RFMO

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

The EU Fisheries Committee has approved its negotiating position on updated measures to avoid overfishing in non-EU countries.

15th April 2025

EU introduces new tools to tackle unsustainable fishing by third-countries

15th April 2025

ANALYSIS

ANALYSIS

A fleet of Chinese tuna fishing vessels operating in the Southwest Indian Ocean reportedly used North Koreans as crew between 2019 and 2024, likely violating UN sanctions, with many apparently subjected to…

24th February 2025

Investigation: Chinese tuna fleet used North Korean forced labour

24th February 2025

OPINION

OPINION

This time last year, we were stuck. It seemed our once-energetic, innovative, tuna-centric community was still trying to shake off the gumption-deadening malaise of the 2020–2023 Covid-19 pandemic. After witnessing many years…

15th January 2025

Op-Ed: Electronic monitoring revival shows we can still do hard things

15th January 2025

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMO) are consistently failing to sustain fisheries and protect marine biodiversity, says Accountability.Fish.

17th July 2024

RFMOs ‘fail to protect oceans’

17th July 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

There have been shocking failures in global fisheries management over the last 70 years, according to a new report from Greenpeace International. 

6th June 2024

Greenpeace: Shocking failures in global fisheries management

6th June 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

Campaign group Accountability.Fish has launched a new drive to encourage fisheries to be more transparent and open.

18th March 2024

Campaign group urges greater fisheries openness

18th March 2024

OPINION

OPINION

International Seafood Sustainability Foundation President Susan Jackson urges industry to unlock the transformative impacts of electronic monitoring.

9th February 2024

Op-Ed: Make 2024 the year that EM becomes ‘business as usual’ in global tuna fisheries

9th February 2024

FISHERIES

FISHERIES

This year’s annual meeting of the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT), held in New Cairo, Egypt, ended on 20 November 2023 with members adopting some key recommendations to…

22nd November 2023

Sustainable fisheries championed at ICCAT

22nd November 2023

OPINION

OPINION

Accountability.Fish Global Director Ryan Orgera addresses the implications of closed shop RFMOs.

14th November 2023

Op-Ed: Secrecy in fisheries management – bad news for the world’s oceans

14th November 2023

SUSTAINABILITY

SUSTAINABILITY

More than 20 countries and the European Union have confirmed the adoption of 34 measures aimed at ensuring the conservation and sustainable use of marine living resources, as well as the sustainable…

13th November 2023

Progress for Med and Black Sea fisheries, aquaculture

13th November 2023