Tag: Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported (IUU)

• Saturday, August 20th 2022 - 09:55 UTC

  UK launches new National Maritime Security Strategy; complements the £4 billion shipbuilding industry support

  

  Last week, on 15 August, the UK launched a new maritime strategy that sets out how the UK will enhance its capabilities in technology, innovation, and cyber security.

• Tuesday, August 3rd 2021 - 06:32 UTC

  Blue Belt Program launches Training Platform for UK Overseas Territories

  

  The Blue Belt Program has launched a comprehensive online training platform for the UK Overseas Territories. This will provide training and development of skills across a wide range of marine management themes, free of charge.

• Friday, January 1st 2021 - 22:41 UTC

  South Atlantic area of global contention? US Coast Guard off to South America to patrol for IUU fishing

  

  The following piece by Gidget Fuentes in USNI News offers an account of the mission of USCGC (WMSL/758) Stone, fresh from Shipyard and Quarantine, and which departed Mississippi on 22 December for Southern Atlantic Patrol:

• Thursday, July 23rd 2020 - 09:37 UTC

  Argentina joins Pacific coastal nations to combat IUU fishing

  

  Argentine specialized media is reporting that OPRA, a regional cooperation agreement, Organization for the Protection of Fisheries Resources in the South Atlantic has signed an accord with their Pacific counterpart, Calamasur, which is a Committee for the Sustainable Management of the giant squid in the South Pacific.

• Monday, December 11th 2017 - 01:48 UTC

  Fishing subsidies to be on the WTO summit table in Buenos Aires

  

  Meeting for the first time in Latin America, the World Trade Organization’s 11th Ministerial Conference will take place in Buenos Aires from 10-13 December. Central to this year’s talks will be an international deal to curb harmful fishing subsidies. These are government payments or tax breaks that contribute to overcapacity, overfishing and illegal fishing (IUU) globally.

• Monday, October 30th 2017 - 10:45 UTC

  UK’s work on protecting the oceans has won deserved praise – now we must go further

  

  By Matthew Offord MP for Hendon - UK leadership on ocean conservation has won international acclaim. The landmark “Blue Belt” policy to work with the UK Overseas Territories to “create the largest marine sanctuaries anywhere in the world” has only furthered this standing, with commitments to create large protected areas around Ascension Island and Tristan da Cunha in 2019 and 2020 respectively already widely welcomed.

• Wednesday, June 7th 2017 - 08:58 UTC

  FAO meets in Oslo to discuss agreement on ports and IUU fishing

  

  The Agreement on Port State Measures (PSMA) to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, an international treaty aimed at stopping rogue fishing practices, gives the world “all the instruments necessary to achieve our goal,” FAO Director-General Jose Graziano da Silva said.

• Tuesday, January 31st 2017 - 11:19 UTC

  Spanish Supreme Court ruling on IUU toothfish operations rattles legal industry

  

  According to reports in the Spanish press, the case against Vidal Armadores, the beneficial owners of a fleet of vessels operating at various times fishing for toothfish in the Southern Ocean collapsed on a point of law.

• Friday, December 2nd 2016 - 09:09 UTC

  New Zealand sends patrol vessel to help combat illegal fishing in Ross Sea

  

  Patrol vessel HMNZS Wellington departs on Sunday for the Southern Ocean from Dunedin to monitor the annual fishing season in the Ross Sea region in an attempt to stamp out illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the area.

• Wednesday, June 8th 2016 - 20:56 UTC

  Port state measures crucial weapon to support world's first illegal fishing treaty

  

  A groundbreaking international accord aimed at stamping out illegal fishing went into effect on Sunday and is now legally binding for the 29 countries and a regional organization that have adhered to it.