Fisheries subsidies: Suggestions for improvements of WTO debate According to a recent article by ICTSD Director Rashid Sumaila, a key reason for the lack of progress in the fisheries subsidies negotiations at th... 21/07/2014
Discard ban implementation raises increasing criticisms A recent study in the scientific magazine Nature highlights that, on its own, the elimination of discards – a key measure agreed in the new EU Comm... 21/07/2014
Ghana and Seychelles will cooperate to boost tuna exports to the EU Seychelles and Ghana have signed an administrative agreement to boost their tuna exports towards the EU market. The agreement provides for the two... 21/07/2014
FAO adopts international guidelines for sustainable small-scale fisheries The 31st session of the Fisheries Committee (COFI 31) of the FAO was held 9–13 June 2014 in Rome. Prior to COFI 31, the FAO published the 2014 edit... 04/07/2014
The EU warns PNG and the Philippines that they are not doing enough to combat IUU fishing The European Commission (EC) has issued a warning to the Philippines and Papua New Guinea (PNG) that they risk being identified as non-cooperating... 04/07/2014
First international standard to be developed for environmentally and socially sustainable fisheries The French standardisation agency, Afnor (Agence française de normalisation), has suggested that there is a need to create an internationally recog... 04/07/2014
An international conference analyses the external dimension of the reformed CFP A recent report on the 2-day international conference held at the end of January 2014 in Stockholm discussed the implications of the CFP external d... 22/06/2014
Caribbean region closer to adopting a Common Fisheries Policy At the end of a 3-day forum of CARICOM leaders, the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM) emphasised that the region was closer to adopting... 22/06/2014
Mozambique evaluation study The EC published the ex post evaluation for the existing EU–Mozambique FPA protocol, which allows 43 purse seiners and 32 longliners to fish in the... 22/06/2014
Third-country flagged, Spanish-owned tuna vessels to abide by CFP standards for control The Spanish government and the Spanish Fisheries Confederation (CEPESCA) on behalf of Spanish tuna fishing associations (ANABAC and OPAGAC) have si... 15/06/2014