David Cameron vetoes #Rockall fishing agreement between Scotland & Ireland
Despite #Irish & Scottish governments spending 2 years agreeing to the deal – #fisheries are a devolved power – it has been shut down by the Foreign Office
Sources said the reason was entirely political - UK Govt didn't want to be seen agreeing a deal with an #EU nation
The veto is latest example of #Westminster overruling devolved #Scottish government decisions
Members of the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission, the intergovernmental body that regulates fishing for tuna and tuna-like species in the region, met May 13-17 in Bangkok.
Although a decision on reining in catches of yellowfin tuna, which has been declared overfished for the past nine years, was perhaps the most anticipated move of the meeting, delegates failed to reach any such agreement.
The terrible thing about these organized crime #poaching operations of highly threatened American Eel #elvers is that because they were seized at the airport DFO can't return them to the location the were captured, so they have to be destroyed. At 107 kg of weight this translates out to about 1.3 million elver glass eels. This is a terrible loss to their threatened populations. #fisheries#SpeciesAtRisk#eel https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/toronto-ont-elver-seizure-1.7208615
Samuel Abayateye, a 38-year-old father of two, was working as a fisheries observer when he was reported missing from his assigned vessel in October 2023.
Five months later, Abayateye’s family said they still haven’t received any information from the authorities investigating the case, or the results of a DNA test to confirm the identity of the body.
Many of India’s more than 4 million fishers are sailing beyond the country’s exclusive economic zone into the high seas in search of a better catch.
Rising sea surface temperatures, overfishing near the shore, and the destruction of reefs have decimated nearshore fisheries, forcing India’s fishers farther out to sea where they face greater risk.
Crabs, kelp and mussels: Argentina’s waters teem with life – could a fish farm ban do the same for Chile?
While the ecosystem is thriving off the coast of Argentina, the proliferation of salmon farms in Chile’s waters is threatening marine life, say critics
The Chinese fishing fleet is responsible for systemic illegal fishing and human rights abuses in countries bordering the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO), undercutting China’s claims of supporting sustainable development and thriving blue economies in the region, according to a new report published today by the Environmental...
"The latest research finds the Gulf Stream has warmed faster than the global ocean over the past two decades, and has shifted toward the #AtlanticCoast.
"Scientists say the ocean current, which carries tropical water up the #EasternSeaboard, has warmed two degrees Fahrenheit since 2001 and could be pushing warmer water into the #GulfOfMaine.
"Robert Todd, an associate scientist with the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, said years of data collection confirm what climate models predicted.
"'Long-term ocean observing really is important,' said Todd, 'and we need to keep making those observations so we can understand what’s actually happening in the climate system.'
"Todd said #OceanTemperatures are steadily rising as a result of human activities. He said the findings could determine how changes in the Gulf Stream will impact Maine’s coastal industries.
"The Woods Hole study relied on more than 25,000 ocean temperature and salinity observations collected through the Argo Program — an array of some 4,000 floating robots throughout the global ocean.
"In addition, underwater gliders have slowly navigated the Gulf Stream — revealing warm rings of water, which Todd says could enter the Gulf of Maine and alter marine #environments and species.
"'You can imagine if you have an organism that likes cold water, and suddenly the water is a whole lot warmer because this ring was there,' said Todd, 'those organisms might not be there anymore or might suffer — and then, the fisheries associated with that would suffer.'
"The Gulf of Maine — which stretches from #CapeCod in #Massachusetts to #NovaScotia, #Canada — is already considered one of the fastest-warming ocean regions on the planet.
"Todd said the data collected is shared in real time with scientists around the world."
A #BritishColumbia fisherman has caught a large fine - $250,000 - for a series of #violations under the #Fisheries Act and against Pacific Fisheries Regulations after he was found to have set prawn traps in a protected glass sponge reef area near #Sechelt.
Fishery officer Bill van Egteren said he’s “pretty sure this is precedent-setting for commercial prawn fishing violations.”
#Africa’s #Hunger Crisis Deepens as War, Climate Pile on Pain
"The region of 1.2 billion people, which is home to many of the world’s poorest communities, suffered badly as food and fuel prices surged following Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine. Its farmers have also been battered by #ExtremeWeather events, including droughts and flooding linked to #ClimateChange, further pressuring prices by disrupting food supplies."
"#Food production is highly vulnerable to the effects of the #climate crisis, with research suggesting that as much as a third of global food could be at risk from global heating.
The targets include:
reducing #methane emissions from #livestock by 25%;
ensuring all the world’s #fisheries are sustainably managed;
safe and affordable drinking #water for all;
halving #FoodWaste;
eliminating the use of traditional biomass for cooking.
All by 2030.
817,000 wild #fish — nearly all of them #herring — were reported killed in open-net pen fish farm operations in 2022. Almost five-fold increase from 2021 & 21-fold increase from 2020.
Happy to host Polina Rusanova, between Oct 2023 and Jan. 2024, for her #PhD internship. Her thesis title is "Moving towards a sustainable use of #fisheries resources: Nutritional quality, #contaminants, #bioactive compounds, and new bycatch based #food", Università Di #Palermo, Italy.
One outlet I used to write with, which claims to focus on #environment and even has an entire vertical dedicated to #fisheries and oceans in and linked to #China, has nothing - not even a mention - of the well-reported and researched allegations by Ian Urbina and the Outlaw Ocean Project.
It's been almost a decade since the removal of dams that blocked salmon migration on Washington state's Elwha River. Salmon populations have now recovered enough that members of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe are this month enjoying their first traditional fishery since removal.
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Report: Chinese fishing fleet is responsible for systemic human rights abuses and illegal fishing across the Southwest Indian Ocean. (ejfoundation.org)
The Chinese fishing fleet is responsible for systemic illegal fishing and human rights abuses in countries bordering the Southwest Indian Ocean (SWIO), undercutting China’s claims of supporting sustainable development and thriving blue economies in the region, according to a new report published today by the Environmental...