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This report reveals dolphins are being deliberately targeted by Taiwanese fishing vessels to use as bait to catch sharks, a practice that often goes alongside mistreatment of crew.

This report is a scoping assessment of fisher perspectives on non-fisheries livelihood opportunities in Ghana’s Central Region.

This briefing summarises the key findings of a legal opinion delivered by Ghanaian legal consultancy the Taylor Crabbe Innitiative (TCi) to the Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) in November 2019. In the opinion, TCi analyses the procedure for licensing industrial vessels to fish in Ghanaian waters and alignment of current practice with the provisions of the 1992 Constitution.

This technical brief focuses on how best to implement a central principle of EJF’s Charter for Transparency: publishing punishments handed out for illegal fishing and fisheries crimes.

This report helps states to implement two key principles of EJF’s Charter for Transparency: publishing lists of fishing licences and authorisations and publishing punishments handed out for illegal fishing and fisheries crimes. The Charter for Transparency consists of ten simple, low-cost measures that could play a pivotal role in the battle against illegal fishing.