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“There is no sustainability without accountability”

Accountability.Fish Blasts WCPFC For Continued Meeting Secrecy

September 18, 2023

Time for Action Not Words – Making Pacific Tuna Sustainable

If you’ve eaten a tuna sandwich or salad, there’s a good chance your meal was caught in the western and central Pacific Ocean.

August 1, 2023

“END THE YEARS OF SECRECY”

Accountability.Fish Applies for “Unconditional” WCPFC Observer Status

May 2, 2023

It’s time to move on from “fisheries management”

The last year has seen some promising changes in the global framework for environmental governance. COP27 and COP15, while they didn’t go as far as necessary to hold back the…

March 30, 2023

Conservationists, Market players endorse common principles to open up fisheries decision-making

Calling for the immediate opening of international fisheries management bodies’ deliberations to public accountability and scrutiny, a global coalition of conservationists and fisheries market players has endorsed a common set…

March 20, 2023

Call for urgent action to keep industrial fishers from “pulling a fast one” following UN Treaty agreement

Noting that the timing for ratification and implementation of a new UN High Seas Treaty has yet to be set, Accountability.Fish Global Director Ryan Orgera today called for “urgent action”…

March 7, 2023 Accountability.Fish

Fisheries governance reform still needed even as high seas treaty agreement

While the shape of a long-term UN treaty to protect high seas marine life was agreed last week, fisheries governance pressure group Accountability.Fish called today for immediate action to make…

March 6, 2023 Accountability.Fish

Overfishing: citizens in Latam/South Pacific see economic case for change

Overfishing is not merely an environmental concern – it’s a pressing economic issue and is seen as such by citizens in developing countries on opposite ends of the world. That…

December 7, 2022 Accountability.Fish x ClearPath Strategies

Mismanaged Fisheries are an Economic Threat

Building support for protecting fisheries begins at the kitchen table. It is an economic issue. It is about protecting jobs. Creating new jobs. Fishing jobs, yes. But also canning jobs,…

November 28, 2022 Politico

Bringing accountability to the dark and murky world of RFMOs: The case for Accountability.Fish

Diving in to address the problems of Regional Fisheries Management Organizations – with a pledge for transparency, people and planet. If you have ever eaten a can of tuna, you…

November 28, 2022

It’s Time for Accountability: Movement Launches to Fight Fisheries Misgovernance, Secure Equal Stakeholder Access

FARO, PORTUGAL: “With the world’s fisheries and oceans at a potential tipping point – it’s time for some real accountability to be brought to the murky world of fisheries governance.…