Gambian forces arrest trawler connected to Italian operator
A boarding team from the Gambian Navy has detained a trawler found to be in breach of a stack of regulations – and to be fraudulently branding frozen products destined…
A boarding team from the Gambian Navy has detained a trawler found to be in breach of a stack of regulations – and to be fraudulently branding frozen products destined…
More than a third of the world's coastal states will now have access to satellite data and expertise provided by Norway as a tool to uncover fisheries crime. ‘This is…
Groups working with more than 150 companies are demanding collective efforts in advance of the G7 Hiroshima Summit. Members of the coalition – the Global Dialogue on Seafood Traceability (GDST),…
A large-scale raid by a Dutch police unit on fishing vessels in the port of Vlissingen has resulted in three arrests, so far. Police have not ruled out further arrests…
Members of a black market crayfish poaching ring in eastern New Zealand that netted thousands of dollars in illegal sales have been sentenced to home detention and community work. The sentences, in the Whakatane District Court, follow…
An Indonesian fishing vessel and its eight crew have been intercepted by the Australian Border Force (ABF) and Australian Defence Force (ADF) and escorted to Darwin. A boarding party from…
French Customs have successfully intercepted an eel smuggling ring in the Paris area, seizing more that 300kg of live glass eels and arresting three people. Fishing for glass eels is…
Eight crew members from two Indonesian fishing vessels, intercepted last month have been convicted in the Darwin Local Court for offences under the Fisheries Management Act 1991. The illegal fishermen…
A fisherman and his company in New Zealand have been handed fines and a three-year fishing ban after being found guilty of contravening a variety of regulations. A court in…
Caught after bragging on Facebook, two men from Northumbria have been given fines, ordered to do community work and were fortunate to get suspended rather than custodial sentences after being…