Panel and Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 15 – Question regarding Transnational Crime on the high seas and Criminal Jurisdiction
Gary Orr – Organised Crime
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 11 – Nondumiso Mfenyane of Management Centre for Fishing at the Maritime Safety Authority SA introduces Gary Orr of Compliance Operations Manager of Primary Industries, New Zealand. We are dealing with highly organised crime and we need pro-active, […]
Jon Witlow – Panel and Discussion
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 18 – Jon Witlow – Panel and Discussion regarding the value of media exposes, level of political will to prosecute, profile of fishing vessels
Bernard Liedemann – Slave Labour and Asset Seizure
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 14 – Bernard Liedemann – Slave Labour, Asset Seizure, Paying Informants, International Co-operation and Fear of Retaliation against Officials.
Bernard Liedemann – DAFF – Crime on the High Seas
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 13 – Bernard Liedemann, DAFF – The need for a Multi-national body to be established to deal with crime on the high seas.
Discussion on Whistleblowers – Burden of Proof on Perpetrators
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 12 – Discussion on Whistleblowers, Compensation for same, Burden of Proof to be placed on Perpetrators
Kirsten Bjoru NORAD – We have the Tools
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 4 – Kirsten Bjoru, Senior Adviser NORAD, Dept of Climate, Energy and Environment Norway – We have the tools we need to follow-up
Marcel Cruse – Smart Fish
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 5 – Marcel Cruse – Indian Ocean Smart Fish Project – This is a programme for the Implementation of a Regional Fisheries Strategy for the Eastern and Southern Africa – Indian Ocean Region
Commander Dr Kamal-Deen Ali – Ghana Fish Crime
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 8 – Commander Dr Kamal-Deen Ali, Navy Legal Advisor Ghana and Executive Director of Maritime Law and Security, Fish Crime common in Ghana, Yellow Card, EU **RETRACTION NOTICE** We would like to apologize for the incorrect spelling of […]
Marcus Asner – US Attorney – Prosecutor Bengis Case
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 8 – US Attorney, Marcus Asner, currently a lawyer in New York, was a federal prosecutor between 2000 to 2009 in Manhattan, and prosecuted amongst others, the James Bengis South and West coast Rock lobster and Patagonian toothfish […]
Prof Jan Glazewski – UCT
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 9 – Prof Jan Glazewski – Environmental and Maritime Law – UCT SA – 31 countries and 200 participants at the symposium – very important step towards dealing with fish crime.
Mark Marcovino – Law Enforcement and Moving Sushi
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 7 – Marco Marcovino, EU Commission for Monitoring, Control and Surveillance of Fisheries; Multi-party Task team in Tanzania on Environmental Organised Crime, and leads an NPO called Moving Sushi, which provides ope access to an International Marine Database […]
Chris Kasten – WWF SA Sustainable Seafood Initiative
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 3 – Chris Kasten from World Wildlife Fund and the Southern African Sustainable Seafood Initiative – Green List is fish that is produced in a sustainable and responsible manner, Orange List are fish sources that are cause for […]
Tor Wisler – Norwegian Fishing Ministry and Interpol
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 1 – Tor Wisler, Directorate of Fisheries, Norway and Interpol Fish Crime Working Group. Co-operation is vital for intelligence, surveillance and analysis. We need to take the threat to fish populations seriously or we will have problems in […]
Per Erik Bergh – Stop Illegal Fishing – Botswana
Fish Crime Symposium, Dept of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries, Cape Town, 12-15 October 2015, Day 2 No 2 – Per Erik Bergh, Stop Illegal Fishing, Secretary, Botswana, the difficulty is that most of these crimes are committed far out to sea and there is no oversight. We are motivating governments to intervene.