PescaDOLUS, the network specialising in studying and exposing transnational crime in the fisheries sector, has released a detailed report supported by the Nordic Council of Ministers and the Norwegian Agency for Development Co-operation (Norad).
In a dramatic step forward for Asia-Pacific and global ocean conservation, the Philippines has begun implementing sustainable fishing reforms with Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) as a partner providing critical support on science and policy.
Mikhail Ivanik, deputy head of Russia’s Federal Fisheries Agency (Rosrybolovstvo), told the International Fishery Congress currently taking place in Vladivostok that the fishing sector needs to make the transition to electronic logging and remote licensing.
The International Fishery Congress taking place in Vladivostok has a strong presence of Icelandic companies taking part, and Berglind Ásgeirsdóttir, Iceland’s Ambassador to Russia, held a keynote speech during the opening session that attracted significant interest.
MEP Linnéa Engström and Europêche, representing the fisheries sector in Europe, are calling on the EU Commission to make commitments on control and imports of fish at the Our Ocean conference in Malta this week.
The European Parliament’s Committee on Fisheries is holding a public hearing on the sustainability of supertrawlers later this month to examine the various impacts of these fishing vessels.
The agreement over access to the Loophole, the area of international waters in the Barents Sea between the Norwegian, Russian and Svalbard zones, is no longer functioning, according Norwegian vessel operators’ federation Fiskebåt.
At the first meeting of the Working Group on Small-Scale and Recreational Fisheries, organisations and stakeholders have taken concrete steps to support the sustainable development of small-scale fisheries.
The results of a survey of the spawning biomass of orange roughy off eastern Tasmania have just been released, indicating that orange roughy stocks are healthy.
The 39th Annual Meeting of the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) took place last week Montréal. More than 180 delegates from eleven NAFO contracting parties were welcomed to Montréal by NAFO President, Stéphane Artano, and the Honourable Dominic LeBlanc, Minister of Fisheries, Oceans and the Canadian Coast Guard.