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ILLEGAL FISHING: WE NEED SHARED COMMITMENT

Thursday, February 2nd, 2012
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Yesterday, I watched with empathy, in the second episode of Al Jazeera programme “Pirate Fishing“, the adventures of the fisheries ministry inspector Victor Kargbo and the reporter Juliana Ruhfus, chasing the Sea Queen/Ocean-3, caught fishing illegally in Sierra Leonean waters. And I was thrilled when they succeeded!
 

I am ever more convinced and committed that the EU has to play a leading role to stop illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. Read the full entry

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EU-US: A PARTNERSHIP TO ERADICATE ILLEGAL FISHING

Monday, September 12th, 2011
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Commissioner Maria Damanaki (left) and Dr Jane Lubchenco (right), Commissioner Maria Damanaki and Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Administrator, on their way to sign the EU-US joint statement on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

Commissioner Maria Damanaki and Dr. Jane Lubchenco on their way to sign the EU-US joint statement against illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

I am just on my way back from the United States, where I did sign a significant agreement between Europe and the US administration on putting an end to pirate fishing with Dr. Jane Lubchenco, Under Secretary of Commerce for Oceans and Atmosphere and NOAA Administrator.

The substantial follow up in the media on this topic shows the importance given to this subject by the public at large, but also that real action is expected to follow soon. We have established an EU-US High Level Dialogue on Fisheries Policy to set out the next steps in the immediate future. Read the full entry

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