Malaysia: Customs seize 50 #rhino horns at Kuala Lumpur airport en route to Vietnam, the largest haul of such contraband in the country goo.gl/CFqzY7 via Daily Mail Online #wildlifecrime #wildlifetrafficking

Trevor Branch Bill gates walks into a bar and on average everyone is a millionaire. Government import use of harmonized codes is supposed to make trade easier and faster but is a huge reason seafood is in its current predicament. See great work on this by Donna Cawthorn onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11…

A new CIFOR/CBD book on wild meat use, governance and best-practice will be available on 3 Dec. 2018. It provides recommendations to CBD Parties and other stakeholders on achieving a sustainable, participatory and inclusive sector. Full version cifor.org/pid/7046

It's happening. @Oceana et al are suing the Trump Administration to stop seismic testing in the Atlantic. Not only does it harm cetaceans, it kills zooplankton and has sub-lethal effects on inverts, including commercially important species. #blocktheblast usa.oceana.org/press-releases…

Hugely important ocean conservation news. For decades, Japan has worked within the auspices of the IWC. A resumption of commercial whaling could involve whaling on protected species, and large increases in whale catches.

New study from @Oceana Oceana Perú finds that 43% of tested seafood dishes in Peru were mislabeled - endangered shark was passed off in ceviche. usnews.com/news/best-coun… via JC Riveros ping Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 @dgolae Mongabay Latam Kimberly Warner Dustin Cranor Cecilia Barriga Bahamonde

A final summary for our #seafood traceability project SNAPtrace from the EU Research Results website: cordis.europa.eu/project/rcn/20… also available in 6 languages. Donna Cawthorn

Retraction of paper saying 10-20% of crab, pollock, and salmon caught in Alaska and exported to Japan are illegal, unregulated or unreported. Revised number e.g. 2% of pollock. Result of huge debate between Tony J Pitcher vs Ray Hilborn & NOAA Fisheries intrafish.com/fisheries/1670…

Recent news about forced labour in the tuna fishing industry highlights the importance of working towards eradicating this issue. The Marine Stewardship Council have taken measures to exclude forced labour in MSC certified fisheries and supply chains: msc.org/media-centre/p…

Our new technical report guiding actions towards #sustainable wild meat trade #bushmeat #hunting #livelihoods #Conservation

Mandy Rude Daniel Kachelriess Amanda Vincent Dr. David Shiffman 🦈 CITES Edward van Asch Tim OCONNELL Francisco Blaha UN Office on Drugs & Crime I worry that “mislabeling” is a cute term intended not to disrup the business as usual scenario. If a wild animal is taken illegally and sold that that is wildlife crime. Are fisheries not subject to the same scrutiny? Adding in Donna Cawthorn and Tim Fitzgerald

It’s on boats, in warehouses and in your home: Study says seafood fraud is everywhere oceana.ca/en/blog/its-bo…

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing threatens marine ecosystems, not to mention that are often linked to criminal networks. #MSCA SNAPtrace project takes snappers as a model to investigate the issue using DNA barcoding 🐟🧬 cordis.europa.eu/research-eu/en (March 2019 - p. 23)

Our new project Bushmeat and livelihoods with Oak Foundation University of Mpumalanga Kruger National Park aims to enhance #bushmeat governance in the Great Limpopo Transfrontier Conservation Area (GLTFCA) for the benefit of #wildlife and #communities #livelihoods #sustainability

Glad to see this out now: illuminating #grouper trade in #TurksAndCaicos, placed in a global context. Clever work by Marta Calosso Donna Cawthorn John Claydon #seafood Marine Stewardship Council Seafood Watch Oceana Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

New study from us about #grouper as #seafood (spoiler: most of it ain't grouper...). Lovely teamwork by Marta Calosso John Claydon Stefano Mariani & Donna Cawthorn sciencedirect.com/science/articl… And admire those gorgeous figures! #OA LJMU Biology EERC Salford Sustainable Fisheries UW World Ocean Initiative

Really proud of our new study (Marta Calosso John Claydon Stefano Mariani Donna Cawthorn) showing widespread use of imported #seafood species as substitutes for #grouper in #TurksandCaicos doi.org/10.1016/j.bioc… #SSF #smallscalefisheries #seafoodmislabelling #bluejustice

Revealed: seafood fraud happening on a vast global scale theguardian.com/environment/20…

New word for me: "agnotogenesis" the creating and spreading of doubt. pnas.org/content/118/15…

Our grouper mislabelling talk (me, Marta Calosso , Stefano Mariani & Donna Cawthorn) is coming up soon at #GCFI75 IMBeR Ocean Frontier Institute