Latest Fishing News
January 7-11, 2019
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EU Commission Lifts “Yellow Card” From Thailand for its Actions Against Illegal Fishing
The European Commission delists Thailand from the group of "warned countries" as recognition of its progress in tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
Today the Commission acknowledges that Thailand has successfully addressed the shortcomings in its fisheries legal and administrative systems. For this reason it lifts the so-called "yellow card", in place since April 2015, a warning from the EU that the country at the time was not sufficiently tackling illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing. Today's decision reverses the first step of a process that could have led to a complete import ban of marine fisheries products into the EU.
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Source: European Commission).
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Thai Union, Environmental Groups Praise EU’s Decision to Lift Yellow Card
Seafood giant Thai Union and environmental groups including OceanMind and the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) are praising the European Commission’s
decision to lift the yellow card
warning it placed on Thailand’s seafood industry in 2015.
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New Tuna Cannery to Open in Muscat, Oman
The Special Economic Zone Authority in Duqm (SEZAD) on Wednesday announced that it has signed an agreement with Dhofar Fisheries and Food Industries, which allows the company to utilise the authority’s land for setting up a fish packaging and canning facility with an investment of around RO10mn.
The agreement was signed on behalf of SEZAD by H E Yahya bin Said al Jabri, chairman of the board of directors and Mahdy Mohamed Hassan Hosny, chairman of the board of directors of Dhofar Fisheries and Food Industries Company, SEZAD said in a press release.
As per the agreement, SEZAD has allocated a plot with a total area around 41sqm at the Fishery Industries Zone in Duqm for the project.
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(Source: Muscat Daily).
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Peru Sets 64,000t Tuna Quota for Artisanal Fishermen
Peru's ministry of production (Produce) has set a quota of 64,000 metric tons for "bonito" tuna, to be caught by artisanal fishermen this year.
Fishing will end either when the quota is used up, or on Dec. 31, 2019.
Minister of production Raul Perez-Reyes said the quota may be modified if Peru's Institute of the Sea (Imarpe) sees a greater availability of bonito, in which case it will send Produce the recommendation.
Early in January Peru will begin research fishing on the resource, with a stock status report due by March 20.
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(Source: Undercurrent News).
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ARAP Clarifies Agreement With China Does not Violate Rules on Tuna Fishing
The
Water Resources Authority of Panama
(ARAP) ensures that the protocol of inspection, quarantine and veterinary health signed with China, a requirement for the export of cobia and black skipjack to that country, does not alter or modify the current legislation that regulates the fishing activity in Panama.
In a communication issued in order to "clarify misinterpretations", the ARAP notes that at present, the bonito, also known as black skipjack (
Euthynnus lineatus
), is one of the fishery products that exports Panama.
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(Source: Fish Infomation & Services).
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