Tag: illegal fishing

• Monday, December 12th 2022 - 18:29 UTC

  US sanctions Chinese companies and owners for human rights abuses and illegal fishing

  

  United States imposed sanctions on Chinese companies, including Nasdaq-listed Pingtan Marine Enterprises, Ltd., over what Washington says are human rights abuses linked to Beijing's illegal fishing.

• Monday, December 5th 2022 - 09:58 UTC

  Jiggers have started crossing from the Pacific to the Atlantic, reports Chilean Navy

  

  The Chilean Navy said it is keeping track of the international fishing fleet (mostly jiggers), transiting through the Magellan Strait from the Pacific to the Atlantic Ocean which started in November.

• Monday, September 12th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  New step to combat IUU fishing: FAO voluntary guidelines on transshipments

  

  A key intergovernmental forum on fisheries and aquaculture has endorsed new voluntary guidelines governing the transfer of fish between ships, in a move aimed at curbing the Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing that threatens the sustainability of global stocks.

• Wednesday, July 13th 2022 - 22:50 UTC

  Uruguay's DINARA requests additional data in Chinese jigger incident

  

  Uruguay's National Directorate of Aquatic Resources (DINARA) Chief Jaime Coronel has told reporters all the evidence submitted by Uruguayan Navy authorities was being analyzed in the case of a Chinese fishing trawler caught while performing illegal catches in territorial waters earlier this month.

• Thursday, July 7th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  Illegal fishing: there are more than 350 foreign vessels operating in the South West Atlantic, expert says

  

  Last Tuesday, 11 tons of squid were found in a Chinese flagged vessel that was captured by the Uruguayan Navy, after a chase that took place between Sunday night and early Monday morning.

• Tuesday, July 5th 2022 - 09:06 UTC

  Uruguayan Navy arrests Chinese jigger which tried to flee arrest

  

  The Uruguayan navy arrested Monday dawn a Chinese flagged jigger caught illegally fishing in the country's EEZ. The arrest was done following a night chase as the jigger tried to escape despite having first accepted a party of inspectors to board the vessel.

• Friday, April 15th 2022 - 21:15 UTC

  Greenpeace ship moors in Buenos Aires

  

  Greenpeace's Arctic Sunrise will be open to the public Sunday after mooring Thursday in the port of Buenos Aires. The vessel from the environmental organization returned to land from a mission to survey fishing exploitation in Atlantic Ocean international waters near the Argentine Sea.

• Friday, January 28th 2022 - 20:55 UTC

  Argentina's JMC has 431 foreign vessels on its radar

  

  Argentina's Joint Maritime Command (JMC) has denounced the presence of some 431 foreign boats near the country's South Atlantic territorial waters limit, it was reported. Around 80% of the vessels were said to be of Chinese origin.

• Saturday, December 18th 2021 - 09:22 UTC

  Argentina creates Joint Maritime Command to patrol national waters

  

  Argentine Defense Minister Jorge Taiana announced the creation of the Joint Maritime Command, which will be in charge of the permanent patrolling and monitoring of the Argentine sea.

• Wednesday, December 8th 2021 - 09:30 UTC

  Some 300 Chinese fishing vessels crossing Magellan Strait to the South Atlantic, Argentine report

  

  In a joint operation, the Argentine Navy and Coast Guard are monitoring and keeping track of an estimated 300 Chinese fishing vessels that are sailing from the Pacific to the South Atlantic across the Magellan Strait.