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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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'Oceans and the Law of the Sea'; 'Sustainable Fisheries': Texts Adopted
04/12/2009
Following an extensive debate on oceans and the law of the sea, the General Assembly adopted two wide-ranging resolutions meant to guide States in pre ...
Author: United Nations General Assembly
12th North Atlantic Fisheries Ministers Conference: Communiqu
23/06/2007
This is a brief note from the NEAFC conference held in Narsaq, Greenland 20-23 June 2007. It notes the real progress made in the continuing fight agai ...
Author: North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC)
1st Regional Meeting of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly: Southern Africa - Final Communique
29/04/2008
The 15 members of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly (ACP-EU JPA) from the SADC member states and the EU met in Windhoek, Namibia on 28-29 April ...
Author: ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly
2007-2008 Another two years of wide spread IUU fishing in the Mediterranean
17/11/2008
The authors claim this briefing provides more evidence of the failure of ICCAT Contracting Parties to save bluefin tuna from collapse. This paper is t ...
Author: Greenpeace
4th Chatham House IUU Fishing Update and Stakeholder Consultation Meeting
31/03/2008
The meeting agenda ...
Author: Chatham House
The Abuja Declaration on Sustainable Fisheries and Aquaculture in Africa
25/08/2005
This Declaration was adopted at Heads of State meeting held in Abuja, Nigeria in August 2005. The signatories committed to improved measures to manage ...
Author: NEPAD (New Partnership for Africa's Development)
Actions Taken by States and Regional Fisheries Management Organizations and Arrangements to Give Effect to Paragraphs 83 to 90 of General Assembly Resolution 61/105 of 8 December 2006 on Sustainable Fisheries
21/08/2009
This report follows the UN General Assembly resolution 61/105, in which the General Assembly requested States and RFMOs and other fisheries bodies to ...
Author: Secretary General, United Nations
Addressing Corruption in Pacific Island Fisheries
01/01/2008
This paper examines fisheries corruption in the Pacific Islands in three specific areas: licensing, access negotiations and monitoring and enforcement ...
Author: IUCN (Martin Tsamenyi & Quentin Hanich
Addressing Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing
29/09/2004
This paper prepared for the International Fisheries Compliance 2004 Conference, 29-30 September 2004, Brussels. It gives an overview of the different ...
Author: OECD (Carl-Christian Schmidt)
Adequacy of Indonesian Laws and Regulations to Combat IUU Fishing: An Evaluation of the New Law on Fisheries
27/04/2005
The Indonesian Government introduced a new law in 2004 (Law No. 31) to tackle IUU fishing. This paper assesses the adequacy of the new law to address ...
Author: Agoes ER, Padjadjaran University, Bandung
Adrift! Swordfish and Driftnets in the Mediterranean Sea
28/10/2009
This report was documents the use of illegal driftnets in the Mediterranean Sea by countries including Italy,Morocco, Turkey and Algeria. Driftnets ha ...
Author: Oceana
AFMA Update: Special Environment Edition
08/08/2008
This is a special edition of the AFMA regular newsletter and covers many environment-related topics, including:
- Eco-system based fisheries manage ...
Agreement Establishing a Framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement Between the East African Community Partner States on One Part and the European Community and its Member States on the Other Part
01/04/2008
This agreement established a framework for an Economic Partnership Agreement (EPA) between the East African Community (EAC) states - Burundi, Kenya, R ...
Author: EAC & the EU
Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
23/11/2009
This Agreement aims to prevent illegally caught fish from entering international markets. Under the terms of the treaty, foreign vessels will need spe ...
Author: FAO
AIPCE White Fish Study 2007
01/10/2007
This study shows that the overall trends are declining supplies from EU waters coupled with further increases, including from aquaculture sources, fro ...
Author: EU Fish Producers‘ Association (AIPCE)
Analysis of Expected Consequences for Developing Countries of the IUU Fishing Proposed Regulation and Identification of Measures Needed to Implement the Regulation - Phase 2
04/05/2009
This report describes the findings of an evaluation of the expected impacts of Council Regulation (EC) No.1005/2008 of 29th September 2008 establishin ...
Author: European Commission
Analysis of Illegal Fishery for Cod in the Barents Sea
01/08/2005
This report notes that the joint management of resources in the Barents Sea by Russia and Norway has produced positive results. However the level of I ...
Author: WWF-Russia
An Analysis of the Extent of IUU Fishing in Subarea 48.3: A Report for the UK Government in Respect of South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands
01/05/2002
This paper contains the executive summary and appendices of a report commissioned by the UK Government on the extent of IUU fishing for toothfish in t ...
Author: MRAG
Asserting Rights, Defining Responsibilities: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities on Coastal and Fisheries Management in Asia
08/05/2007
This is the report of a workshop and symposium held at Siem Reap, Cambodia, 3-8 May 2007. The proceedings provide a bottom-up perspective on how right ...
Author: ICSF
Assessemnt of On-Pack, Wild Capture Seafood Sustainability Certification Programmes and Seafood Ecolabels
18/01/2010
The Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) comes out on top in a new report commissioned by WWF that reveals poor performance among other assessed seafood e ...
Author: WWF
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