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Spain is a key market for squid harvested by foreign fleets in the unregulated Southwest Atlantic squid fishery, inadvertently driving unsustainable and illegal practices and undercutting domestic producers who must comply with stricter environmental and labour standards.

España es un mercado clave para el calamar capturado por flotas extranjeras en la Milla 201, impulsando inadvertidamente prácticas no sostenibles e ilegales y socavando a los productores nacionales que deben cumplir con normas medioambientales y laborales más estrictas.

This brief updates EJF’s report Levelling The Playing Field: Assessing the impact of Village Savings and Loans Associations (VSLAs) in Liberia’s coastal communities, which was published in 2024. The report assessed the impact of VSLAs on increasing women's participation in small-scale fisheries (SSF) decision- making processes and evaluated the effectiveness of VSLAs as a tool for empowering members of fishing communities.

This report from Coalition for Fisheries Transparency members EJF and Open Seas finds that UK consumers may unknowingly be buying seafood linked to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and severe human rights abuses, following a near-total end to checks on imported seafood after Brexit.

This report evaluates Liberia’s progress in implementing the ten principles of the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, a set of low- or no-cost steps to ensure sustainable, legal and ethical fisheries.

The European Union-funded Communities for Fisheries project aims to create skilled, capable and effective community co-management associations (CMAs) to secure legal and sustainable fisheries in Liberia. This brief summarises the project’s activities during the first half of Year Six, January to June 2025.

Call to stop sourcing tuna from Chinese vessels operating in the Indian Ocean due to the prevalence of illegal fishing, human rights abuses and forced labour associated with the fleet.

Vous rêvez de piller les océans, de tirer profit de la criminalité transnationale et d'échapper à la justice ? Ce guide pour les nuls afin de devenir le propriétaire caché de votre flotte de pêche est là pour vous montrer comment faire.

Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing is one of the most serious threats to ocean health, food security, and the livelihoods of legitimate fishers. This document explains how fisheries transparency is essential for ending it.