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Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas turns up in international corruption scandal
The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der Plas (PP) is involved in a corruption affair concerning fish quotas in Namibia. This has emerged from research by research collective Spit for De Groene Amsterdammer. The Dutch fishing company Parlevliet & Van der...
Namibia Auctions Fishing Rights to Raise Money for Corona Virus
JOHANNESBURG - Namibia plans to auction the right to catch horse mackerel and hake off its coast to foreign fishing vessels to urgently raise money to fight the coronavirus pandemic. The country’s fisheries ministry on Monday announced plans to sell 60% of its...
Thailand: Video of Pregnant Whale Shark Killed by Fishermen Goes Viral
Facebook user ‘Go-Eco Phuket’ local conservation group yesterday (May 18) posted a video clip with 1.11 minutes long with a message read “#RIP whale shark mother at Phuket. Why catching small fish. Catching a big fish is better with its babies. Cr.Aqua centre.” The...
China Dumps Chemicals around Kalayaan Island to drive away Filipino fishermen
The Facebook page Kalayaan ATIN ITO revealed that China is aiming to cripple economic activities in order to push away civilians and leave the islands unoccupied. Once this happens, the Chinese apparently has plans to take control of the area and establish a military...
Trump Allows Commercial Fishing in Marine Conservation Area
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — President Donald Trump rolled back protections Friday at a marine conservation area off the New England coast, signing an order to allow commercial fishing in a stretch of water environmentalists say is critical for endangered right whales and...
The Chinese Paddlefish, Which Lived for 200 Million Years, Is Now Extinct
New research concludes the freshwater species likely disappeared between 2005 and 2010 due to human activity. China’s Yangtze River, the world’s third longest river, is home to 378 known species of fish. But the Chinese paddlefish, once a common freshwater fish in the...
How Chinese Trawlers Can Not Be Removed From Surinamese waters despite violations
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,...
Ghana: More trawlers on Ghana’s waters against dwindling stocks
Their worry is not only about the depletion of fish stocks, but the possible collapse of the entire fishing industry in the not so distant future. The fishers here are worried that the increasing number of industrial fishing vessels on Ghana’s waters is greatly contributing to the depletion of the stocks.
Fish and chip restaurant closes when owners witness depleted sea
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" with the...
Mexico: Customs agents seize 10 tonnes of shark fins in Manzanillo
toms agents in Manzanillo, Colima, have confiscated a large haul of illegal shark fins bound for the Philippines.
Great Britain: 100 Dead Sharks Wash Up With Their Fins Cut Off in Wales
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...
Indonesia sinks 51 fishing boats over illegal fishing
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...
Senegal Orders Two RPB 33 Patrol Boats From France
RPB 33 patrol boat France’s Raidco Marine has received an order from Senegal for the delivery of two more RPB 33 patrol boats, after the shipyard delivered a single RPB 33 in 2013. The contract was signed in 2018, but Senegal was only identified by Raidco as the...
An Army of Mega Trawlers is Plundering West African Waters RIGHT NOW
A fleet of over 15 mega trawlers (2000 tonnes and more) is now fishing in Senegalese and Guinee waters. All these vessels are located in a small area of only 100 km2. Just sitting on the coach I was playing with a new app I found in iStore. I did not expect it to work...
No fishing, No Exporting In April: Sierra Leone Authorities Enforce Ban
Authorities in Sierra Leone on Monday started implementing a one-month ban on fishing in the country’s territorial waters, in addition to halting of exports by major fishing companies, in a bid to shore up stocks. The government also decreed an April 1-30 halt to...
How the Depletion of Sardinella in Africa Resembles the Collapse of North Sea Herring
Fishermen who just keep on fishing, researchers who get behind the facts and national governments who do not feel like intervening. The mountain of fish that has just been dumped on the concrete floor by rusty trucks is smoldering under the bright sun that peeps...
EU Nations Authorized Their Vessels to Unlawfully Fish in African Waters
EU fishing unlawfully Africa For more than three years, European Union members states authorized unlawful fishing activities off the coast of Africa in contravention of common regional laws and policies, a new report shows. Oceana, the largest international advocacy...
France: Mass Grave With Hundreds Of Mutilated Dead Dolphins Found On Beach
Hundreds of mutilated, dead dolphins which had been caught in nets have been discovered on a beach in France. Thousands of the animals are accidentally caught by the offshore fishing industry each year. Many wash up on beaches on France’s Atlantic Coast, and are...
Dead Bronze Whaler Sharks Litter The Shores Of Gansbaai, South Africa
Dead Sharks Litter The Shores Of Gansbaai, South Africa On Tuesday the 5th March at 9 am, Anthony Fouche of Gansbaai documented the carcasses of eight large bronze whaler sharks at Die Plaat, Gansbaai. The Dead Bronze Whaler Sharks Litter The Shores Of Gansbaai, South...
China’s Fishing Fleet Could Start A War On The Oceans, US Navy Warns
Chinese fishing vessels are trawling the world’s oceans to feed their country’s appetite for seafood.That has brought those vessels into conflict with foreign coast guards and navies.In South America, it’s further straining countries’ resources and fisheries,...
How Pigs In China Are Killing People In Africa
These pictures were taken yesterday 10th of February 2019 in Tanji, The Gambia. Mountains of Bonga fish (Sardinella) are waiting next to the road to be transported and processed by the Chinese owned Golden Lead Factory in Gunjur. Since three years, this is happening...
Senegalese Fishermen Warn: EU Stop Fishing Or All Hell Will Break Loose
Senegalese fishermen are desperate and are warning the world that a civil war and a famine are just around the corner. Many of them are now considering piracy as a last resort. This is a serious warning to the European Union and West African governments. We are...
How vital fish stocks in Africa are being stolen from human mouths
Exclusive: With soaring meat consumption around the world, vital omega 3-rich fish stocks destined for human mouths in western Africa are being snatched by foreign food companies to feed factory-farmed animals – and ultimately the populations of...
SHOCKING RESEARCH: How The EU Robs Africa of Its Fish And Seafood
The flowery legalese of any Fishing Partnership Agreement always appears to secure the sustainability of the domestic fisheries involved but really this economic document is Brussels’ strategy for plundering the abundant undersea resources of Africa’s maritime states....
Gambia “Sustainable” Fishing Partnership Agreement in Numbers, Is it really Sustainable?
The raw facts on the EU-Gambia “Sustainable” Fishing Partnership Agreement (SFPA) do not make good reading for Gambia’s local fishing industry and Gambians at large. Instead of Gambia’s Fisheries Ministry agreeing on a deal to bring home €33,381,000 over six years at...
Shark numbers in Australian waters have dropped by 92%
Sharks have been around for 425 million years — some 200 million years before dinosaurs emerged, and just before trees developed as a plant group. But their long tenure as apex predators might be coming to an end, at the hand of a regular culprit: humans. It is...
How Gambia Is Selling Its Tuna For 136 Euro Per Ton To The EU
Gambia made a deal with the EU last Friday to sell 3300 tons of its tuna for only 136 euro per ton. Meanwhile, the EU Fish Price Report values tuna at 1.290 € per ton. Journalist Yusuf Taylor is making shocking calculations and able to ask some questions, you will not...
Ocean Shock: Fishmeal Factories Plunder Africa
This is part of "Ocean Shock," a Reuters series exploring climate change's impact on sea creatures and the people who depend on them. Greyhound Bay was once a place where old ships came to die. A wild stretch of coast on the western edge of the Sahara, its shallows...
GAMBIA: JXYG Fishmeal Factory Resume Operations
The JXYG Fishmeal Factory in Kartong, has resumed operations one month now. As readers can recall, the factory was closed down after they were accused by members of the community and Government, for discharging toxic waste into the Ocean. According to sources, the...
Is Gambia ready to combat illegal fishing?
Illegal fishing activities is a global concern. The Gambia government said they will leave no stone un turned to combat these illegal fishing activities known as IUU. It’s said that 90% of the world’s fish are either overfished or fully exploited and 23 billion...
Fishmeal factories in the Gambia
This is a mini documentary about the Chinese invasion of fishmeal factories in the Gambia seen through the eyes of the locals.
