08 Sep 2025
Photo by Paul Einerhand The UK’s Fisheries Administrations have launched the “Fish, Trace, Ship” campaign to prepare the country’s seafood supply chain for major changes to EU export requirements, warning that businesses must act early to maintain market access from 10 January 2026. The campaign, led by the Marine Management Organisation, comes as the EU updates […]
09 Apr 2019
New research from the Monterey Bay Aquarium finds that historical tortoiseshell trade routes may have established the groundwork for modern illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The study published in the journal Science Advances, “The historical development of complex global trafficking networks for marine wildlife,” analyses 150 years of tortoiseshell trade records and derives several realistic […]
14 Aug 2015
There has been an exciting development regarding international fisheries law. It’s an Advisory Opinion delivered by the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea in April this year on, amongst other things, IUU fishing. For an introduction, see the following short paper by Tim Stephens: http://www.asil.org/insights/volume/19/issue/8/itlos-advisory-opinion-coastal-and-flag-state-duties-ensure For more information, see the website of ITLOS […]