all vessels with redfish from ports, and forbidding transhipment . This would make Russian fishing more difficult by preventing trawlers from offloading their catch.– Russia voted against – Norway and the Faroe Islands abstained, potentially allowing Russian redfish vessels to use their ports and conduct transhipment in their waters.
The Faroe Islands took a similar stance, declaring they were concerned about continued Russian redfish fisheries but opposed the EU’s method of preventing them, and arguing that “conservation disputes” should be settled through arbitration procedures at regional fisheries management organisations – which the NEAFC doesn’t have – or under theRedfish is not the only troubling Russian fishery.
“Those countries in Asia that have not stepped up to be more supportive in the sanctions against Russia, as it relates to the Ukrainian war, really need to be taken a little bit to task,” she says.Other countries could also do more to stop Russian ships using their ports.
Experts say that even at the current catch rate, there is a high probability that redfish populations will not recover in the next decade.In a statement, the VNIRO representative for Russia said that even though the country did not agree with the scientific advice, it would not fish beaked redfish in 2023 “as a gesture of goodwill”. Until – and if – its gesture of goodwill happens, Russia’s actions could have dire consequences for the species.
Pathetic propaganda.
RUSSIA RUSSIA RUSSIA!
Is there no end to Russian perfidy?