The research presents evidence that this production for use of global aquaculture supply chains is precipitating the collapse of stocks and compromising food security
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.
