If ASEAN demands its member nations try to stop illegal and unregulated fishing, but without requiring matching financial commitments, we will continue to lose the battle against illegal fishing.
French marine commandos operate on a speed boat off the coast of Somalia, in the Gulf of Aden.
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The current focus by extra-regional actors is an elite project that undermines a maritime security strategy that would benefit the African people.
Workers flood a Vietnamese-flagged boat caught operating illegally off West Kalimantan, Indonesia on May 4, 2019 in order to sink it.
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Understanding when, where and why fishing vessels sometimes turn off their transponders is a key step toward curbing illegal fishing and other crimes on the high seas.
Fining and jailing Indonesian fishers taking shark fin is a knee-jerk solution. As long as sharks keep vanishing and demand for shark fin soup remains high, illegal fishing will continue.
Every year, it’s estimated as many as 24,000 fishers die in fishing vessel accidents. That’s more than 10 times more lives claimed than on merchant ships, carrying cargo or passengers. Why?
Plastic bottles and other waste are some of the contaminants destroying the oceans.
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Traditional food provenance methods are typically designed to identify one species at a time. So we worked out a new approach, as part of a broader effort to combat seafood fraud and illegal fishing.
Fish stocks are in decline around the world, in part because of the way we value nature and fail to account for their long-term benefits.
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Humans have failed to take good care of the ocean — and the environment at large — because we undervalue its goods and services.
A man removes water from a fishing boat in Idenau, Cameroon. Illegal activity by foreign fishing companies has depleted fishing stocks.
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Nigeria must address illegal fishing, which depletes the country’s fish stocks, undermines livelihoods and pushes people into poverty.
Nigerian Navy Special forces pretend to arrest pirates during a joint military exercise with the French navy.
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When illegal fishing is misrepresented, it leads to poor investments and misguided policies that don’t help the actual problem.
China has clashed with neighbors over its fishing in the contested South China Sea, pictured here. Controversially, Chinese fishermen also venture as far as Argentina and Ecuador.
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Chinese fishermen are illegally trawling South American waters, inflaming tensions with the US. But for centuries Washington used aggressive fishing to expand its overseas presence, too.
Then Minister of Marine Affairs and Fisheries Susi Pudjiastuti during a 2016 tour of the USS New Orleans in the Java Sea.
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Fabio Scarpello, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau
My research explores how fisheries minister Susi Pudjiastuti was left out of Jokowi’s new cabinet. Her harsh managerial style alienated many parties and a coalition rose to oust her from office.
Oceans are teeming with life and are connected to society through history and culture, shipping and economic activity, geopolitics and recreation.
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International law does not meaningfully address biodiversity conservation in the high seas. We risk losing marine species before we have a chance to identify and understand them.
Fishermen unload their catch from a boat at a traditional fishing port.
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The patronage system – common in South-East Asia’s small-scale fisheries – indirectly perpetuates destructive fishing practices. However, opportunities exist to tap them as agents of change.
Mercury levels in Pacific sardines could rise by as much as 14 per cent if greenhouse gas emissions continue to rise.
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Regulations have lowered mercury emissions globally, but the risks to ocean ecosystems and human health may be getting worse.
Evening light on a Heard Island icescape. The island is part of the Kerguelen Plateau, which is being jointly studied by France and Australia.
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Our study found that some individuals who previously participated in destructive fishing practices can transform into inspiring leaders and influence others to protect coral reefs.