The idea of Blue Growth emerged during the 2012 Rio + 20 process under the auspices of the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development, in turn building on the 1992 Earth Summit. Blue Growth has become the latest buzzword, something that appears to be promoted as a miracle cure for stalled progress and dwindling natural resources.
For a nation with just 2040 square kilometres of land across several islands, Mauritius has a huge Exclusive Economic Zone of more than 2.30 million square kilometres. The challenge of patrolling this vast area of the Indian Ocean has been made more manageable with the delivery of the final five of ten Fast Interceptor Boats designed and built by the Indian Government-owned M/s Goa Shipyard Ltd.
IFCAs, the bodies responsible for administering inshore fisheries in England are increasingly risking becoming hamstrung, warns the National Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. According to the findings of a meeting of the NFFO West Coast Committee meeting held in Carnforth, the IFCAs increasingly lack of fishing industry representatives on their committees and the appointments process is in need of overhaul in order to be more conducive to fostering positive industry engagement in the management of local fisheries.
EU Commissioner for Fisheries Karmenu Vella has launched a campaign to rebuild Mediterranean fish stocks, joined in making his announcement by secretary general at the Moroccan Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries Zakia Driouich, Europêche president Javier Garat and Marco Lambertini, DG of WWF International.
Europêche President Javier Garat was key speaker at a public debate held at Europe's biggest industry event, the global Seafood EXPO in Brussels hosted by Commissioner Vella. During the debate, the Commissioner launched a Mediterranean Strategy and a call for action to halt environmental degradation and the threat for many vulnerable fishing communities.
Four Swedish municipalities and two county councils with Baltic coastlines are set to cooperate on local fisheries development.
The Algerian authorities have defined two areas for coral harvesting under a 2016-2020 management plan announced last week.
Mathilde Jounot’s crowdfunded film, Oceans, La Voix des Invisibles (Oceans, the Voice of the Invisibles), which explores the relationship between NGOs, corporations and the perceived efforts made towards privatising the oceans is now available with its English subtitles.
Russian President Vladimir Putin expects changes to be made to Russian fishing industry laws at the State Duma spring session.
Extensive discussion took place over two days as part of the United Seafood Industry Forum in Adelaide, which was opened by the Assistant Minister for Agriculture and Water Resources, Senator Anne Ruston.