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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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Scientists' Statement to the United Nations General Assembly regarding Progress made in Protecting Vulnerable Deep Sea Ecosystems
01/07/2009
This open letter sets out the concerns of the scientists over the failures of flag states and RFMOs to fully implement measures to protect vulnerable ...
Author: Scientists from round the world
Seafood Supply Chain Management: Methods to Prevent Illegally-Caught Product Entry into the Marketplace
07/01/2008
This paper analyses approaches to supply chain management in the global seafood market, and uses this analysis to make recommendations for better mana ...
Author: IUCN (Cathy Roheim)
Selfish Europe: How the Economic Partnership Agreements Would Further Contribute to the Decline of Fish Stocks and Exacerbate the Food Crisis in Senegal
11/08/2008
This report reveals what it describes as the exploitative practices of European trawlers operating in West African waters, which have major implicatio ...
Author: ActionAid
Sharks: Oceana Wants RFMO Parties in San Sebastian to Commit to Concrete Actions
02/07/2009
The authors of this report note that 52% of pelagic shark species caught in high-seas fisheries are threatened. In 2007, 141,000 tonnes of highly migr ...
Author: Oceana
Small Boats, Big Problems
01/04/2008
This paper is written during the current WTO debate on fisheries subsidies, and the exemptions many states are seeking for being able to subsidise the ...
Author: WWF
Somali Piracy: the Other Side of the Coin
01/10/2009
This author of this article (Abshir Waldo) argues that the underlying causes of the rise of piracy off the Somali coast have not been fully appreciate ...
Author: African Prospects journal
Southern and Eastern Africa Forum to Counter IUU Fishing
01/11/2007
The Southern and Eastern Africa Forum to Counter IUU Fishing was hosted by the Government of Mozambique and co-supported by the Stop Illegal Fishing P ...
Author: Stop Illegal Fishing
Space technologies in fisheries and maritime affairs: facing the future with confidence
16/10/2009
This speech was delivered by Commissioner Joe Borg at the conference entitled "The Ambitions of Europe in Space", held in Brussels on 16 Oct ...
Author: Joe Borg, European Commissioner Responsible for Fisheries & Maritime Affairs (speech)
Spatial Management to Support Recovery of the Atlantic Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean
16/05/2008
In this report the authors claim that a closure of the Mediterranean bluefin fishery in the months of May and June when adults aggregate in the Medite ...
Author: WWF
Speech by Commissioner Joe Borg at the General Assembly of AIPCE-CEP (E.U. Fish Processors Association - E.U. Federation of National Organisations of Importers and Exporters of Fish), Edinburgh, 17 October 2008
17/10/2008
At the general assembly of the AIPCE-CEP (the EU fish processors and importers association) the Fisheries Commissioner Joe Borg delivered a speech ent ...
Author: European Commission
Speech by Joe Borg on the EU Maritime Policy Green Paper
07/06/2006
Speech by Dr Joe Borg, European Commissioner for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, to the European Parliament marking the adoption of the Green Paper on ...
Author: European Commission
Speech by Joe Borg to 11th North Atlantic Fisheries Ministers Conference
13/06/2006
Speech by Dr Joe Borg, Member of the European Commission Responsible for Fisheries and Maritime Affairs, focusing on the need to address IUU fishing. ...
Author: European Commission
Squaring the Diamond Mesh
14/05/2008
In this report, WWF encourages the switch from the unselective diamond-mesh nets currently used by bottom-trawlers in the Mediterranean to more select ...
Author: WWF
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2006
05/03/2007
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture (SOFIA) is the Fisheries Department‘s premier advocacy document. It is published every two years wit ...
Author: FAO
The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture 2008
02/03/2009
This issue of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture features some of the aspects of fisheries and aquaculture that may receive increasing atten ...
Author: FAO
Statement of Commitment by SADC Ministers Responsible for Marine Fisheries on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
04/07/2008
This is the Statement of Commitment signed by ministers from SADC coastal states at the end of a ministerial conference in Windhoek, 2-4 July 2008, to ...
Author: SADC (Southern African Development Community)
Stop Illegal Fishing in Southern Africa
02/07/2008
This report looks at the status and impacts of IUU fishing in the southern African region, covering a number of themes and issues including internatio ...
Author: Stop Illegal Fishing
Stopping Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
01/01/2002
This FAO booklet aims to familiarise readers with the tools available to combat IUU fishing (such as the FAO International Plan of Action and the Code ...
Author: FAO
Stopping the High Seas Robbers: Coming to Grips with Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fisheries on the High Seas
06/06/2003
This document is a background paper for the Round Table on Sustainable Development meeting in June 2003, which had as its theme "the sustainable ...
Author: OECD (Simon Upton & Vangelis Vitalis)
Strengthening Port State Measures in the Indian Ocean: The Key to Improving Fisheries Management and Combating IUU Fishing
18/06/2007
This is the opening statement at the international symposium. ...
Author: FAO (Ichiro Nomura, Assistant General, Fisheries and Aquaculture Department)
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