Every year the National Environment Service (NES) sends two park rangers to Suwarrow for six to eight months of the year to protect and manage the environment and wildlife of the island – a designated national park and bird sanctuary since 1978...The rangers play a key role in ensuring the
Researchers believe a new approach to policing marine parks, including tackling the psychology of poaching, could yield massive benefits for fish numbers. Dr. Brock Bergseth from James Cook University led a study that looked at how Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) could be made more effective.
The South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization took a historic decision to adopt a U.S. proposal to establish comprehensive SPRFMO-specific high seas boarding and inspection procedures.
Illegal fishing continues to be a challenge in Vatu-i-Ra waters, the site of Fiji’s biggest conservation park. So much so that local fish wardens are hoping they would be equipped with more patrol boats to boost monitoring and surveillance in the area, where fishing is banned and public acce
In February 2019, the 60-meter-long South Korean fishing vessel Oyang 77 slipped into Argentinian waters and deployed its trawl nets, hauling in more than 140 tons of hake, skate, and squid.
Do you collect souvenirs when you travel? If you’re anything like me you have shelf after shelf of them in all shapes and sizes – some novel, some deeply sentimental, and some very expensive! But does your collection include tortoiseshell products?
A new satellite system is being deployed by a U.S.-led alliance to help Asian nations protect their seas from illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing.
The U.S. Coast Guard said in a statement that the crew from the U.S.
The United States through its Coast Guard Cutter Stratton is continuing with its coordinated efforts to detect and halt illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing as well as drug smuggling and transnational crime.
Vanuatu's new patrol boat, RVS Takuare, spotted four foreign vessels in Vanuatu's Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) between October 25 to November 5, as part of its first ever operation known as 'Kuru Kuru'.