Pressure Mounting To Ban Fish Transshipment Throughout Pacific Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/28/2015 - 00:00 Better monitoring of chain of custody should suffice: Industry By Michael Neilson AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Pacific Scoop, Sept. 26, 2015) – Pressure is mounting to outlaw Pacific region transhipments – a practice linked to overfishing – after Nauru’s decision to impose a ban in its waters. This decision follows Greenpeace’s discovery of the Taiwanese longliner Shuen De Ching No. 888, which the environmental organisation claims had been fishing without permission near Nauru’s waters for two months. Along with an illegal amount of shark fins, Greenpeace said the logbook also showed an implausibly low catch of five tonnes, suggesting the vessel had been transferring undocumented fish to another ship.