According to the NGO, massive enforcement failures by Taiwan of its legislation means up to 70% of the FOC vessels are currently evading national laws.<\/p>\n
It has released a report, <\/span>\u2018The Inconvenient Truth of Taiwan\u2019s Flags of Convenience\u2019, on the eve of a Technical Compliance Committee Meeting of the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission in Phonapei, which Greenpeace said \u201curgently needs to recommend tougher regulations to halt the decline of the valuable Pacific tuna fisheries\u201d.<\/p>\n Greenpeace\u2019s investigation found 343 FOC vessels of which only 108 have adhered to the legislation requiring them to register their operations with Taiwan authorities. The fines for evading the legislation could bring $8.5 million (\u20ac6.3 million) to Taiwan if pursued.<\/p>\n Another 41 vessels were identified as suspect FOC vessels requiring further investigation by authorities. <\/span><\/p>\n \u201cEven though Taiwan is one of the few places to even have legislation meant to control fishing under flags of convenience it is alarming the tuna industry evades even the simplest registrations. This underlines the need for regional action in the Pacific to better regulate the fleets and clamp down on pirate fishing and wasteful practices,\u201d said Yu Fen Kao of Greenpeace.<\/p>\n Greenpeace also exposed 16 cases of pirate fishing in 2009 and 2010, which it said are linked to the Taiwanese fishing industry.<\/p>\n \u201cIn order to rescue the declining Pacific tuna stocks, key areas or \u201cpockets\u201d of international waters in the Pacific , vulnerable to pirate fishing must be closed to all fishing activities and the wasteful use of fish aggregation devices (FADs) in purse seine fishing banned,\u201d said Kao.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Taiwan Fisheries Agency has been condemned by Greenpeace for failing to provide an accurate number of Flag of Convenience (FOC) vessels operated by its industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}