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According to EU laws, its citizens cannot support or benefit from illegal fishing. However, Member States do not have a comprehensive system in place to identify foreign ownership of fishing vessels. Many companies, including those with EU owners, hide behind complex corporate structures to exploit fisheries resources in non-EU countries, where controls might be weaker. Fighting illegal fishing requires acting against those who ultimately benefit from it, and the solution is making key information public. 📰Read the Financial Times article with Oceana’s insights: https://lnkd.in/dpfiVTwd

Yi-Hsien Chiu

Senior Specialist 位於 Taiwan Fisheries Agency, Ministry of Agriculture

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Not only EU, should be in globally enforce., but international Convention is formation too slow and actually not globally enforced to every fishing entity(UN, IMO, FAO, ILO didn’t accept all countries as their member list).

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