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Stakeholders in the maritime and fishing industry have given their consent to the ratification of two international protocols meant to regulate the operations of fishing vessels and working conditions of their crew members.
The protocols are the Cape Town Agreement (CTA) of 2012, designed by the International Maritime Organisation (IMO), and the C188 Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 of the International Labour Organisation (ILO).
While the CTA seeks to set out a mandatory safety requirement for fishing vessels, the ILO Convention on fishing intends to regulate working conditions of fishers in the industry.
“Although in merchant shipping there are a lot of regulations in the country on the safety and welfare of vessels and the people who work in them, the situation is not the same in the fishing industry, hence the need for the ratification of the two conventions,” the acting Director in charge of Maritime Services at the
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Taiwan Fishery Agency responds to US DoL blacklisting
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Taiwan’s fishing authorities have responded to being placed on a U.S. government blacklist by listing a series of measures it introduced in the past year to combat forced labor.
In October 2020, the U.S. Labor Department placed Taiwan on its 2020 List of Goods Produced by Child Labor or Forced Labor. In response, Taiwan’s Fisheries Agency has ordered the country’s Department of Transport to ensure that all vessels than 24 meters and longer in length must comply with the International Labour Organization’s Convention 188, also known as the 2007 Work in Fishing Convention. Additionally, Taiwan has added forced labor to its requirements for reporting of cases of human trafficking among foreign crew aboard Taiwanese vessels, it said in a statement to SeafoodSource.