June 24, 2015 โ The ocean is a frontier for sustainable growth. It offers increased food security, economic growth and value-added investment opportunities to nations willing to develop maritime resources without using them up. Yet there is an urgent need to deal directly with declines in the value and harvest of wild-capture fisheries around the world.
Despite maritime security tension, US and China to cooperate on combating illegal fishing
June 24, 2015 โ The U.S. and China said Wednesday they are stepping up cooperation on preserving the ocean and combating illegal fishing despite their differences on maritime security.
Secretary of State John Kerry said that indicates the two nations are โworking hard to address differences and to find the areas of commonality.โ
The two governments discussed ocean policy on the final day Wednesday of high-level talks on security and the economy. The leaders of the Chinese delegation met later Wednesday at the White House with President Barack Obama, who will host Chinaโs President Xi Jinping in the fall.
This weekโs talks are a prelude to Xiโs visit, his first to the U.S. since 2013. Despite growing tensions over cybertheft and Chinaโs island-building in the disputed South China Sea, the U.S. and China are stressing how they can work together on less contentious issues, such as climate change.
State Councilor Yang Jiechi said they have โbroad common interests in global maritime governanceโ and that they could jointly build a โpeaceful and tranquilโ marine environment.
Read the full story from the Associated Press here
Spain Imposes Huge Fines on Illegal Fishing Beneficiaries
June 25, 2015 โ The Spanish Government has announced penalties that could reach more than 11 million Euros against Spanish individuals and companies involved in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
An EU coalition of three international NGOs, including Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana and WWF has described it as a historic moment in the battle against IUU fishing and are calling on other EU member states to follow suit with their own nationals.
The fines, the highest known imposed by an EU government, are issued against companies and individuals for 19 serious infringements linked to illegal fishing activities in the Southern Ocean.
The companies are allegedly linked to a Galician syndicate suspected of poaching Patagonian toothfish in Antarctic waters for more than a decade.
Maria Jose Cornax, Fisheries Campaign manager at Oceana, welcomed the announcement: โThis is the highest known sanction and the first of its kind ever imposed in the European Union regarding IUU fishing.
โTodayโs announcement sends a clear warning message to citizens who until now have felt protected by anonymous shell companies in offshore havens and flags of convenience.
Read the full story at The Fish Site
Thai Authorities Bust Largest Human Trafficking Ring to Date Ahead of USโs July TIP Report
June 23, 2015 โ Thai police said on Tuesday they had โshown sincerityโ and wrapped up the countryโs biggest investigation into human trafficking, as rights groups questioned whether they had even scratched the surface.
Thailand began a crackdown on trafficking networks and suspected camps hidden deep in its jungle-carpeted mountains last month following the discovery of more than 30 bodies buried in camps in the south.
Police have arrested 56 suspects โ including politicians, police, government officials, businessmen and an army general โ and issued arrest warrants for 63.
Aek Angsananont, police deputy commissioner-general, called the probe โthe biggest human trafficking investigation in Thailandโs historyโ.
Around 1,000 police officers, many of them based in southern Thailand, took part in the investigation, Aek said, without elaborating on any ongoing or future probes.
Police have sent 19 cases filled with more than 100,000 document sheets to the Office of the Attorney General which will have until July 24 to decide whether to file charges, Aek said.
Read the full story from Reuters
Spain Proposes Big Fines for Alleged Antarctic Fish Poachers
June 23, 2015 โ MADRID โ Authorities in Spain have accused a company there of running a lucrative international operation that illegally captured vast amounts of an Antarctic fish prized in top restaurants.
The Spanish government proposes fining the company as much as 11.4 million euros ($12.9 million) for alleged poaching of the Antarctic toothfish, a delicacy marketed in North America as Chilean sea bass.
A government statement said the operation was concealed behind a labyrinthine system of foreign front companies, with fishing boats flying the flags of African and Asian countries to mask ownership.
Spain did not name the companies, but New Zealandโs Foreign Minister Murray McCully told The Associated Press in an interview they were all linked to Vidal Armadores SA, which was fined 150,000 euros in 2010 for illegal fishing near Antarctica.
The Spanish government declined comment when asked why it did not name Vidal or the front companies it allegedly used.
New Delhi: Congress leader KV Thomas urges Centre to give free ration to fishermen hit by ban
June 23, 2015 โ NEW DELHI: Senior Congress leader KV Thomas today urged the Centre to provide free ration to fishermen affected by the ban imposed on fishing by mechanised boats for the months of June and July.
Ban on fishing by mechanised boats is imposed between June 15 and July 31 by state like Kerala in the territorial waterways and a total ban on fishing is imposed for one month from June 1 by the Centre in the Exclusive Economic Zone, he told newspersons at a press conference here.
Spanish government cracks down on illegal fishing with โฌ11m in fines
June 22, 2015 โ The EUโs recent high profile fishing policy reforms took a major step forward this week as the Spanish government announced potential penalties of up to โฌ11m (ยฃ7.8m) for those engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The fines, which were issued late last week against companies and individuals for 19 serious incidents, are the highest to be imposed by an EU government and have been described as โhistoricโ by a coalition of three international NGOs, including the Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana, and WWF.
More than 3,000 documents were analyzed by the Spanish Government as part of โOperation Sparrowโ, which also saw officials raid fishing companies suspected of breaching fishing regulations.
Read the full story at Business Green
Scottish Fishermenโs group claims new seabed controls threaten livelihoods
June 22, 2015 โ New limits on trawling and sea-bottom dredging threaten jobs in a ยฃ50 million a year rural industry, the Scottish Fishermenโs Federation has warned, as a row between the Scottish Government and a key Scottish exporting sector threatened to escalate.
The SFF say that restrictions on the ยฃ40m west coast langoustine fishery and ยฃ8m scallop fishery due to take effect from October, would close 880 square kilometres of inshore waters in the South Arran and Wester Ross Management Protection Areas (MPAs) to scallop dredging and impose economically-damaging restrictions on a further 1500 square kilometres of prime fishing grounds.
The federation claims that draft conservation orders for four west coast MPAs, announced earlier this month, go far beyond what had been agreed during months of talks with civil servants.
The SFF has demanded urgent talks with fisheries minister Richard Lochhead, now expected to take place next week.
SFF president Ross Dougal told the Sunday Herald that, following months of negotiations with the Scottish Government and its environment quango Scottish Natural Heritage, the federation reached what it believed to be an acceptable compromise.
Vietnam Accuses China of Attacking Its Fishermen
June 17, 2015 โ HANOI, Vietnam โ A Vietnamese official on Wednesday accused China of attacking its fishermen in three separate incidents over the past week in the disputed South China Sea.
Nguyen Thanh Hung, head of the fisheries union in Binh Chau village in central Quang Ngai province where the fishermen came from, said a Vietnamese trawler with 12 crew was intercepted by a Chinese military vessel while fishing near the Paracel islands on Sunday. He said the Chinese seized their catch and fishing equipment.
New Zealand Salmon Industry Globally Hailed For Sustainability
June 16, 2015 โ New Zealand salmon industry is leading the way in fish sustainability measures. According to New Zealand King Salmon chief executive Grant Rosewarne, the recent global sustainability report has praised the country profusely. The report called, โGlobal Salmon Initiative Sustainabilityโ also carried several key social and environmental data on salmon companies worldwide and made an in-depth comparative study.
The reportโs release in New Zealand coincided with World Environment Day. The Marlborough salmon producer and CEO of King Salmon took the lead in releasing the inaugural Global Salmon Initiative Sustainability Report. It was originally launched at the Economistโs World Ocean Summit 2015 in Lisbon, Portugal.
- ยซ Previous Page
- 1
- โฆ
- 140
- 141
- 142
- 143
- 144
- โฆ
- 254
- Next Page ยป