Nauru bans transhipments to tackle overfishing in wake of Greenpeace bust

The Nauru government has banned transhipments – a controversial practice linked to chronic overfishing at sea – after an “illegal operation” by a Taiwanese ship caught near its waters by Greenpeace. The Nauru Fisheries and Marine Resources Authority (NFMRA) exlained that the crackdown on vessels unloading their catch to “motherships” at sea, enabling them to stay and plunder ocean fishing grounds for years at a time, would help “end the laundering of fish” by high seas “pirates”. Activists on the Greenpeace ship Rainbow Warrior II announced the discovery of a huge pirate tuna fishing operation in waters around Nauru, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia.

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