Fisheries regulator relaxed over huge cod bycatch over-run
Making a mockery of its own undertakings, the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) implemented no new measures to control cod bycatch despite bycatch levels on the southern Grand Banks reaching more than twice voluntary levels.
Endangered Grand Banks cod catch doubles in 2008
The amount of cod caught on the Grand Banks this past year exceeded the 420 tonnes bycatch reduction target set by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO) by a wide margin.
Seabird saving invention snags top Smart Gear prize
Danish fishers set anchor on certification
Danish fishers in a landmark decision today announced they planned to adhere to the internationally-recognized marine stewardship standards -- putting a stop to years of overfishing and bycatch.
Illegal fishery in Morocco to feed European consumers allows ocean destruction to go on
The practice has been banned in the Mediterranean since 2003, yet a large fleet of driftnets continues to operate business as usual in Morocco, targeting swordfish for the European market.
Pescadores centroamericanos son socios de WWF en la reducción de la pesca incidental de tortugas marinas.
Con el intercambio simbólico de anzuelos "jota" por "circulares" 32 embarcaciones de Guatemala, El Salvador y Nicaragua se gradúan del programa de Reducción de la Pesca Incidental de Tortugas del WWF.
Sustainable Fishing - Latin America
A new way of fishing
Conservation challenges in sustainable fisheries in Latin America and The Caribbean are great and vast in term of the complexity and importance and impacts to economies and marine ecosystems throughout the region.
Europe a key culprit as Grand Banks cod bycatch stalls recovery
Cod bycatch was at least 70 per cent higher than target levels on the southern Grand Banks near Canada, holding back recovery of one of the world’s best known fisheries following its spectacular collapse and closure in the early 1990s.
Forty percent of global fisheries catch wasted or unmanaged - WWF
Nearly half of the world’s recorded fish catch is unused, wasted or not accounted for, according to estimates in a new scientific paper co-authored by WWF, the global conservation organization.
Traditional leaders to help WWF save threatened marine turtles
WWF will convene a council of traditional leaders in the Asia Pacific’s Coral Triangle to help reverse the decline of globally threatened marine turtles, an international symposium on sea turtle biology and conservation held in Brisbane, Australia heard this week.