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Taiwanese Captain Sentenced 20 Years for Shark Finning in Tanzania

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 12 December 2018 The owner and captain of the Malaysian-flagged fishing vessel (F/V) Buah Naga 1  that was boarded and arrested by Tanzanian law enforcement agents as part of Operation Jodari, a joint partnership between Sea Shepherd, Fish-i Africa and the government of Tanzania to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, have pleaded guilty to the charge of Unlawful Possession of Shark Fins in a plea agreement with Tanzanian Prosecutors. The captain, Mr. Han Ming Chuan of a Taiwan, has been in custody since January 2018 when he was charged

Three Illegal Fishing Vessels Arrested: Sea Shepherd Returns to Gabon to Help Protect Africa’s Largest Marine Protected Area

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 10 July 2018 A year after Gabon’s President Ali Bongo Ondimba declared the creation of nine new national marine parks and 11 new aquatic reserves at the United Nations Ocean Conference in New York, the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd has returned to Gabon to assist the government in combatting illegal fishing in what is now Africa’s largest network of marine protected areas. Operation Albacore III is Sea Shepherd’s third campaign in partnership with the Gabonese government to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in Central West

Fleet Targeting Sharks in Timor Leste Released Without Charge

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 4 July 2018 The fleet of 15 industrial fishing vessels arrested for targeting sharks by Timor Leste authorities in September 2017, with assistance from marine conservation organization Sea Shepherd, have been released without charge. On September 9th 2017, Sea Shepherd’s M/V Ocean Warrior supported the Timor Leste National Police (Policia National Timor Leste - PNTL) in a dawn raid of the Fu Yuan Yu fleet of fifteen fishing vessels owned by the Chinese Hong Long Company, operating within the Southeast Asian waters of Timor Leste. The fleet, which had already

Sea Shepherd is calling on the Starbuck’s Corporation to sever its ties with the Hong Kong shark fin trade

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 14 June 2018 Sea Shepherd is calling on the Starbuck’s Corporation to sever its ties with the Hong Kong shark fin trade.  “The shark fin industry is not limited to just the shark fin traders, but spans from the fisherman who killed the shark all the way to the restaurants that serve shark’s fin soup. By licensing Starbuck’s brand to Maxim’s Caterers Limited who openly sell shark’s fin on their menus, Starbucks has partnered with the shark fin trade itself,” says Gary Stokes, Asia Director for Sea Shepherd Global. Starbucks was licensed to the Maxim’s

Successful Results Achieved in Sea Shepherd’s Second IUU Fishing Operation with Liberian Government

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 8 June 2018 After a total of twelve months of patrols and twelve arrests, Sea Shepherd Global’s second joint operation with the Liberian Ministry of National Defense to tackle illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing in the Republic of Liberia, West Africa, has resulted in a dramatic drop in incidents of illegal fishing and the return of fish populations in coastal waters formerly over-exploited by foreign trawlers. Before Operation Sola Stella commenced in early 2017, the artisanal fishing community of Harper, a Liberian town on the border with Cote

Sea Shepherd Hong Kong Reveals Illegal Shark Fin Shipments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 31st May 2018 On May 11th, 2018 Sea Shepherd Hong Kong discovered a large shipment of shark fins that arrived from Sri Lanka for Win Lee Fung Ltd of Hong Kong. The total shipment was 980kg which was flown to Hong Kong on a Singapore Airlines flight. Singapore Airlines had already joined other responsible airlines and banned the carriage of shark fins on all its routes.  “Singapore Airlines are yet another victim of these shark fin smugglers, who deceived the airline by declaring the shipment as ‘dried seafood’ to skirt the airlines internal booking checks,”

Arrest of poaching vessel shows shark liver oil production could drive species to extinction

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE December 19, 2017 The arrest of the internationally-blacklisted fishing vessel ‘Labiko 2’ by the Liberian Coast Guard, assisted by Sea Shepherd, gives insight into the shadowy and largely unregulated shark liver oil industry. After being kicked out of European waters, these unscrupulous owners and operators, mostly based out of Spain, have set their sights on West Africa. In the mid-1990s, the largely Spanish-owned fleet of approximately 50 deep-water shark fishing boats wreaked havoc in the North East Atlantic Ocean. For almost ten years, these vessels

BREAKING NEWS: Fishing fleet caught red-handed in a dawn raid by Sea Shepherd and East Timor National Police

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE September 12, 2017 East Timor (Timor Leste), Southeast Asia – A joint operation conducted at dawn on September 9th by the marine conservation group Sea Shepherd Global and the East Timor National Police (PNTL - Policia Nacionale Timor-Leste) resulted in the capture of the Hong Long Fisheries / Pingtan Marine Enterprises fishing fleet at anchor off the coast of Com, East Timor. At the request of the PNTL, Sea Shepherd’s patrol vessel M/Y Ocean Warrior and its small fast boat delivered armed police to board the vessels, along with drones to document the

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