European Union host Our Ocean 2017

European Union host Our Ocean 2017

October 2017 — Sandy Davies (Technical Director) and Sally Frankcom (Communications Officer) attended Our Ocean 2017 in Malta, representing the Stop Illegal Fishing Secretariat and FISH-i Africa.

Since 2014, Our Ocean conferences, have invited world leaders to look forward and respond to the challenges faced by our oceans, delivering high-level commitments and transforming the challenges ahead into an opportunity for cooperation, innovation and entrepreneurship. Hosted by the European Union in Malta sessions focussed on marine pollution, marine protection, maritime security, building the sustainable blue economy, climate change and ocean leadership.

Stop Illegal Fishing Chairperson, Elsa da Gloria Pátria, announced, on behalf of the FISH-i Africa Task Force, to launch a programme of VIGILANCE in the Western Indian Ocean. VIGILANCE will be a robust assessment of all industrial fishing vessels licensed to fish by FISH-i members to assess the legality of their identity, history, ownership and management. This is in response to the systematic illegalities and criminal offences identified by FISH-i Africa investigations.

 

 

members of the NFDS team were in London for the 9th International Forum on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing at Chatham House.