WWF report on illegal Russian crab is mostly focused on older data; says current conditions improving
SEAFOODNEWS.COM by John Sackton - Oct 17, 2014
The World Wildlife Fund has released a report (
link) charging that there remains a significant problem with illegally harvested king crab in Russia.
To make this case, the WWF relies on customs data over the past ten years - during which time there was a well known and highly publicized illegal fishery, which resulted in trials and arrests of some of the principal operators.
However, the Russian government has been attempting to crack down on this level of IUU fishing for years, and WWF admits that this has had some success. WWF's own data show that their estimates of IUU crab harvest in Russia in 2013 was the lowest in 14 years...
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