozens of illegal italian driftnetters fishing in the Thyrrenian Sea
Along the last three weeks, the Oceana Ranger catamaran has sailed a thousand miles in the Thyrrenian sea, close to the south Italian and Sicilian coasts. The Ranger crew has…
