Max Schmid News Today

A presentation from the 2023 Seafood Expo North America investigating seafood traceability.

As a new report lays bare the massive financial costs to developing states of illegal fishing, campaigners are hoping that drawing attention to the practice’s devastating economic effects will help push governments to greater action against the illicit trade.

As a new report lays bare the massive financial costs of illegal fishing, campaigners are hoping the findings will spur governments to act against it.

The notorious ISRAR fleet has been blacklisted by the government of Oman after an investigation by EJF, the latest in a long line of blacklistings.

Oman has struck off a fleet of vessels that has been fishing illegally across the Atlantic and the Indian Ocean from its registry. The decision follows years of investigations conducted by the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF), a non-governmental organisation based in the United Kingdom, and will severely restrict the ability of the fleet to carry out further illegal fishing.

China’s distant-water fishing fleet eclipses that of other nations, and so does its rap sheet, according to the authors of a recent report based mainly on data released by China. Distant-water fishing, with vessels that travel the globe hunting seafood on the high seas and in other countries’ waters, is a notoriously opaque and poorly […]

The Environmental Justice Foundation reports on the destructive, unregulated, and illegal operations of China’s deep-water fishing fleet.

It’s the classic postcard image of Ghana: brightly colored, narrow wooden fishing boats pulling into the dock of seaside village, bringing in the daily catch. But increasingly this way of life is under threat, with a new investigation showing how Chinese vessels engaged in illegal fishing are depleting stocks, sometimes even selling the fish back…

China’s massive distant-water fleet is responsible for illegal fishing, environmentally unsustainable practices and human rights issues on and off the boat in Ghana, according to a new investigation

Matthias Ries organisierte eine Hilfsaktion für den jungen Mann aus Katzdorf, der 2019 einen schweren Motorradunfall hatte.