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Russia March 21, 2024 9:47 AM
Death of Russian ‘crab king’ cited as defense in $4bn lawsuit

By Sergei Blagov

As Russian authorities try to seize crab assets worth nearly $4bn -- amounting to roughly a tenth of the country's TAC -- lawyers have claimed that one key defendant is no longer alive

Russia March 20, 2024 9:54 AM
Russia formally accepts WTO fisheries subsidies agreement despite domestic outcry

By Sergei Blagov

Russia's representative to the World Trade Organization, Nikolai Platonov, has pledged that the country will implement the agreement to counter unfair fishery practices

Policy March 19, 2024 1:53 PM
Canada makes 26 more arrests for illegal elver fishing

Commercial elver fishing is illegal in Atlantic Canada is shut down but the poaching continues

Sustainability March 18, 2024 1:14 PM
Canadian commercial elver harvester sues First Nations in New Brunswick court

The lawsuit, filed in the Court of King's Bench in Fredericton, names more than 100 people who are alleged to have netted baby eels without permission in the spring of 2023

Legal March 15, 2024 9:36 AM
WTO to persist on fishing subsidy reform despite lack of consensus so far

The World Trade Organization aims to reform its dispute settlement process and address fishing subsidies despite global economic challenges

IUU March 12, 2024 12:06 AM
Canada’s fisheries minister shuts down Atlantic elver fishery

By Barb Dean-Simmons

The risks to the conservation of the species cannot be addressed and an orderly management of the fishery cannot be restored -- Diane Lebouthillier

Skipjack tuna March 11, 2024 3:04 PM
Report: Tuna caught by Chinese vessels that netted penguins, whales linked to Bumble Bee

By Louis Harkell

Some of the world's largest seafood brands, including US tuna giant Bumble Bee Foods, have again been linked to disturbing fishing practices and human rights abuses in China's distant water fishing fleet

Traceability March 11, 2024 9:45 AM
NGO urges UK sanctions on Chinese firms linked to Uyghur forced labor

An NGO, which wanted to remain anonymous, has filed a legal petition urging the UK government to impose sanctions on seven Chinese firms

IUU March 7, 2024 4:29 PM
Nova Scotia fisheries minister challenges Canada over handling of elver fishery

'The only foreseeable outcome from this proposed closure is financial hardship inflicted upon our law-abiding license-holders' -- Kent Smith, Nova Scotia fisheries minister

China March 6, 2024 3:39 PM
Russian fishery group reiterates opposition to WTO agreement on subsidies

By Sergei Blagov

A Russian seafood industrial lobbying group has reiterated its objections to the acceptance of the WTO agreement on fisheries subsidies

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