Illegal Fishing Vessels Blacklisted In Indian Ocean Waters

The Indian Ocean Tuna Fee has announced the blacklisting of a immediate of tuna fishing vessels in the Indian Ocean.

The transfer comes on the heels of an investigation by the Environmental Justice Basis (EJF) which chanced on that the boats compile a historical previous of unlawful fishing inform.

This immediate used to be beforehand banned from tuna fishing in the Atlantic in 2021 and used to be as a result of this truth dropped by its insurance protection suppliers. In step with Steve Trent, the CEO of the Environmental Justice Basis:

“I applaud each the Atlantic and Indian Ocean tuna commissions for taking action to forestall this immediate from continuing to decimate ocean ecosystems with impunity – nevertheless tackling each unlawful immediate one after the opposite is now not the acknowledge. To safeguard the ocean, meals security and livelihoods around the enviornment, we compile now got to feature transparency on the center of world fisheries. Cracking down on opacity by combating the use of flags of convenience and making improvements to port inspections, coupled with the publishing and sharing of knowledge – corresponding to vessel license lists, historical previous of offenses, and total ownership principal facets – can merit governments, regional fisheries management organisations, law-abiding fishing firms, NGOs, outlets and even buyers to work collectively to rid our oceans of these negative operators. We must at all times take care of these unlawful operators to account, and that begins with transparency.”