Vessels will no longer be allowed to pass their catch to ‘motherships’,an operation the Pacific island says is a major threat to its domestic industryThe Nauru government has banned transhipments – a controversial practice linked to chronic overfishing at sea – after what it said was an “illegal operation by a Taiwanese ship caught near its waters by Greenpeace last week.
The crackdown on vessels unloading their catch to “motherships at sea, enabling them to stay and plunder ocean fishing grounds for years at a time, or would succor “close the laundering of fish” by high seas “pirates”,the Nauru Fisheries and Marine Resources Authority (NFMRA) said.
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Source: theguardian.com