The International Pole and Line Foundation (IPNLF) working in close collaboration with its local partner and IPNLF member, Asosiasi Perikanan Pole & Line dan Handline Indonesia (AP2HI), commended the highly focused, collaborative endeavours of multiple st...

The Minister of Foreign Affairs and International Cooperation in Guyana, Hugh Todd on Monday issued a protest note firmly condemning the illegal detention of the captains and crews of two Guyanese registered fishing vessels, and calling for their immediat...

The battered wooden “ghost boats” drift through the Sea of Japan for months, their only cargo the corpses of starved North Korean fishermen whose bodies have been reduced to skeletons. Last year more than 150 of these macabre vessels washed ashore in ...

The International Collective in Support of Fishworkers (ICSF) has just published the latest issue of SAMUDRA Report, its triannual journal on fisheries, communities and livelohoods. The current edition, SAMUDRA Report No. 84, dated December 2020, feat...

The second webinar on “Review of illegal fishing in APFIC region” is approaching. This webinar is a launch for the FAO/CSIRO review of illegal fishing in the APFIC Region. The findings of the review will be presented, together with the implicati...

Many developing countries at the World Trade Organization (WTO) have called for an exception or carve-out for artisanal fishing from the proposed disciplines in the Doha fisheries subsidies agreement, as well as sharply opposed attempts to bring non-viola...

Sri Lankan government has appointed a three-member committee which will make recommendations on measures to stop poaching by Indian fishermen inside the country's waters, the Ministry of Fisheries said on Tuesday, a week after four people were killed when...

The Japanese operator of a ship that leaked oil off the Mauritius Coast started to pay compensation to fishermen on Tuesday. A total of 25,000 US dollars will be paid to 50 fishermen, which amounts to 500 dollars each. In July the MV Wakashio ship r...

The Pakistan Maritime Security Agency saved 16 fishermen who were stranded at the open sea on Tuesday. According to a PMSA spokesperson, a boat from Karachi was stranded after the failure of its engine near Ormara. A fast response boat, which was patrolli...

Two tuna-fishing vessels have been seized in Vanuatu after being accused of engaging in illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities. The Dong Gang Xing 13 and Dong Gang Xing 16 – both built by a major Chinese tuna firm in 2018 and c...