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Actions Taken by States and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and Arrangements to Give Effect to Paragraphs 83 to 90 of General Assembly Resolution 61/105 of 8 December 2006 on Sustainable Fisheries
21/08/2009
This report follows the UN General Assembly resolution 61/105, in which the General Assembly requested States and RFMOs and other fisheries bodies to ...
Corruption and Industrial Fishing in Africa
01/12/2008
Africas marine resources are increasingly in demand and are gaining in geopolitical importance. Competition between key fishing nations for access and ...
2007-2008 Another two years of wide spread IUU fishing in the Mediterranean
17/11/2008
The authors claim this briefing provides more evidence of the failure of ICCAT Contracting Parties to save bluefin tuna from collapse. This paper is t ...
Environmental Crime - a Threat to our Future
10/10/2008
The authors set out how organised environmental crime poses a growing threat, yet remains a low priority for the enforcement community. This report sh ...
Lifting the Lid on Italy's Bluefin Tuna Fishery
07/10/2008
This WWF-commissioned report documents what the authors refer to as Italys widespread disregard of fisheries management rules for Mediterranean bluefi ...
Italian Driftnets: Illegal Fishing Continues
09/06/2008
Subtitled 'Results of the Oceana 2007 Campaign' this report has been produced in collaboration with Italian organisation Marevivo, on the co ...
Illegal Fishing in Arctic waters
15/04/2008
The Arctic Ocean is home to some of the most outstanding marine ecosystems and most productive fisheries in the world. The Barents Sea cod fishery and ...
Race for the Last Bluefin: Capacity of the Purse Seine Fleet Targeting Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean
12/03/2008
WWF states that the Atlantic bluefin tuna (BFT) fishery has been exposed to rampant overfishing inside the entire ICCAT Convention Zone, namely the At ...
Seafood Supply Chain Management: Methods to Prevent Illegally-Caught Product Entry into the Marketplace
07/01/2008
This paper analyses approaches to supply chain management in the global seafood market, and uses this analysis to make recommendations for better mana ...
Addressing Corruption in Pacific Island Fisheries
01/01/2008
This paper examines fisheries corruption in the Pacific Islands in three specific areas: licensing, access negotiations and monitoring and enforcement ...
When Bad Gets Worse: Corruption and Fisheries
01/01/2008
This paper explore corruption at different stages of fisheries management, illustrated with case studies, and proposes several suggestions on how to m ...
Trading Tails: Linkages Between Russian Salmon Fisheries and East Asian Markets
13/11/2007
This report claims that East Asian countries are importing between 50 and 90% more Russian Sockeye salmon than Russia is reporting as caught. Possible ...
Pirate Booty: How ICCAT is Failing to Curb IUU Fishing
09/11/2007
This report exposes what the authors perceive as the weakness of current regulations governing tuna fisheries and the widespread occurrence of IUU fis ...
Enmeshed: Australia and Southeast Asia‘s Fisheries
07/11/2007
Southeast Asia‘s oceans are fast running out of fish, putting the livelihoods of up to 100 million people at risk, leading to more illegal incurs ...
The Plunder of BlueFin Tuna in the Mediterranean & East Atlantic During 2006-2007
31/10/2007
This report follows on from a similar one covering the period 2003-04. The author ex ...
Behind the Faade: A Decade of Inaction on Non-Target Species in Southern Bluefin Tuna Fisheries
11/10/2007
This report exposes what the authors describe as ‘ten years of inaction‘ by the members of the Commission for the Conservation of Southern B ...
WWF Mid-Term Review of the EU Common Fisheries Policy
04/10/2007
The report examines progress of the reformed Common Fisheries Policy half way through its mandate (2002–2012). It shows that the majority of Euro ...
Pirate Fish on Your Plate
01/08/2007
This report exposes the link between consumers in the UK and illegal or ‘pirate’ fishing vessels operating off West Africa that are decimati ...
Illegal Driftnetting in the Mediterranean
11/07/2007
This report reveals that the tourist’s taste for swordfish is wiping out the species and damaging the marine environment. Swordfish is a quintes ...
Contribution to the Hearing on Bluefin Tuna: Fisheries Committee of the EU Parliament
26/06/2007
This paper focuses on the work carried out by the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior in the waters South of Malta during summer 2007. The document expose ...
European Trawlers are Destroying the Oceans
13/03/2007
This report examines the practices of the European Union fishing fleet, which is made up of almost 100,000 vessels, fishing in EU waters and internati ...
Witnessing the Plunder 2006
08/03/2007
This report focuses on exposing the high levels of illegal fishing in waters of Guinea and explains how fish finds its way to the port of Las Palmas. ...
The Netherlands: a pirate fishers‘ paradise
08/02/2007
In 2006 thousands of tonnes of illegally caught cod was landed in the Netherlands. Research by Greenpeace between January and June, 2006, has shown th ...
The Mismanagement of the Bluefin Tuna Fishery in the Mediterranean
15/11/2006
It is Greenpeace‘s view that the the lack of controls in the Mediterranean region means that bluefin tuna are facing very serious conservation pr ...
The Use of Driftnets by the Moroccan fleet
01/11/2006
As part of its 2006 campaign, Oceana travelled for three months on board Oceana Ranger research vessel in order to document and report the most signif ...
The Plunder of Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean and East Atlantic in 2004 and 2005: Uncovering the Real Story
31/05/2006
WWF has been monitoring the rise of tuna farming activities in the Mediterranean since their beginning, particularly addressing how the rapid expansio ...
Party to the Plunder: Illegal Fishing in Guinea and its Links to the EU
01/03/2006
Illegal fishing by foreign trawlers in Guinea’s coastal zone is widespread and increasing, despite the attention that has been focussed on illega ...
Las Palmas: Port of Convenience and Gateway to Europe
30/01/2006
This is a briefing paper about an investigation by EJF of Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, the Spanish port that the organisation claims serves as ‘a ...
22/06/2010
Whaling Commission meeting opens in a swirl of corruption claims
13/06/2010
Revealed: Japan’s bribes on whaling
13/06/2010
Japan accused of offering bribes in whale wars
10/06/2010
Illegal fishing crackdown not working
10/06/2010
"Pirate fishing" takes root off West African coast
01/04/2010
Pair trawling and the dangers to Sierra Leone’s marine resources
24/02/2010
Donsol Mayor appeals to PGMA in stopping illegal trawling
17/02/2010
Foreign policy: saving the sushi menu
23/01/2010
Sea Shepherd announces Mediterranean campaign for the bluefin tuna
21/01/2010
Oceana: Fish catches could be 80% higher if EU managed stocks sustainably, scientist find
25/12/2009
Fishing probe - minister canned
30/11/2009
A treaty on ice
21/11/2009
We're killing the oceans. Is it too late to save the seas that sustain us?
15/11/2009
ICCAT fails to protect critically endangered tuna—again
12/11/2009
Mediterranean bluefin catches continue to mock quotas and science
06/11/2009
Bluefin tuna on edge of extinction, environmentalists warn
24/10/2009
Illicit ‘looting’ of Mediterranean bluefin tuna is worth £2.7bn
05/09/2009
Political infighting threatens survival of the bluefin tuna
25/08/2009
Illegal fishing evades U.N. crackdown: study
24/08/2009
Somalia: Livelihoods - and lives - at risk in Puntland
30/07/2009
The murky waters of EU fisheries
29/06/2009
Oceana ask Nations to stop overfishing tunas and sharks
29/06/2009
Time to get serious for tuna nations
22/06/2009
Greenpeace activists attacked during protest against EU fishing vessel
22/06/2009
Policy transparency key to saving world's fisheries
15/06/2009
Oceana obtains evidence proving bluefin tuna is being caught illegally in Italy and Turkey
08/06/2009
Pirate fishing causing eco disaster and killing communities, says report
07/06/2009
World tuna stocks: falling, falling, falling
05/06/2009
It's not too late to save the tuna - The U.S. should step forward to stop exploitation of the seas
04/06/2009
Study: Illegal fishing harming present and future New England groundfish fisheries
02/06/2009
Film warns of 'world without fish'
01/06/2009
These are not the mariners of old but pirates who make bureaucrats blanch
31/05/2009
Nearly 60% of Maltas shark species threatened with extinction
11/05/2009
The suicidal tendencies of the Turkish tuna fishery
17/04/2009
Poachers bribing border guard staff
15/04/2009
The EU responsible for the collapse of bluefin tuna
14/04/2009
Overfishing to wipe out bluefin tuna: WWF
04/02/2009
World's major fishing nations failing on sustainability: Scientists grade 53 major fishing nations on how they comply with UN's voluntary code of conduct
01/02/2009
Illegal fishing must be tamed
06/01/2009
The two piracies in Somalia: why the world ignores the other
12/12/2008
Another fisheries commission throws the science overboard
10/12/2008
Environmental crimes - A walk on the wild side
28/11/2008
ICCAT tuna quota reductions not enough: environmentalists
27/11/2008
Bluefin tuna - magnificent fish too valuable to save
26/11/2008
'Euro bullying over fishing quotas means end for Atlantic bluefin tuna'
25/11/2008
Higher quotas will push Atlantic tuna closer to collapse, campaigners warn
14/11/2008
Europe sits on damning bluefin tuna report
13/11/2008
Gone fishing: The European Commission is accused of withholding embarrassing data
09/11/2008
Town officials accused of illegal fishing
07/11/2008
Overfishing threatens European bluefin tuna
06/11/2008
Sharks in trouble after nations fail to create sustainable management programs
30/10/2008
Managed to death: If nothing is done soon, the bluefin tuna will disappear from the Mediterranean
14/10/2008
Closure call for tuna 'disgrace'
07/10/2008
Italy in flagrant flouting of tuna rules
12/09/2008
Mexican "fishing mafia" tagged for three illegal catches
03/09/2008
Alarm over trawling on Kenyan waters
01/09/2008
Thousands of sharks caught by European fleets are not reported to fisheries management organisations says Oceana
29/08/2008
Fishermen blame N-Delta militancy on fishery neglect
29/08/2008
Fishermen accuse government of deceit
27/08/2008
Big fish in a small pond
27/08/2008
Overfishing pushes Baltic cod to brink of economic extinction
26/08/2008
Rich countries once used gunboats to seize food. Now they use trade deals
25/08/2008
Scottish MEP hits out at the practice of discarding fish at sea
24/08/2008
Fishy is as fishy does
20/08/2008
Oceana exposes galician connections between cocaine, illegal fishing and shark catches
18/08/2008
Sidon fishermen cry foul over use of illegal fishing methods
11/08/2008
West Africa: Overfishing linked to food crisis, migration
08/08/2008
Orissa High Court seeks report on Olive turtles
06/08/2008
Some local execs receive bribes from commercial fishers
03/08/2008
Cagey business: Maltas tuna export figures don't add up
28/07/2008
Navy detains Thai fishing boat
27/07/2008
Japanese sushi rage threatens iconic Mediterranean tuna
26/07/2008
UN envoy decries illegal fishing, waste dumping off Somalia
16/07/2008
The fight to save our seas
07/07/2008
The tragic tale of the last tuna
01/07/2008
Spain admits underreporting 2007 bluefin catches by 35% - exceeding quota
27/06/2008
Chance to save cod stocks being lost
18/06/2008
EU cites flagrant abuse of bluefin tuna fisheries
17/06/2008
Greenpeace publishes criteria for red-listed seafood
11/06/2008
Study shows "worrying decline" in Med's shark species
10/06/2008
New marine protected areas report card gives Canada a failing grade
09/06/2008
Oceana appeals to Berlusconi's government to ban driftnets
05/06/2008
Paul Watson: 'There's no rest on planetary duty'
05/06/2008
Conservation groups hit at aerial help for tuna fishers
02/06/2008
Greenpeace targets Korean DongWon tuna catcher
02/06/2008
Cameroon: fishermen buying fish
02/06/2008
Overfishing turning sea-beds into wastelands, warns food journalist
30/05/2008
Greenpeace educates tuna industry on how to make more money
28/05/2008
Greenpeace protests against Spanish tuna ship
26/05/2008
Despite ban, twin trawlers fish freely
22/05/2008
Tuna crisis: WWF urges immediate closure of Med fishery
20/05/2008
Investigation ordered into Greenpeace claims of stolen Japanese whale meat
19/05/2008
'Scientific' whale meat scandal exposed, Greenpeace claims
18/05/2008
Iran triggers £4m rush for caviar
16/05/2008
WWF calls for area closures to save bluefin tuna
16/05/2008
Pirate vessels looting Mediterranean tuna
14/05/2008
NGOs lodge concern over bluefin tuna pirate fishing
14/05/2008
WWF accuses Malta of bluefin tuna piracy
14/05/2008
Oceana continues campaign against illegal driftnets
12/05/2008
Blasting audit report on Argentinas Fisheries Secretariat
11/05/2008
How the world's oceans are running out of fish
11/05/2008
Somalia: Much talk of pirates, little mention of environmental destruction
10/05/2008
Greenpeace accuses Philippine ships [of] transfer[ing] tuna at high seas
08/05/2008
Now the Kiwis get involved in fish plundering too
08/05/2008
Caspian Basin: no way to halt sturgeon poaching
07/05/2008
Greenpeace confiscates "wall of death" net in the Med
05/05/2008
Greenpeace frees ocean life from Pacific longliner
03/05/2008
Greenpeace clashes with Taiwan fishing boat
28/04/2008
Greenpeace declares war on illegal tuna fishery
28/04/2008
Tanzania: top government officials take blame on illegal fishing
23/04/2008
Greenpeace stages tuna protest at Brussels show
22/04/2008
Activists tackle tuna fishers in Pacific
21/04/2008
Greenpeace activists paint stern of US fishing vessel
18/04/2008
Who finances and who promotes the disappearance of bluefin tuna?
17/04/2008
Greenpeace takes action to end overfishing of Pacific tuna
15/04/2008
Illegal cod fishing in Arctic threatening fisheries: WWF
08/04/2008
Still no arrests of illegal fishers
04/04/2008
The turtle story
25/03/2008
Tuna talks look to cut down on overfishing
18/03/2008
Scientists hope aquaculture will save bluefin tuna
12/03/2008
Bloated Mediterranean tuna fleet in race for the last bluefin
25/02/2008
Turtle toll blame on govt: environmentalist wants mortality check
05/02/2008
High seas drama - Pacific islands question need for Tuna Commission
03/02/2008
Police help sought for turtle protection
31/01/2008
The fishing crisis - is anybody listening?
30/01/2008
Corruption in fishing industry rampant, study says
30/01/2008
Fleet is operating sustainably say fishing leaders
29/01/2008
Turf war hurting fisheries: report
29/01/2008
Corruption in fisheries from bad to worse
28/01/2008
A fifth of world's fish landings 'are illegal'
21/01/2008
Until all the fish are gone
15/01/2008
Europe's appetite for seafood propels illegal trade
15/01/2008
Europe: looking for fishy partners
14/01/2008
Europe takes Africa's fish, and boatloads of migrants follow
31/12/2007
Live fish shipment busted in Palawan airport
27/12/2007
Caviar: The black market in black gold
19/12/2007
Greenpeace talks of “tuna rip-off” and proposes its own rescue plan
19/12/2007
Fisheries Council falls short on shark limits, says coalition
19/12/2007
Cod recovery plan goes adrift, says WWF
19/12/2007
Sushi sales and shrinking stocks
17/12/2007
Greenpeace day early in bid to bar ministers
17/12/2007
The EU fishes for sustainable seas
13/12/2007
Tuna Commission stalemate hurting Pacific, official warns
13/12/2007
Can fish fish themselves? Only in one of the European Union‘s maddest schemes
13/12/2007
Cod hits world record price
12/12/2007
Distant nations block tuna conservation measures
12/12/2007
“Fishery law provides grounds for lawlessness”
07/12/2007
Greenpeace calls for retailer responsibility after tuna commission "fails" to protect
05/12/2007
Commission accepts withering criticism of CFP
05/12/2007
Oceana publishes damning shark report
05/12/2007
EU fish policy: More holes than a trawlerman‘s net
04/12/2007
Auditors deliver damning criticism of EU fisheries regime
29/11/2007
EU proposes increased cod quotas
26/11/2007
Top commentator attacks EU ‘fishing crime‘
25/11/2007
Fishing quotas are an ecological catastrophe
21/11/2007
Africa: And then there were no fish
21/11/2007
Turning a blind eye to bigeye tuna, warns WWF/TRAFFIC
20/11/2007
NGOs say current quotas put tuna stocks at risk
19/11/2007
‘No cuts‘ for Mediterranean tuna
16/11/2007
Med sharks and rays threatened by extinction
15/11/2007
Earth log: Charles Clover‘s weekly column takes an inside look at the environment
14/11/2007
Illegally caught salmon from Russia shipped to United States
13/11/2007
Russian salmon figures don’t add up, says report
09/11/2007
Greenpeace warns time and tuna are running out
09/11/2007
Fishing ban needed to save Mediterranean bluefin tuna
07/11/2007
Immediate ban needed to save bluefin tuna
06/11/2007
Bluefin tuna overfishing ‘still rampant‘
06/11/2007
WWF: Tuna trade data mismatch in Spain
02/11/2007
An eye-opening look at endangered sharks
01/11/2007
Tuna fishing quota violators targeted in report
24/10/2007
Japanese tuna scandal starts to bite
22/10/2007
Greenpeace demands closure of bluefin tuna fishery
17/10/2007
Last rites for a marine marvel?
17/10/2007
WWF calls for moratorium on Mediterranean tuna
11/10/2007
Tuna fishing fleets in the Pacific pose danger to wildlife at sea
11/10/2007
WWF: Web of "fraud" in bluefin fishery
10/10/2007
Report slams fish policy
04/10/2007
Fishing quotas undermine EU Common Fisheries Policy
26/09/2007
Greenpeace warns retailers over "stolen" tuna
21/09/2007
EU admits to illegal tuna fishing
21/09/2007
Bluefin tuna fishery closing may be too little too late
17/09/2007
Russian PM tilts at corruption in fish industry
03/09/2007
Russian PM takes on corruption in fish industry
16/08/2007
Bing’s lieutenant tagged ‘illegal fishing protector’
10/08/2007
New fishing rules coming
10/08/2007
Illegal fishing: Nigeria loses $60m annually
08/08/2007
Mayor‘s bodyguards off the hook
08/08/2007
Fishing frenzy drives tuna down by 40%
07/08/2007
Ecuador frees activist, halts expulsion
07/08/2007
Tuna ranching said to be involved with Mafia, illegal immigrant trafficking
06/08/2007
Atlantic bluefin going way of northern cod
06/08/2007
Flex muscles vs. illegal fishing, mayor urged
02/08/2007
Traders launch legal action against Executive over ‘black‘ fish landings
02/08/2007
Tupas, police to look into mayor‘s ‘grip‘ on illegal fishing
01/08/2007
‘Illegal "pirate" fish is ending up in Britain‘
01/08/2007
Link between UK consumers and African pirate fishing, claims report
19/07/2007
Indonesian waters open to poaching, looting
03/07/2007
EU trawlers are ‘poaching fish in SA waters‘
28/06/2007
Illegal bluefin tuna fishing carries on
25/06/2007
US accuses Europe of overfishing tuna in Atlantic
22/06/2007
The great Mediterranean tuna massacre
21/06/2007
Mediterranean countries fail again to protect bluefin tuna
15/06/2007
EU fleet caught fishing illegally one day into bluefin tuna recovery plan
07/06/2007
Illegal fishing – Slipping through the governance net
29/05/2007
Oceana releases the footage of illegal fishing activities that the French driftnetters tried to avoid being taken
23/05/2007
Oceana fishery research vessel attacked by fleet of French driftnetters
16/05/2007
Greenpeace demands the immediate closure of the bluefin tuna fishery
Eliminating Illegal Driftnets from the Mediterranean
01/04/2008
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