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Industry support VMS to monitor Commonwealth fisheries
The Australian Fisheries Management Authority (AFMA) is pleased to announce that vessel monitoring system (VMS) compliance from Commonwealth fisheries reached a peak of 99.4% as a result of AFMA’s recent zero-tolerance campaign.
The effort from industry during a recent campaign targeting VMS non-compliance, including failure to have a fully functioning VMS and failure to seek approval to switch off the VMS unit, demonstrated that Australia’s Commonwealth fishers are committed to supporting well-monitored fisheries.
Throughout the month AFMA received 13 Temporary Switch Off applications, seven fishers were referred for follow up by AFMA’s domestic compliance team and one operator was ordered to return to port to rectify their VMS unit.
The Indian Ocean yellowfin tuna stock is teetering on the verge of collapse and some experts say the EU, which has profited the most from the fishery over decades, should do more to save it.
EU-controlled ships, including those flagged to smaller coastal states like Seychelles, haul in the lion’s share of Indian Ocean tuna, supplying a market worth billions of dollars.
Overfishing by these vessels, and the EU’s less-than-ambitious proposal to restore the yellowfin stock, has led to allegations of a “neo-colonial” plunder of resources that many developing nations depend on.
This is the first story in a two-part series about the effect European tuna fishing has on the economy and marine environment of Seychelles, an archipelagic nation in the Indian Ocean.
Shark and ray populations in the world s oceans have plunged 71 per cent since 1970, according to a global study published today, prompting calls for urgent reform in fishing practices and seafood labelling. Researchers from James Cook and Charles Darwin universities contributed to the Nature study, which revealed that of 31 oceanic species of sharks and rays studied, 24 are now threatened with extinction, and three are critically endangered. Adjunct Professor at James Cook University Adjunct Professor Colin Simpfendorfer told News Corp Australia the decline was akin to the collapse in global whale numbers that occurred before most nations stopped whaling in the 1980s.