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pressT2V Africa
Fishing Futility
Fishing is a way of life in West Africa, a source of food and revenue. But increasingly, huge fishing fleets from China and other far-flung places ...
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pressHakai Magazine
West Africa’s artisanal fisheries rival the industrial fleet
West Africa’s artisanal fishing fleet has grown in size and engine power to the point where it now dwarfs the region’s industrial fleet. Yet despit...
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pressHakai Magazine
Where is the catch
Around the world there are two main types of fisheries: large-scale and small-scale. In politics and science, large-scale industrial fleets, with t...
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blog29 Apr 2025
How Illegal Fishing Fuels Cartels, Collapses Communities, and Threatens Global Security: A Law Enforcement Crisis
Environmental crimes like illegal fishing fund drug cartels, displace communities, and destabilize nations. Law enforcement leaders can no longer ...
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pressThe Grocer UK
Off the hook: How the EU is failing to police illegal fishing
While the EU’s Common Fisheries Policy is coming down hard on some countries, it’s letting others off the hook, including its own member states
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pressMidi Agasikara
Criminalité de pêche : 3 700 incidents enregistrés par « Spyglass »
« Spyglass » est un projet en cours d’étude initié par Ecotrust Canada sous la direction du docteur Dyhia Belhabib. Le but est de mettre en place u...
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pressChina Dialogue
Investigation ties foreign-owned trawlers to illegal fishing in Ghana
Part one shows how an opaque ownership network enables illegal fishing at the expense of local communities . As women fish sellers sit on their sto...
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pressChinadialogue
Nigerian fishers hit by criminals, imports and climate change
From African waters to China and back again, over half the fish on Nigerian tables is imported. There is a legend about the neighborhood of Makoko....
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pressChina Dialogue
How Ghana’s weak penalties are letting trawlers off the hook
Part two of this investigation explores the secretive networks committing fishery offences in Ghana and Sierra Leone. Illegal fishing off West Afri...
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pressScience daily
Chinese foreign fisheries catch 12 times more than reported, study shows
Chinese fishing boats catch about US$11.5 billion worth of fish from beyond their country's own waters each year -- and most of it goes unreported,...
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pressCook Islands News
EU deal show of foolishness
TOGETHER, the people of the Cook Islands are watching prime minister Henry Puna’s government make a series of fundamental mistakes that will hurt o...
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pressThe Ecologist
Oceans running out of fish as undeclared catches add a third to official figures
The global catch of fish and seafood is falling at three times the rate reported by the United Nations and urgently needs to be slowed to avoid a c...
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pressSlate
Why would a pirate ship need insurance?
The bizarre case of the self-sunk illegal Thunder and recent research show that insurers still cover illegal fishers, to the illegal fishers’ benefit.
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pressLe Point
Les petits pêcheurs, acteurs sous-estimés de l'économie africaine
In West Africa, nearly 7 million people depend directly on local fisheries. While these have long been an attractive sector, they now face numerous...
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pressScience Magazine
Official statistics understate global fish catch, new estimate concludes
Commonly cited statistics have understated the size of the global seafood catch by about 30%, a new tally finds. The estimate, drawn in part from a...
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pressKBS Living Oceans Foundation
The capture of the Asian warrior
Trying to calculate just how much fish is stolen by illegal fishing boats requires real detective work. Dr. Belhabib has been working with the fish...
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pressEPS News
African fisheries plundered by foreign fleets
In 2011, Dyhia Belhabib was a volunteer in the Fisheries Centre at the University of British Columbia in Vancouver when she was asked to participat...
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pressSeattle times
China’s appetite pushes world’s fish stocks to the brink
Your net would be so full of fish, you could barely heave it onto the boat,” said Mamadou So, 52, a fisherman in Senegal, gesturing to the meager a...
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pressRadio France International
West Africa fishing communities working hard for little returns
Fishing is a vital part of life in west Africa, from Senegal to Cote d'Ivoire, but overfishing and bad management threatens fishing livelihoods.
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pressReuters
All at sea: foreign fishing fleets drain West African waters
JOAL-FADIOUTH, Senegal/ROME, May 8 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - J ostling for space and swatting the smoke away from her eyes, Mariama Ngom sighs...
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pressRadio France International
Under-reporting fish catches off Africa’s coast, part 2
A recent study reveals that unreported catches have a heavy toll on fisheries in East and West Africa. A large number of vessels report catching fa...
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pressAfrica.com
What is the future of artisanal fisheries in West Africa
“They are part of the social and traditional fabric, they employ nearly seven million people, and provide 75% of the animal protein intake.” Scient...
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pressVoice of America
All at sea: foreign fishing fleets drain West African waters
Once among the richest in the world, West Africa's fish stocks are being depleted by industrial trawlers which comb the oceans to feed European and...
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pressChina Digital Times
The tide is changing for Chinese in Africa
China’s advances have come as the West seems to be retreating. United States engagement in Asia, Africa and Latin America declined after the Cold W...
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pressThe New York Times
China’s appetite pushes fisheries to the brink
JOAL, Senegal — Once upon a time, the seas teemed with mackerel, squid and sardines, and life was good. But now, on opposite sides of the globe, su...
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pressThe New York Times
China wants fish, so Africa goes hungry
Of all the stresses that humans have inflicted on the world’s oceans, including pollution and global warming, industrial fishing ranks high. For ye...
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pressSealives
Empowerment by Choice, Empowerment by Design – The Fight for the Future of Coastal Communities
Born in Algeria in a small “village-slash-town” far from the sea and in a social environment that didn’t encourage women to make unconventional car...
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pressUndercurrentNews
Chinese investment in West Africa’s fishing industry fuels food security fears
FUZHOU, China -- Stepping into Hong Dong Fisheries’ head office in Fuzhou, China, it is hard to fathom the firm’s huge international reach. In the ...
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pressHakai Magazine
When disaster strikes, go fish
A study suggests that fishing can help communities recover from extreme events—if foreign fleets don’t interfere.
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pressCNN
Drones driven by AI will track illegal fishing in African waters
Across the African continent, drones are finding innovative uses – from monitoring displaced populations, to delivering critical medical supplies.
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pressLe Soleil
Pêche illicite en Afrique : Une perte annuelle de 10 millions de tonnes de poissons
La pêche illicite communément appelée pêche Inn, fait perdre à l’Afrique 10 millions de tonnes de poissons par an, selon des statistiques publiées,...
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pressPew Charitable, Trusts
To Help Women Working in Fisheries, WTO Should End Harmful Subsidies
It’s no secret that women, especially those in developing countries, perform a lot of the hard, thankless work that keeps societies functioning. Th...
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pressThe Guardian
Liberia's eco-vigilantes score arresting success in struggle to end illegal fishing
Kromah and his fellow officers are on the frontline of the little nation’s ill-matched crackdown on fisheries crime – which Interpol has linked wit...
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pressThe Guardian
Alone in the darkness’: life for Liberia’s fishermen
The threat of poaching by foreign trawlers has eased for the nation’s 33,000 local fishermen, who are hauling in the rewards of a coastguard crackdown
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pressThe Conversation
EU targets fragile West African fish stocks, despite protection laws
Most of the large fishing vessels that operate in West Africa are from distant water fishing nations – such as countries in the European Union (EU)...
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pressseafood source
New tool helps fisheries enforcement track criminal fishing around the world
Anew online tool maps vessels that have fished illegally or committed other crimes at sea, giving fishery managers and enforcement officials anothe...
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pressGlobal News TV
Spyglass App lets anyone report illegal fishing
Illegal fishing and other sea-going crimes are a threat to ocean health and a stable food supply and now there's an app that let's anyone report w...
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pressHakai Magazine
When disasters strike, go fish
A study suggests that fishing can help communities recover from extreme events—if foreign fleets don’t interfere.
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pressUndercurrent,News
Ecotrust Canada launches Spyglass to apply more transparency to illegal fishing
The tool, which is available in five languages, provides open access to a growing database of nearly 3,700 vessel entries and 1,200 company entries...
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pressHakai Magazine
When the day’s catch includes cocaine and heroin
Drug traffickers have been busted using everything from drones to ambulances to run narcotics, but the most valuable cargoes move over maritime rou...
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pressThe Guardian
Fisheries plant on Australia's border could be used as cover for drugs, weapons and people smuggling, experts say
Security experts have warned a $200m Chinese-built fisheries plant, proposed for a Papua New Guinean island on Australia’s border, could be exploit...
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pressThe National Observer
Canada launches satellite program to track illegal fishing abroad
Fisheries and Oceans Canada (DFO) has announced a $7-million satellite program to locate and track people who are fishing illegally near Ecuador's ...
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pressHakai Magazine
The Shady Practices That Plague Global Fishing
From setting up shell companies to using tax havens, the owners of fishing vessels employ extreme measures to hide their identities.
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pressSeafoodSource
New tool helps fisheries enforcement track criminal fishing around the world
Anew online tool maps vessels that have fished illegally or committed other crimes at sea, giving fishery managers and enforcement officials anothe...
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pressMongabay
Drug trafficking could be putting ‘fragile fisheries’ at risk, study says
The fishing boat flew a Singaporean flag as it sailed toward Batam Island in Indonesia. But when Indonesian Navy officers intercepted the vessel an...
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pressCBC
In fight against illegal fishing, Canada's sea spies struggle with sloppy intel, bias: Internal files
The findings of this evaluation indicate that the stated objectives of targeting the greatest threat to fisheries and supporting officers in their ...
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pressCBC
Top-secret records show New Brunswick, Alberta companies received millions in suspicious transfers
It was July 19, 2019, and the Ivan Golubets, an imposing vessel comparable to the size of a soccer field, was fishing in the resource-rich waters o...
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pressChina Dialogue
Spyglass reveals fisheries crimes
Wild fish feed 3 billion people. Fishing provides an income and livelihood for nearly 60 million people, mostly within waters close to their homes,...
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pressThe National Observer
Collaboration key to protecting oceans, Fisheries Researcher
A co-ordinated global effort to protect the world's oceans could support biodiversity, sequester carbon, and increase fisheries' yields, according ...
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pressThe National Observe
Ecotrust Canada’s Dyhia Belhabib wants you to know how illegal fishing threatens our food security
A crying fisherman pointing to an illegal fishing trawler on an Algerian dock is forever imprinted in Dyhia Belhabib’s mind. The image is part of w...
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pressNPR
How Foreign Overfishing is driving migration crisis in Senegal
When I was in the Senegalese fishing town of Kayar, on the west coast of Africa a few months ago, I sat at the edge of the Atlantic Ocean with a fi...
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