A contemporary epic issued this month by the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) identifies seven countries for having vessels engaged in unlawful, unreported or unregulated (IUU) fishing actions.
Those countries include China, Costa Rica, Guyana, Mexico, Russia, Senegal and Taiwan, according to NOAA’s epic, which is issued once every two years.
The epic also identifies countries and entities that lack a “regulatory program similar in effectiveness to the USA to gash the bycatch of unswerving marine lifestyles of their fishing operations.”
Those countries and entities are: Algeria, Barbados, China, Côte d’Ivoire, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, European Union, France, Greece, Grenada, Guyana, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malta, Mauritania, Mexico, Morocco, Namibia, Portugal, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Senegal, South Africa, Spain, Taiwan, Trinidad and Tobago, Tunisia and Turkey.
Per NOAA:
“IUU fishing undermines global efforts to sustainably position up and rebuild fisheries. It creates unfair market competition for fishermen who adhere to strict conservation measures admire these within the USA. IUU fishing might per chance per chance perchance additionally additionally devastate fish populations and their productive marine habitats, threatening meals security and financial balance worldwide. Bycatch, or the spend of non-diagram fish, marine mammals, sea turtles, and seabirds that change into twisted or entangled in fishing tools, can negatively private an impact on the conservation of ocean ecosystems, including unswerving marine lifestyles.
“Some worldwide locations raise out no longer private regulatory programs to gash or mitigate bycatch of unswerving species of their fisheries similar in effectiveness to the USA. This threatens the sustainability of these fisheries or totally different transboundary resources shared with the USA.”
Per Beth Lowell, deputy vice president for U.S. campaigns at Oceana:
“NOAA’s epic exhibits the unsettling actuality that IUU fishing is alive and properly previous our waters. IUU fishing might per chance per chance perchance additionally be out of scrutinize, but it might per chance no longer be out of thoughts — the Biden-Harris administration must take care of decisive move to wrestle unlawful, unreported, and unregulated fishing and cessation the U.S. market to all illegally sourced merchandise, including seafood caught the employ of compelled labor or totally different human rights abuses. Seafood might per chance per chance perchance additionally quiet no longer come at the price of human rights or healthy oceans — period. All seafood might per chance per chance perchance additionally quiet be unswerving, legally caught, responsibly sourced, and in actual fact labeled. We also commend NOAA for figuring out worldwide locations that didn’t address the bycatch of unswerving residing marine resources.”
Take a look at out the chunky epic here.
