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Out of sight, out of control. 🦑🌊 Squid fleets fish vast areas with no catch limits, no reporting, no monitoring. Join EJF at #COP17 for our new film and panel. 📍 Ocean Pavilion, 28 Oct, 16:00 🔗 Register here: luma.com/i1xcz13f

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Squid are prey for sperm whales, seabirds, tuna and sharks. Taking huge volumes from populations that nobody manages ripples through the whole ocean food web.

Environmental Justice Foundation

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Our film draws on testimony from 431 Indonesian and Filipino fishers on 249 vessels. They describe abuse that the absence of regulation keeps hidden.

Environmental Justice Foundation

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Trans-shipment at sea, switched-off tracking, unreported catch: fleets operate unseen and avoid prosecution. High-seas MPAs under #BBNJ won't deliver if the fishing around them stays unregulated.

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Solutions exist: the Global Charter for Fisheries Transparency, area-based management tools, and Article 5 of the WTO fisheries subsidies agreement, which bars subsidies for fishing on the unregulated high seas. Governments need to act. Read the Global Charter here:

ejfoundation.orgGlobal Charter for Fisheries TransparencyThe Global Charter comprises ten holistic, no-cost to low-cost measures for greater transparency in the global fishing sector to enable sustainable,…