The 13th annual meeting of South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO) ended without agreement on banning gillnets, direct deep-water shark fishing and shark finning, the European Commission reported with regret on Tuesday 6 December.
At their meeting in South Africa, which ended on 2 December, SEAFO members adopted an EU proposal to upgrade the system of fisheries monitoring and compliance. The meeting also adopted total allowable catches (TACs) for the main SEAFO species, based on...