The research presents evidence that this production for use of global aquaculture supply chains is precipitating the collapse of stocks and compromising food security
The EU Long Distance Advisory Council (LDAC) and CFFA have published the report of the seminar on European fishing investments in third countries they jointly organized last May in Berlin, in the headquarters of the NGO Bread For the World.
At a COMHAFAT workshop held in Abidjan end of October, several regional and pan-African institutions and stakeholders discussed issues of transparency and economic spin-offs of current agreements.
In this Op-Ed, published first on EUobserver, former PECH MEP Isabella Lövin argues that the Common Fisheries Policy has all the provisions needed for Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements to successfully work as a “race to the top” rather than to the bottom.
The clock keeps ticking as the International Seabed Authority negociations for a mining code end without an agreement in Jamaica last March. Small-scale fisheries organisations from Africa and the Pacific ask for the precautionary approach
The FISH Safety Foundation recently published a report ‘Triggering Death, Quantifying the true human cost of global fishing’, which estimates that more than 100,000 persons involved in fishing are killed every year, a number four times higher than the fatalities estimated by ILO.
Around 20 small-scale fishers, men and women,from 6 continents gathered in Lisbon and jointly called to action” their governments to urgently implement 5 priority actions by 2030.
