ADF STAFF Fisheries officials have long known that trawlers involved in illegal fishing turn off their automatic identification systems (AIS)…
Browsing: Illegal Fishing
ADF STAFF Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing continues to rob the Gulf of Guinea of precious fish stocks and…
ADF STAFF Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing continued to be a costly issue around the continent in 2022. That…
ADF STAFF Having overfished its own waters, China is sending its heavily subsidized industrial and semi-industrial trawlers to fisheries near…
ADF STAFF Collectively, Africa’s coastal countries are responsible for more than 13 million square kilometers of maritime territory, a huge…
ADF STAFF Longtime observers of illegal fishing say the practice of shark finning is among the most barbaric acts committed…
ADF STAFF One-third of vessels engaged in illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Africa are Chinese-owned, according to a…
ADF STAFF A new report by the Financial Transparency Coalition (FTC) reveals that 48.9% of the world’s industrial and semi-industrial…
ADF STAFF Somalia bolstered its plan to increase security along its 3,333-kilometer coastline in early October when it opened a…
ADF STAFF Africa loses about 100,000 tons of fish every year to illegal unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. A new…