Tag: fishing
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How Rampant Illegal Fishing Is Destabilizing Somalia
February 06: In Somali waters, illegal fishing is a pervasive problem. It triggers clashes between foreign and domestic fishers, and destabilizes Somali life. For at least seven decades, foreign fishers […]
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Lamu Fishermen Claim Night Fishing Ban Near Somalia Still ‘Enforced Secretly’
January 16: The night fishing ban in Lamu, Kenya is still being secretly enforced despite the government announcing last March that it had been lifted, fishermen have claimed. In March […]
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Reducing Somalia’s Piracy By Building a Fishing Industry
January 07: At the peak of the problem, in 2011, there were 237 incidents of piracy off Somalia and the Gulf of Aden (the sea separating Somalia and Yemen), accounting […]
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Fishermen Temporarily Block Highway in Bangladesh to Protest Annual Fishing Restrictions
June 09: Fishermen have called off their protest against the government’s decision to ban deep-sea fishing after blockading the Dhaka-Chattogram Highway in Sitakunda for about one and a half hours […]
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P3.2-M of Illegally Caught Fishes and Other Endangered Species Seized in Palawan
May 24: A ship carrying illegally caught fish and other endangered species worth P3.2 million was seized as it headed to Manila, the Philippine Coast Guard (PCG) said on Thursday, […]
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Vietnam Fisheries Association Calls to Require China to Compensate Fishermen
March 18: The Vietnam Fisheries Association has asked the Chinese government to compensate fishermen for the sinking of their ships in the Paracel Sea and condemned the sinking as inhumane, […]
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23-Year-Old Arrested with Explosives Used for Illegal Fishing in Sri Lanka
March 17: A person has been arrested in Pulmudai, Sri Lanka along with a cache of explosives used in illegal fishing activities. Navy personnel attached to the Eastern Naval Command […]
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Egyptian Naval Forces Intercept Cannabis and Contraband E-Cigarettes in Two Separate Seizures
March 13: Egypt’s Naval Forces thwarted the smuggling of eight tons of Cannabis in the western coasts on Wednesday, official spokesperson of the Armed Forces Tamer al-Refai stated. Refai stated that […]
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Taiwan Coast Guard Seizes Chinese Fishing Boat Near Penghu
March 13 2019: According to Taiwanese media, the Taiwanese Coast Guard in Penghu seized a Chinese fishing boat on the morning of March 13 that crossed into Taiwan’s territorial waters, […]
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S. Korea vessel escapes pirates
Fears vessel had been hijacked. South Korea says contact resumed with vessel off Somalia, crew safe South Korea said on Saturday it has resumed contact with a distressed fishing vessel […]