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World
Bloomberg investing $53m to combat chronic overfishing

Jan. 30, 2014 4:50 PM

Former NYC mayor dolls out cash to conservation groups and an investment firm to reach the world's overfishing problem from both political and financial resource angles

Skipjack tuna
South Africa detains tuna vessels over slave labor

Jan. 29, 2014 5:05 PM

Two of ten longliners detained have escaped and are being sought by Interpol, as South Africa takes up the case with Taiwanese and Indonesian authorities

Trade
US senators ask Obama to fight seafood fraud

Jan. 27, 2014 5:29 PM

Although the US imports more than 90% of seafood consumed domestically, foreign seafood is almost never inspected for fraud or legality, said US senators

Africa
Labor abuse reported on ‘slave ships’ seized off Cape coast

Jan. 24, 2014 5:08 PM

75 people, mainly Indonesian and Taiwanese, were reportedly forced to live and work in appalling conditions in ten vessels fishing illegally

Analysis
Fiji tuna industry ‘beyond crisis’ level

Jan. 23, 2014 12:22 AM

Companies such as Fiji Fish Marketing Group are having to lay off hundreds as overfishing decimates supply

Africa
Senegalese authorities release Russian trawler detained over IUU

Jan. 22, 2014 9:28 AM

Russian foreign ministry said the issue will be kept under special control, while Senegalese representative in talks with Russia said they would made every effort possible to resolve the situation

Oceania
Fiji group shuts down tuna business, blames overfishing

Jan. 17, 2014 5:05 PM

The company's managing director said  tuna industry is no longer sustainable in Fiji as a consequence of overfishing

Companies
Norway releases Arkhangelsk trawler

Jan. 17, 2014 4:56 PM

Shipowner paid a fine of about $62,000

Salmonid
Australis Seafood sets new share price issue at $35

Jan. 17, 2014 9:41 AM

The new price announced this week comes as a response to the Chilean financial authorities, which in November instructed Australis to cut down the price of preferred stock to avoid abuse

IUU
Russian trawler claims it was fishing in Guinea-Bissau waters

Jan. 15, 2014 8:23 AM

Director of Russian trawler detained by Senegal says vessel was fishing legally in neighboring waters of Guinea-Bissau, as Senegal reportedly asks for $3m fine

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