Australia to investigate claims Sea Shepherd purposefully rammed Japanese whaler
Australia's federal environment minister Greg Hung recently ordered an investigation into how a recent collision between a Japanese whaling and a Sea Shepherd's vessel came about
Activists pose as buyers, expose Chinese factory processing shark
Activists posed as representatives of an international seafood company to get inside a mainland China building where hundreds of endangered whale sharks were processed
EU, Senegal hold talks to renew fisheries deal
Meeting decides to entirely rethink the legal framework which dates back to 1980, in deal that could give EU tuna and some demersal access again to Segenalese waters
Bloomberg investing $53m to combat chronic overfishing
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
South Africa detains tuna vessels over slave labor
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
US senators ask Obama to fight seafood fraud
Although the US imports more than 90% of seafood consumed domestically, foreign seafood is almost never inspected for fraud or legality, said US senators
Labor abuse reported on ‘slave ships’ seized off Cape coast
75 people, mainly Indonesian and Taiwanese, were reportedly forced to live and work in appalling conditions in ten vessels fishing illegally
Fiji tuna industry ‘beyond crisis’ level
Companies such as Fiji Fish Marketing Group are having to lay off hundreds as overfishing decimates supply
Senegalese authorities release Russian trawler detained over IUU
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
Fiji group shuts down tuna business, blames overfishing
The company's managing director said tuna industry is no longer sustainable in Fiji as a consequence of overfishing