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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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Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Seafarers, Fishers & Human Rights
19/06/2006
This report examines the conditions of those living and working at sea and details some of the appalling human rights abuses and failures in the curre ...
Author: International Transport Workers Federation (ITF)
An Overview of the US Lacey Act Amendments of 1981 and a Proposal for a Model Port States Fisheries Enforcement Act
01/11/2005
A background study prepared for the High Seas Task Force, this paper explains how the US Lacey Act is used to control the import of IUU fish into the ...
Author: High Seas Task Force (Paul A. Ortiz, US NOAA)
Pacific Tuna: Stolen Fish, Stolen Futures
01/08/2006
A Greenpeace media briefing on the fleets that they believe are destroying tuna stocks in the Pacific Ocean. ...
Author: Greenpeace
Party to the Plunder: Illegal Fishing in Guinea and its Links to the EU
01/03/2006
Illegal fishing by foreign trawlers in Guinea’s coastal zone is widespread and increasing, despite the attention that has been focussed on illega ...
Author: EJF
PASS Contract JF0371: The Potential for DNA-Based Method to be Used for the Detection of Illegal Trade in Fish from IUU
31/08/2006
This report sets out the possibilities for using DNA technologies to monitor IUU fishing and to detect trade routes for fish derived from IUU fishing. ...
Author: Watson Fish Consulting
Patagonian Toothfish: Are Conservation and Trade Measures Working?
01/11/2001
The fishery for Patagonian Toothfish, concentrated in the Southern Ocean, has come under increased pressure in recent years. This pressure arises larg ...
Author: TRAFFIC
Pillagers or Victims? The plight of Kenyan fishermen on board foreign-flagged trawlers is often shocking
01/03/2006
Article on IUU fishing in Kenya. ...
Author: ICSF
The Piracy-Illegal Fishing Nexus in the Western Indian Ocean
14/03/2011
Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU) inhibits the managed recovery of the world’s oceans from severe fish depletions. It is estimat ...
Pirate Booty: How ICCAT is Failing to Curb IUU Fishing
09/11/2007
This report exposes what the authors perceive as the weakness of current regulations governing tuna fisheries and the widespread occurrence of IUU fis ...
Author: Greenpeace
Pirate Fish on Your Plate
01/08/2007
This report exposes the link between consumers in the UK and illegal or ‘pirate’ fishing vessels operating off West Africa that are decimati ...
Author: Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Pirate Fishing Exposed
11/10/2012
This report by EJF exposes the continued role of the European Union and East Asian countries in facilitating a market for seafood illegally caught in ...
Pirates & Profiteers: How Pirate Fishing Fleets are Robbing People and Oceans
01/01/2005
This report explores the global nature of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing: one of the most serious threats to the future of world fi ...
Author: Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF)
Pirates of the Pacific
01/08/2006
A Greenpeace media briefing on illegal fishing in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean. ...
Author: Greenpeace
The Plunder of BlueFin Tuna in the Mediterranean & East Atlantic During 2006-2007
31/10/2007
This report follows on from a similar one covering the period 2003-04. The author ex ...
The Plunder of Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean and East Atlantic in 2004 and 2005: Uncovering the Real Story
31/05/2006
WWF has been monitoring the rise of tuna farming activities in the Mediterranean since their beginning, particularly addressing how the rapid expansio ...
Author: WWF
Plundering the Pacific
23/10/2006
Greenpeace and fisheries authorities from Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) and Kiribati undertook, over the course of seven weeks, joint surveilla ...
Author: Greenpeace
Practice of RFMOs Regarding Non-Members: A Report to Support the Independent High-Level Panel to Develop a Model for Improved Governance by RFMOs
12/02/2007
This report includes the following: an analysis of decisions of RFMOs relating to cooperating non-members; examples of positive measures applied to co ...
Author: Owen, Daniel
Programme of Support to Tackling IUU Fishing in Southern Africa: Programme Brief and Update no. 1
01/08/2007
As a follow on action from the International High Seas Task Force, the UK Government has committed to support an African policy process to tackle IUU ...
Author: Department for International Development (DfID), UK
Progress made with regards with regard to measures against IUU fishing, COFI, 29th session, 31 January-4 February 2011
03/09/2010
This paper addresses recent initiatives taken to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing and related activities. These initiatives ar ...
The Progress of the Common Fisheries Policy: Volume 1
22/07/2008
This report is a mid-term review of the 2002 reform of the Common Fisheries Policy, and examines ongoing challenges facing fisheries managers. It seek ...
Author: House of Lords, UK Parliament
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