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3 weeks ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
The annual meeting of the North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC), a multilateral body that manages most non-tuna fisheries in the region’s international waters, was held March 24-27 in Tokyo. In a bid to deter illegal fishing, the NPFC’s nine members agreed to require independent observers on ships that transfer fish at sea. The parties agreed to study the impact of bottom fishing on ocean habitats and to protect two small areas on one seamount.
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3 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Edward Carver
The U.N. report found evidence of sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs against detainees, many of whom were deprived of food, water, sleep, and toilet access. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Wednesday released a report detailing torture and abuse of Palestinians at Israeli detention centres, including sexual violence, waterboarding, and the use of dogs.
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3 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Edward Carver
“This is not just about wildlife,” an expert said. “It’s about the essential ecosystems that sustain human life.”Monitored populations of the world’s vertebrate animals declined on average by 73% between 1970 and 2020, according to a major report released Wednesday by the World Wild Fund for Nature and the Zoological Society of London.
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3 weeks ago | 
johnmenadue.com | Edward Carver
“Extreme hunger is unfolding” as a civil war enters its second year and funding is slow to arrive, the agencies warned. A group of United Nations agencies and humanitarian groups sounded the alarm Friday that 18 million Sudanese are acutely hungry as a civil war that began in April 2023 continues to ravage the country.
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3 weeks ago | 
openlegalblogarchive.org | Edward Carver
Panamanian authorities seized six longliner vessels on Jan. 20 for fishing illegally in protected waters. They also opened an investigation into an additional 10 vessels that surveillance data showed had apparently been fishing in the area but left by the time authorities arrived. The seizures took place in the Cordillera de Coiba, a marine protected area that’s part of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor, which connects several MPAs in four countries.
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3 weeks ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
Panamanian authorities seized six longliner vessels on Jan. 20 for fishing illegally in protected waters. They also opened an investigation into an additional 10 vessels that surveillance data showed had apparently been fishing in the area but left by the time authorities arrived. The seizures took place in the Cordillera de Coiba, a marine protected area that’s part of the Eastern Tropical Pacific Marine Corridor, which connects several MPAs in four countries.
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1 month ago | 
savingseafood.org | Edward Carver
March 21, 2025 — U.S. Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of an enormous marine protected area in the Central Pacific Ocean to industrial fishing while also recommending the reopening of other Pacific MPAs.In a Jan. 23 letter to President Donald Trump, Radewagen called for his administration to open the vast majority of the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument (PIH) to commercial tuna fishing.
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1 month ago | 
pina.com.fj | Edward Carver
By Edward CarverFisheries observers hold a job little known by the general public but essential to the health of the oceans: monitoring the work on industrial fishing vessels. The sector has its share of illegal fishing and even other illicit activity, so the job comes with risks. A new documentary shows just how dangerous it is. Fatal Watch, co-directed by Katie Carpenter and Mark Benjamin, focuses on four unsolved cases in which fisheries observers died or disappeared during the last decade.
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1 month ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
A new documentary, ‘Fatal Watch,’ shows the dangers of work as a fisheries observer, a job that involves collecting scientific data aboard industrial fishing vessels and documenting compliance with conservation and other rules. The film focuses on four cases in which fisheries observers died or disappeared on the job during the last decade.
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1 month ago | 
news.mongabay.com | Edward Carver
U.S. Congresswoman Amata Radewagen, who represents American Samoa, has urged the Trump administration to reopen most of Pacific Islands Heritage (PIH) Marine National Monument, a vast protected area in the Central Pacific Ocean, to industrial tuna fishing. Radewagen’s request came in a letter to President Donald Trump dated Jan. 23.
