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Seaspiracy: Viewers react to controversial Netflix documentary about global fishing industry
April 1, 2021

Viewers are reacting to Netflix’s new original documentary Seaspiracy, which sets out to explore the damage being done to marine life such as sharks, dolphins and whales by the global fishing industry.

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Report finds gaps in RFMOs’ measures targeting eradication of tuna IUU. Source -https://www.seafoodsource.com/
Report finds gaps in RFMOs’ measures targeting eradication of tuna IUU
April 1, 2021

The global fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated tuna-fishing activities has been slowed by significant gaps in the implementation of proposed counter-measures by five tuna regional fishery management organizations (RFMOs), according to a new report by the International Sea

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Two large fish-aggregating devices sit on the deck of a tuna purse-seine fishing vessel. Among the components are used salt bags, which are made of plastic. Photo: Francisco Blaha.
Tighter controls on the way for plastic pollution in the WCPO
March 19, 2021

Pacific island countries are behind a study to gauge the amount of plastic waste that is dumped at sea by tuna fishing vessels working in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean (WCPO).

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Beam trawlers’ heavy chains are dragged along the seabed, releasing carbon into the seawater. Photograph: aphperspective/Alamy
Bottom trawling releases as much carbon as air travel, landmark study finds
March 19, 2021

Fishing boats that trawl the ocean floor release as much carbon dioxide as the entire aviation industry, according to a groundbreaking study.

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Amaltal was fined $27,000 for illegal fishing in a Kaikōura marine reserve. Credit - MARTIN DE RUYTER/STUFF
Amaltal fined $27,600 for bottom trawling in Kaikōura marine reserve
March 12, 2021

Nelson-based fishing company Amaltal has been fined $27,600 for illegal fishing in a marine reserve off the coast of Kaikōura. In November, the company...was found guilty of illegal fishing in the reserve, some months after the skipper was fined in May 2020 for his part in the fishing.

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A fisherman holds a batch of tuna in Kiribati, where fishing is one of the most common occupations, on Sept. 25, 2015. JONAS GRATZER/LIGHTROCKET VIA GETTY IMAGES
How Eight Pacific Island States Are Saving the World’s Tuna
March 11, 2021

They control the richest tuna waters on the planet, an area of the Pacific roughly one-and-a-half times the size of the United States. But 10 years ago, eight island states in whose waters most of the world’s canned tuna is fished were seeing almost none of the profits.

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Three Vietnamese blue boats moored at a Solomon Islands wharf for illegal fishing, March 2017. Non-compliance with licence conditions is a greater source of IUU fishing than illegal fishing. Photo: Pacific Guardians.
FFA study to enhance monitoring and lower risk of IUU fishing
March 5, 2021

For the first time, the volume and value of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing for tuna is being measured for the whole western and central Pacific Ocean (WCPO).

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A picture supplied by Greenpeace of coral being pulled up by a trawler. Photo: Greenpeace
News of coral destruction as New Zealand pushes for double orange roughy limit
February 5, 2021

New Zealand's bid to increase the amount of orange roughy commercial fishers can catch has hit a snag. It's been revealed one of NZ's deep sea trawlers has accidentally destroyed a large amount of coral and sea sponges, forcing the temporary closure of one area to fishing.

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The national security imperative to tackle illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. Source - https://www.brookings.edu/
The national security imperative to tackle illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing
January 29, 2021

Fishing, a $401 billion global industry, provides 20% of the protein intake for nearly half of the world’s population, and global fish consumption has been on the rise for almost 60 years.

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US President Joe Biden. Credit - AFP
Biden's "30 by 30" order could close-off 30 percent of US ocean to fishing
January 28, 2021

The administration of U.S. President Joe Biden announced on 27 January that the president plans to sign an executive order that commits to a “30 by 30” goal first envisioned in the Ocean-Based Climate Solutions Act that was introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020.

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