The March 2013 issue of the CTA Agritrade fisheries newsletter is now online: http://agritrade.cta.int/en/Back-issues/Fisheries-News-update/2013/Fisheries-Newsletter-March-2013
It contains the following commented articles:
— PNA director questions PACP approach of EPA negotiations on fisheries
— Fiji Albacore tuna to get MSC certification, but will it be allowed on the EU market?
— Role of gender in global fishery value chains
— Chinese investors call for African governments to remove restrictions on fisheries’
— In setting quotas too high, EU Fisheries ministers allowed legalised overfishing’, says WWF
— Fisheries Committee calls for end to overfishing and discards
— NOAA identifies 10 countries, including in EU and ACP, that conducted IUU fishing
— Spanish processing sector wants EU doors to be closed to Thai canned tuna
— European Fisheries Technology Platform focuses on fishing vessels’ energy efficiency
— European Parliament Fisheries Committee takes a strong position on the future external policy
— European Parliament rapporteur rejects EUMauritania FPA, while Mauritanian fishers and Development Committee support it
— Various European fisheries sectors express their views about the EUMauritania FPA
— New protocol to EU Côte d’Ivoire Fisheries Partnership Agreement
— Namibia: Setting up of new fishing joint ventures raises concerns with existing players
— Interpol to get involved in fighting IUU fishing?