fishing

22 September, 2023

 Press Release – For Immediate Release

NAFO’s 45th Annual Meeting achieved progress in the protection of vulnerable marine ecosystems and in advancing their work on the ecosystem approach to fisheries to prevent ecosystem overfishing, including by taking first steps to incorporate climate change into fisheries management. NAFO also agreed to test a new precautionary approach framework on fisheries management that would in principle improve the sustainability of their managed fish stocks.

Continue reading Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization extends closures of vulnerable marine ecosystems and adopts first climate change resolution

22 February, 2023

Media Release

Wednesday 22 February

The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) has given the green light to destroying 30% of vulnerable deep-water corals and sponges and failed to protect hotspots for life in the deep. 

Continue reading SOUTH PACIFIC FISHERIES MANAGEMENT ORGANISATION MEETING SEA LIFE  LEAVES DOOR OPEN TO DESTRUCTION OF 30% OF DEEP SEA MARINE LIFE 

7 February, 2023

MEDIA RELEASE

For release 7.2.22

As the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO) begins its 11th Annual Commission Meeting, held in Manta, Ecuador from 7th February, the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) calls for the phasing out of bottom trawl fishing  on seamounts on the high seas by December 2023.

Continue reading SPRFMO Member States have unique opportunity to end destructive deep-sea bottom trawling and commit to ocean protection