Illegal fishing on the Galápagos high seas
Date of Publication
2017 12:00 AM
Security Theme
IUU Fishing
Keywords
IUU Fishing, 1982 United Nations Convention on Law of the Seas (UNCLOS)
Description
largest global shark biomass, marine ecosystem, per UNCLOS nations can fish in waters between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.No incentive to not fish there, no Ecuadorian monitoring system. In 2017 a Chinese fleet of 300 boats threatened shark reserves in the Galapagos.13 August Ecuador's Armada in Galapagos Marine Reserve confiscated a Chinese ship carrying 300 TONS of FISH including illegally caught tuna and 6000 sharks, incl. threatened shark species
Illegal fishing on the Galápagos high seas
largest global shark biomass, marine ecosystem, per UNCLOS nations can fish in waters between Ecuador and the Galapagos Islands.No incentive to not fish there, no Ecuadorian monitoring system. In 2017 a Chinese fleet of 300 boats threatened shark reserves in the Galapagos.13 August Ecuador's Armada in Galapagos Marine Reserve confiscated a Chinese ship carrying 300 TONS of FISH including illegally caught tuna and 6000 sharks, incl. threatened shark species