Dan Skerritt

The future of Beneficial Ownership Reforms CSO Review Past and Future Discussion

🧑‍💼💲Watch our panel "Beneficial Ownership Reforms: Ensuring Impact and Innovation across High-Risk Sectors" from IMF & World Bank Annual Meetings 2025

🐟Fisheries chat starts @ 29 mins🐟

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@oceana.bsky.social
@fiti-global.bsky.social
@taxjustice.net
@anticorruption.bsky.social

Speakers:
🎙️Emilia Berazategui (IMF)
💼Ivana Rossi (IMF Legal Dept)
🌍Andres Knobel, @taxjustice.net
🐟Daniel Skerritt, @oceanauk.bsky.social
💰Katherine Wilkins, @anticorruption.bsky.social

🚨Excited to join IMF & World Bank Annual Meetings 2025!

The Future of Beneficial Ownership Reforms: Ensuring Impact and Innovation across High-Risk Sectors
How to drive change in sectors like real estate, crypto, and fisheries?

🗓️Wednesday, 15 Oct, 1400 EDT
📍Online 👉 lnkd.in/gQvwdRHj

Updated and expanded analysis of fuel tax concessions for the commercial fishing fleet of the United Kingdom Fuel represents one of the most substantial cost items for commercial fishing enterprises. Despite growing government commitments to reducing carbon e…

NEW PAPER: Updated & expanded analysis of fuel tax concessions for UK fishing fleet
⛽ In 2022 FTCs=£121m in foregone revenue
🐟 Supporting our industry is vital—but must align w/ environmental goals & be equitable
🌍 FTCs sustain profitability but raise sustainability questions

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Fisheries Subsidies Agreement Explained with Oceana's Dan Skerritt

🐟🎙️Fisheries Subsidies Agreement Explained🎙️🐟
I sat down with @andrewlewin.bsky.social on the "How to Protect the Ocean" podcast to talk about fisheries subsidies—what the new agreement means, where gaps remain, and how developing nations can be supported.
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What the WTO’s deal to curb fisheries subsidies means and what it could achieve For decades, government subsidies have helped industrial fishing fleets to expand, often with little regard for sustainability.

@wto.org Fisheries Subsidies Agreement is a major milestone, but it’s only the beginning. Here’s what it covers, why it matters and what needs to happen next...
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@oceana.bsky.social
@ubcoceans.bsky.social
@fiti-global.bsky.social

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The Society for Conservation Biology - Marine Global Program is excited to announce that #IMCC8 will take place in #Edinburgh, Scotland from November 13-17, 2026!
Join us to help Make Marine Science Matter!
#marinescience #conservation #conference

WTO’s Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies Enters into Force While this marks a milestone, more action is needed to safeguard fish and the communities that depend on them before time runs out.

Today, @wto.org Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies enters into force—“While this is a rare piece of good news in the fight against harmful subsidies, the WTO is just starting this race and the clock is ticking”...
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@oceana.bsky.social
@fiti-global.bsky.social

Managing Fishing Vessels: Uncovering the Hidden Ownership of Industrial Fleets Podcast Episode · How To Protect The Ocean · 2025-08-17 · 1h

I had a great time chatting with @andrewlewin.bsky.social on the 'How to Protect the Ocean' podcast the other week.

We spoke about the ownership of distant-water fishing vessels, amongst other things.

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Our Lives - Series 9: Female Fishermen: Beyond the Buoys Britain’s boats need crew, and three young women – Brooke, Erin and Emma – are stepping up. Proud to call themselves ‘fishermen’, they show that traditions can evolve.

🎣 Well worth a watch. New BBC documentary shines a light on female fishers in the UK and the positive future they represent for the fishing industry.

🐟”Female Fishermen: Beyond the Buoys”

👉 Watch it on BBC iPlayer: www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Globalism, localism and blue food systems – How can cross-scale tensions be reduced? A production perspective from UK seafood stakeholders ‘Blue foods’ are derived from aquatic species that are caught or cultivated and are amongst the most globally traded commodities. Growing emphasis is …

🚨NEW PAPER: Globalism, Localism & Blue Food Systems – How can cross-scale tensions be reduced?

We explore how a collaborative national blue food strategy could help re-localise seafood, manage cross-scale tension, and balance global market forces with local needs.

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NGO funding opportunity for marine conservation in West Africa.
🌊 €30-40K over 12 months.
🌊 Deadline 25 August
🌊 Call for proposal by #PRCM ➡️ ogy.de/j7t3
#OceanOptimism

🚨NEW PAPER: "Unequal competition: The fate of domestic fisheries facing DWF in SW Atlantic Ocean"
🌍 DWF more efficient, encroaching EEZs
🐟 Domestic fleets effort reducing & lower tuna prices
🌐 Domestic fleets turn to subsidies
🧪 Need stronger regs to protect SSF & ensure equity
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🚨 No corruption.
No scandal.
Just an excuse to shut us up.

Today, the European Parliament’s Conference of Presidents agreed to set up a special working group to scrutinise NGO funding. At the @eppgroup.bsky.social's request.

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Enjoy the celebrations! Nice is warming up nicely 🐟🌊🧪

The One Ocean Science Congress starts today, in Nice 🇫🇷🐟🧪
#OOSC

Beyond the Flag | Oceana A new study commissioned by Oceana provides the most comprehensive mapping of ownership to date of the world’s large-scale fishing (LSF) fleet. The report found that nearly two-thirds of LSF vessels l...

🚨Who really owns the world’s LSF fleet?🚨
Our new policy brief, "Beyond the Flag", finds that 62% of LSF vessels have no ownership info available—and 1/6 are owned in a different country to their flag.

We map ownership of 7,000 vessels & provide 8 key policy fixes: oceana.org/reports/beyo...
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Beyond the Flag | Oceana A new study commissioned by Oceana provides the most comprehensive mapping of ownership to date of the world’s large-scale fishing (LSF) fleet. The report found that nearly two-thirds of LSF vessels l...

🚨🚨 New report alert! 🚨🚨

We have a new from Oceana and its partners on the mapping of the world's large scale fishing fleets. We've got it all here - flagging in, beneficial ownership, opaque corporate ownership chains, State level recommendations and so much more.

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Liberia joins FiTI! - FiTI - Fisheries Transparency Initiative MONROVIA, 21 May 2025. The Republic of Liberia has taken a significant step towards enhancing fisheries governance by joining the Fisheries Transparency Initiative (FiTI). This commitment demonstrates...

⭐Liberia joins FiTI⭐
Having spent quite a few months in Liberia, I'm particularly pleased to see them join @fiti-global.bsky.social A wonderful country with some amazingly rich fisheries, both at sea and inland... Welcome!

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Beyond the Flag | Oceana A new study commissioned by Oceana provides the most comprehensive mapping of ownership to date of the world’s large-scale fishing (LSF) fleet. The report found that nearly two-thirds of LSF vessels l...

🚨Who really owns the world’s LSF fleet?🚨
Our new policy brief, "Beyond the Flag", finds that 62% of LSF vessels have no ownership info available—and 1/6 are owned in a different country to their flag.

We map ownership of 7,000 vessels & provide 8 key policy fixes: oceana.org/reports/beyo...
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Sad I won't be there, but excited I joined FiTI as we enter the next decade🎉🎂🎉
A key challenge w/ fisheries transparency is it's often discussed vaguely. FiTI works w/ stakeholders to understand exactly what should be made public, by whom, why... and (importantly) HOW!
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@fiti-global.bsky.social

Approaching 1 year as Associate Editor & Editorial Board Member w/ Marine Policy. I've made decisions on 24 papers after review, rejected 9, accepted 15, and 28 in progress...
For sure the hardest thing is finding reviewers 🥲
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@elsevierconnect.bsky.social @sebasvillasante.bsky.social

Comparison of proportion of respondents in each country who have heard of climate change and believe the actor most responsible for limiting climate change is their own government, ordinary Africans, rich countries, or industry.

Most Africans place primary responsibility for climate action on their own government.

Our new paper in @natureportfolio.nature.com shows a further third see ordinary citizens as most responsible, while very few place responsibility on historical emitters that caused the climate crisis.

an artist 's impression of a space shuttle orbiting the earth Alt: an artist 's impression of a satellite orbiting the earth

Seeking someone who knows something about #satellite data of #methane emissions over water. Yes we've talked to #CarbonMapper & others. Wondering about quantitative map-making using other systems. This might lead to some contract work. DM me! Maybe there are some ex- #NOAA or #NASA folks out there.

Proud to be Visiting Fellow w/ the Modelling, Evidence & Policy Unit in the School of Natural & Environmental Sciences @newcastleuni.bsky.social.

Back after more than a decade away! As well as research, I'm excited for some occasional teaching & research supervision 🤓🦞🐟🧪🌊⚫⚪
#TOONARMY

There have been people less than helpful in my journey here. I wanted to acknowledge those too, bc I know I am not unique in this experience. No thank you to the physics study assoc that made me sing songs about how women couldn't study physics without sleeping with the professor, the day I stepped into university life. No thank you to the 5th year physics student that decided to assign me a stripper name within the first minute of meeting me in the physics coffee corner in my first year. No thank you to the technician that was responsible for onboarding me on the use of the cluster in my third year who raised his eyebrows and asked me if that meant I was some sort of computer girl. No thank you to the senior researcher that sent me utterly inappropriate texts after a conference, then proceeded to apologise months later by telling me they had not been meant for me anyway so no hard feelings remain hopefully And no thank you to him for attending every conference I've been to since. No thank you to the people who told me that it was surprising that I was doing a PhD since I was a girl. No thank you to the man who mistook me for a coffee lady at a conference, and after having to correct him two times that I did not work there, responded with you should consider it. No thank you to the researcher that asked me what I was wearing underneath my outfit during a conference. No thank you to the physicist who declared to a room full of other physicists that biologists don't know how to design an experiment. No thank you to the people who have called me scary instead of strong and intimidating instead of intelligent. And finally, no thank you to the exec board of the TU Delft, whose knee-jerk reaction to being held up a mirror about the social safety at the university, was to sue the party holding up the mirror instead of looking at the problems they highlighted. ... You have made me feel like I do not belong in science & I cannot forgive you for that.

A friend included this anti-acknowledgement section on her PhD thesis. She also added the proposition: “Systematic bullying and undermining of girls and women in STEM starts early on and is the reason why they do not stay in science and related fields.”
Absurd we still need to go through this
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Members submitting acceptance of Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies The WTO Agreement on Fisheries Subsidies, adopted at the 12th Ministerial Conference (MC12) on 17 June 2022, marks a major step forward for ocean sustainability by prohibiting harmful fisheries subsid...

🚨🚨Only 20 ratifications to go🚨🚨

North Macedonia just ratified the WTO Fish 1 Agreement that aims to curb subsidies spent on overfishing and illegal fishing.

Looks like it may come in to force this year, which sets off the sunset clause for finalizing Fish 2 negotiations!

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