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Documents - by title
Below you can find a range of key documents useful for understanding the issues and debates around IUU fishing and its control.
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Transnational Organized Crime in the Fishing Industry
03/04/2011
The fishing industry is a large economic activity, conducted on a global scale. It provides work opportunity and food supply for billions of people. T ...
Trawling in the Mist: Industrial Fisheries in the Russian Part of the Bering Sea
13/12/2001
The Bering Sea provided around half of Russia‘s marine harvest in the 1990s. However, this report suggests that the regulation of the fishing ind ...
Author: TRAFFIC (Alexey Vaisman)
Tuna in Trouble: Major Problems for the World‘s Tuna Fisheries
22/01/2007
This briefing provides a background to the January 2007 meeting of the five tuna RFMOs in Kobe, Japan. It highlights the worrying state of the world&# ...
Author: WWF
The UK Action Plan on implementing the recommendations of the High Seas Task Force on illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing
01/05/2006
This document sets out an Action Plan articulating the UK’s role in taking forward a set of nine proposals recommended by the High Seas Task Forc ...
Author: UK Government
UN Fish Stocks Agreement
04/12/1995
Full title: Agreement for the Implementation of the Provisions of the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea of 10 December 1982 Relating to ...
Author: UN
Understanding China's Fish Trade and Traceability Systems
17/08/2009
The author of this report suggests that China has made considerable progress in improving the traceability of its fish processing industry, but will n ...
Author: TRAFFIC / WWF (Shelley Clarke)
Understanding Non-Compliance in the Marine Environment
01/05/2004
This paper is part of the series ‘Trends and Issues in Crime and Criminal Justice‘ published by the Australian Institute of Criminology. It ...
Author: Australian Institute of Criminology (Russell Smith and Katherine Anderson)
United Nations Open-ended Informal Consultative Process on Oceans and the Law of the Sea
25/06/2007
Agenda for the 8th meeting of the Consultative Process. The focus is on marine genetic resources. ...
Author: United Nations
United States Africa Command Posture Statement 2009
18/03/2009
This booklet contains the text of US Africa Commands written testimony to the US Congress in March 2009. This posture statement describes the US Afric ...
Author: United States Africa Command
US Congress Report no. 111-228: To Strengthen Enforcement Mechanisms to Stop Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing, and for Other Purposes
21/09/2009
If passed, this regulation would strengthen the authority of NOAA to enforce fisheries laws and combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fish ...
Author: US Congress
The Use of Driftnets by the Moroccan fleet
01/11/2006
As part of its 2006 campaign, Oceana travelled for three months on board Oceana Ranger research vessel in order to document and report the most signif ...
Author: Oceana
The Use of Driftnets: a Scandal for Europe, a Mockery of the United Nations
01/08/2005
This report documents the results of Oceana’s expedition in its ship, Ranger, to the south of the Tyrrhenian Sea and Sardinia in July and August ...
Author: Oceana
The Use of Port State Measures to Improve Fisheries Compliance
01/11/2006
This paper suggests there is increasing international support for regionally and globally coordinated approaches to Port
State control in order to av ...
Author: Fabra A, Gascón V and Werner R
Waypoint Online Newsletter September 2006
01/09/2006
This newsletter contains an article on the devastating impacts of illegal shark fishing on shark populations in Australian waters. ...
Author: Australian Institute of Marine Science
When Bad Gets Worse: Corruption and Fisheries
01/01/2008
This paper explore corruption at different stages of fisheries management, illustrated with case studies, and proposes several suggestions on how to m ...
Author: IUCN (Ussif Rashid Sumaila & Jennifer Jacquet)
When Fishing Turns Deadly - The Environmental and Social Impacts of Illegal Trawling in North Sumatra.
09/06/2009
This report states that it has been estimated that widespread illegal trawling has resulted in a 40% decrease in catch per fisher in the Malacca Strai ...
Author: Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Where Have All the Tuna Gone?
23/05/2006
This report examines the state of bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean Sea, reviews the different sources of information available on the fishery and on ...
Author: Greenpeace
While Stocks Last - Supermarkets and the Future of Seafood
06/05/2009
This report, commissioned by Greenpeace, exposes a disturbing picture of New Zealand's commercial fisheries and seafood sector. It makes a link b ...
Author: Greenpeace
Who's Eating all the Fish? The Food Security Rationale for Culling Cetaceans
23/06/2008
This report for the Humane Society International contrasts the widely different impacts of fisheries and marine mammals with fisheries targeting large ...
Author: Pauly, Daniel & Swartz, Wilf
With an Eye to the Future: Addressing Failures in the Global Management of Bigeye Tuna
21/11/2007
This report claims that bigeye tuna are under threat because authorities are failing to recognise the extent of over-fishing. In the eastern Pacific, ...
Author: WWF & TRAFFIC (Mary Lack)
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