door Webmaster | sep 22, 2019 | China in Africa, Overfishing
Chinese vessels fishing illegally on west African coast The judge has decided that the Chinese trawlers, or fishing vessels, may not be removed from Surinamese waters awaiting a decision by the judge hearing the application for interim relief. Melvin Bouva,...
door Webmaster | aug 2, 2019 | Overfishing
Apam, a community in the Central Region, has gained prominence in Ghanaian society as a result of its fishing activities. Fishermen in this part of Ghana have enjoyed bumper harvests for many years. But now, they say the stocks are fast depleting. The sea that once...
door Webmaster | jul 9, 2019 | Overfishing
A fish and chip restaurant has closed after its owners were left shocked when they saw how depleted the sea was of fish while on a boating trip. A poster in the window of The Fish And The Chip, in St Nicholas Place, Leicester said it was “not comfortable”...
door Webmaster | mei 29, 2019 | Oceans, Overfishing
Customs agents in Manzanillo, Colima, have confiscated a large haul of illegal shark fins bound for the Philippines. The fins, about 10.4 tonnes in total, were estimated to have a value of nearly 4 million pesos (US $210,000). They were discovered in 509 crates during...
door Webmaster | mei 23, 2019 | Oceans, Overfishing
Up to 100 sharks washed up dead on a beach in Wales, with some suspecting foul play. A video posted on Facebook showed the sharks strewn across the beach in Carmarthenshire, Wales, with the woman who filmed the clip estimating around 100 dead sharks on the...
door Webmaster | mei 5, 2019 | Oceans, Overfishing
Workers flood the cargo bay of a Vietnamese-flagged boats with water to sink it in the waters off Datuk Island, West Kalimantan, Indonesia, Saturday, May 4, 2019. Authorities sank 51 foreign fishing boats caught operating illegally in the Indonesian waters as it...