MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Stories for May 18th 2015
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Monday, May 18th 2015 - 05:17 UTC
FAO's agenda includes fighting illegal fishing in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
In a global context of fierce competition for fishery resources which are progressively being depleted as a consequence of overfishing, overexploitation and overcapacity, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has become a growing concern, points out a FAO fisheries release.
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Monday, May 18th 2015 - 05:03 UTC
Falklands' Borders & Southern releases encouraging technical update of Darwin gas/condensate discovery
Borders & Southern has issued a technical update on its Darwin gas/condensate discovery south of the Falkland Islands and near-field prospectivity. The goal was to improve understanding of the Darwin reservoir interval, both within and surrounding the discovery and also its projected facies trend along the Aptian shelf
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Monday, May 18th 2015 - 04:55 UTC
Granger swears as Guyana's new president with a one seat majority in legislature
Former army brigadier David Granger was sworn in as Guyana's new president on Saturday after his multiracial opposition coalition narrowly won a national election, heralding a new chapter in the ethnically-divided.
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Monday, May 18th 2015 - 04:32 UTC
Massive turnout in Guatemala demanding president Perez Molina steps down
Thousands of Guatemalans took to the streets on Saturday, demanding the nation's President Otto Perez Molina leave office in the wake of a scandal that claimed his former Vice President Roxana Baldetti.
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Monday, May 18th 2015 - 04:19 UTC
Notorious poacher 'Perlon' detained in Malaysia with 330 tons of illegal toothfish
New Zealand fishing company Sanford is welcoming news that a Nigerian registered vessel has been detained in Malaysia and 330 tons of toothfish confiscated from it. Sanford is one of only two New Zealand companies permitted to source toothfish from the Ross Sea fishery.
