European fisheries show how better trust between the stakeholders can improve the management of fisheries, Javier Garat, CEPESCA's Secretary-General (the Spanish Confederation of Fisheries), highlighting the potential of the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI). Javier Garat (right), Secretary General of Cepesca In an interview soon after FiTI’s second International Advisory Group…
The Fisheries Transparency Initiative continued its discussion on transparency requirements, when its International Advisory Group met at the headquarters of the FAO in Rome to advance work begun at a first meeting in Berlin. The meeting was prepared and conducted by the HUMBOLDT-VIADRINA Governance Platform (acting as the Secretariat for the initiative)…
By blowing up boats fishing illegally in its waters, Indonesia has captured the imagination of many. In 2015, it has sunk more than 100 boats so far. Mas Achmad Santosa, Head of Indonesia’s Task Force on the Prevention and Eradication of IUU Fishing But the policy is just one aspect…
DAKAR, 28 October 2015. Dusk: the colorful pirogues have been at sea since dawn, and now they are coming back one by one to the shore. At the fish market on the beach, women and men are waiting for the fishermen’s daily catch. Fishermen landing their daily catch at Dakar's fish…