Sea Shepherd

52 Fishing Aggregating Devices found in UNESCO-listed Aeolian Islands

Sea Shepherd and the Aeolian Islands Preservation Fund joined forces to tackle Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in Italy’s Aeolian Archipelago. Sea Shepherd’s vessel ‘Sam Simon’ together with Lipari’s Coast Guard, Milazzo’s Revenue and Customs Authorities, and with the collaboration of artisanal fishermen, confiscated 52 Fishing Aggregating Devices (FADs) and 100 km of polypropylene line in the Aeolian Islands in 178 hours.

The Sam Simon carried out an undercover operation in...

https://safety4sea.com/52-fishing-aggregating-devices-found-in-unesco-listed-aeolian-islands/

Sea Shepherd offers Faroe Islands EUR 1 million to end whaling

In the last decade, a total of 7,744 small cetaceans of five different species (58,897 cetaceans of at least six species over the last 50 years) have lost their lives in the Faroe Islands whaling hunts, locally called ‘grindadráp’. In response, marine conservation charity Sea Shepherd UK proposed a financial incentive to the Faroe Islands of EUR 1,000,000 in total over the next 10 years, to bring to an end grindadráp, as part of its efforts to protect marine wildlife.

Whaling in the Faroe...

https://safety4sea.com/sea-shepherd-offers-faroe-islands-eur-1-million-to-end-whaling/

Vessel busted in Africa for shark finning ‘under the guise of tuna license’

As part of the Operation Albacore III, Central African authorities seized a Senegalese-flagged, but Spanish-linked, long-line fishing vessel over fishing a large quantity of blue sharks that are classified as ‘near-threatened’ by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), although the long-liner was licensed to fish for ‘tuna and similar species’.

According to data provided by Sea Shepherd, on 22 September, local authorities from the Central African island state of São Tomé and...

https://safety4sea.com/vessel-busted-in-africa-for-shark-finning-under-the-guise-of-tuna-license/

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