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Despite efforts to encourage adoption of social standards, WCPFC declines to take action By Share The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) annual meeting ended on Tuesday, 15 December, and while the members were lauded for agreeing to a rollover of its vital tropical tuna measure, the commission failed to address the human rights and labor issues regarding observer and and crew safety the tuna-fishing sector. Before its meeting, the WCPFC was lobbied by U.K. NGO Human Rights at Sea to adopt a CMM to address observer-related issues that include a lack of transparency ...

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 ...