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signing the MoU, both parties agreed
to promote each other’s work through NEW
their respective social media platforms,
collaborate on conducting skipper
training workshops to promote best-
practice fishing, support the collection of
catch-and-effort and other fishery data,
support and assist in promoting the
reduction of plastic use in tuna fisheries,
as well as support activities that ensure
an improved understanding of social
and economic conditions.
Another of the agreement’s key
priorities, according to the IPNLF press
release, will be attracting new talent and
young jobseekers to the Maldives’ tuna
fishing sector. Using carefully selected
imagery and videos – shared through
highly popular social media platforms
– Dhivehi Masverin has already been
successfully building up the engagement
of younger generations with one-by-one
fishing. NEW Jonsson System Peels

Import ban to protect Shrimp in All These Styles:
endangered porpoises

Mexico/US - The US National Marine
Fisheries Service (NMFS) has announced • Tail on round style
that it will ban imports of Mexican • Tail on 2 to 4 style
shrimp and other seafood caught in
the habitat of the critically endangered • Tail on 2 to 5 style
vaquita porpoise. The import ban places • Tail on peeled, not deveined style
pressure on the Mexican government
to stop the use of gillnets that are
entangling vaquitas. The action is being Peel more shrimp
taken under the Marine Mammal in less time
Protection Act (MMPA), which requires and less space
the US government to prohibit the
import of seafood caught using fishing with fewer people
gear that kills marine mammals in excess at lower cost
of United States’ standards. The US and improve product appearance & quality
imported approximately 85 000 tonnes all at the same time!
of fish and fishery products from Mexico
in 2019 (+1.62% from 2018).

New Fisheries Minister brings Get the facts. Contact us today.
changes

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