The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the Vatican, and the Catholic maritime charity, Stella Maris, marked on Tuesday World Fisheries Day with a call for greater social protection for small-scale fishers and fish workers.
Last month, October 2023, Highly Pathogenic Avian Influenza (HPAI) was confirmed on Bird Island, South Georgia in the brown skua populations. Since then, a number of other cases of symptomatic birds and above baseline mortality have been reported to the Government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI).