Environmental Justice Foundation

🚨 Out of sight, out of control - a system that enables serious illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing revealed 🦑

After five years of investigations and more than 430 interviews with fishers, we uncovered a disturbing picture of the world’s three major squid fisheries.

Shark finning, the capture of vulnerable marine animals, and overfishing - this is how the global squid fleet operates when no one is watching.

These unregulated fisheries have enabled not only the proliferation of IUU fishing but also shocking human rights abuses.

These fleets supply the EU, US, China, Japan and South Korea, putting consumers at risk of buying tainted squid products and making governments and retailers complicit.

It’s time to bring the global squid industry into the spotlight.

We are demanding that governments close the governance gap, more effectively regulate the high seas, and implement the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency.

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🐟 À l'occasion de la journée internationale de lutte contre la pêche INN, les ministres appellent à un renforcement des mesures en faveur de la transparence en mer 🚨

Des décennies d'enquêtes menées par l'EJF ont révélé que la pêche illicite, non déclarée et non réglementée (INN) a poussé nos océans au bord du gouffre et favorisé des violations des droits humains. Ces crimes sont restés longtemps invisibles et impunis.

Il est temps d’instaurer une plus grande transparence : nous devons savoir qui pêche quoi, où, quand et comment, et qui en tire profit, afin de mettre fin à ces abus.

Hon Emelia Arthur, ministre ghanéenne de la Pêche et de l’Aquaculture, et Madame Catherine Chabaud, ministre déléguée française chargée de la Mer et de la Pêche, nous ont expliqué en quoi la transparence est essentielle pour progresser vers un océan sûr et durable.

La conférence « Our Ocean » qui se tiendra ce mois-ci au Kenya offre aux pays une occasion en or de prendre des engagements concrets en faveur d’une plus grande transparence. Ensemble, nous pouvons ouvrir la voie à un avenir plus durable et plus éthique pour notre océan commun.

🐟 On , ministers call on countries for greater action on transparency at sea 🚨

Decades of EJF investigations have revealed that illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing has pushed our ocean to the brink and enabled human rights abuses. These crimes have long gone unseen and unpunished.

It’s time for greater transparency now: We must know who is catching what, where, when and how, and who benefits, to bring these abuses out of the shadows.

The Honourable Emelia Arthur, Ghana’s Minister of Fisheries and Aquaculture, and Madame Catherine Chabaud, France’s Minister Delegate for the Sea and Fishery, spoke to us about how transparency is key to making progress for a safe, sustainable ocean.

The upcoming Our Ocean Conference in Kenya this month provides a golden opportunity for countries to make concrete commitments to greater transparency. Together, we can usher in a more sustainable and ethical future for our shared ocean.

Hon Emelia Arthur

🚨 New investigation exposes a global squid industry built on secrecy and exploitation 🦑

Widespread illegal fishing, environmental destruction, and shocking human rights abuses. This is the dark reality of the major fisheries that supply 60% of the world’s squid.

After five years of investigation and over 430 interviews with fishers who worked on board 249 distant-water fishing vessels, we have uncovered that severe abuse has become the norm across the squid fisheries in the Northwest Indian Ocean, Southeast Pacific and Southwest Atlantic.

Our film and report, the most comprehensive ever published, expose how systematic failures of governance on the high seas have allowed violence, repeated deaths at sea, shark finning, and the capture of vulnerable marine species to flourish unchecked.

The absence of transparency and effective regulation has also allowed squid caught with these abuses to enter global markets - putting consumers, retailers and governments at risk of being complicit.

However, we know the path forward. By combining strong enforcement, international cooperation, and fully implementing the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, governments can bring these fisheries under effective management and ensure that the rights of fishers and the health of our ocean are protected.

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