Indonesia to send more tuna vessels out into international waters mongabay.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from mongabay.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
SME tech saves seabirds from death: Ben and Pete Kibel named European Inventor Award 2021 finalists
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British brothers nominated for European Patent Office (EPO) prize for their device that reduces accidental seabird deaths in longline fishing
Pressure-sensitive pod covers hooks at the sea surface but opens when bait sinks to depth of 20 metres
In trials, the technology cut seabird deaths by 95% without reducing catch rates
Munich, 4 May 2021 – The European Patent Office (EPO) announces that British brothers Ben and Pete Kibel have been nominated as finalists in the “SMEs” category of the European Inventor Award 2021 for their invention of a simple, low-cost device that prevents the accidental deaths of seabirds during longline fishing.
Pacific Youth lead the Conversation on World Tuna Day
“Engaging in meaningful conversations with young people, who make up more than half of our population in the Pacific, is key to improving understanding of one of the few primary industries accessible to all Pacific Island economies,” said FFA Director General Dr Manu Tupou-Roosen.
Source: Supplied Monday, 03 May 2021 10:55 AM
Amplifying the voices of young Pacific people and addressing their questions and concerns is at the heart of the Teen Tuna Tok campaign, launched this week to mark World Tuna Day (Sunday 2nd May 2021).
The social media campaign, a joint initiative from the Pacific’s lead agencies working with Tuna, has received entries from teens from across the Pacific from Kiribati, Papua New Guinea, the Federated States of Micronesia to the Marshall Islands and Tonga.
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Pressure Mounting To Ban Fish Transshipment Throughout Pacific Submitted by admin on Mon, 09/28/2015 - 00:00
Better monitoring of chain of custody should suffice: Industry
By Michael Neilson
AUCKLAND, New Zealand (Pacific Scoop, Sept. 26, 2015) – Pressure is mounting to outlaw Pacific region transhipments – a practice linked to overfishing – after Nauru’s decision to impose a ban in its waters.
This decision follows Greenpeace’s discovery of the Taiwanese longliner Shuen De Ching No. 888, which the environmental organisation claims had been fishing without permission near Nauru’s waters for two months.
Along with an illegal amount of shark fins, Greenpeace said the logbook also showed an implausibly low catch of five tonnes, suggesting the vessel had been transferring undocumented fish to another ship.