A small project to test four types of electronic crane scales may grow into a transhipping process that benefits crews, skippers, vessel managers, scientists and regulators, project members hope. If...
Francisco Blaha
Mending the nets a challenging job: postcard from Noro
Mending fishing nets is no easy task when the net is from a purse-seiner and may be up to 3,000 metres long and 300–400 metres deep, and weigh 6 tonnes, as in the case of super-seiners. The design...
The Marshall Islands and Thailand establish cooperation and exchange of information to prevent IUU fishing practices
Republished from Francisco Blaha's Blog FEBRUARY 23, 2019 I have been at the 6th Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop (GFETW) here in Bangkok since the 18 February. As we ( the Marshall...
The types of states in a catch documentation scheme
Republished from Francisco Blaha's blog, 14 March 2018 by Francisco Blaha I promised that I would slowly digest and post parts of our CDS publication to bring some of the key elements to the...
