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This article explores how AIS technology on vessels can shine a light on fishing activities in some of the planet's most unobserved areas, the oceans....

This article describes IUU fishing and explains how MCS activities work toward mitigating and deterring illegal fishing....

A presentation by KSAT that details their satellite services to the maritime sector....

This report highlights the potential illegal fishing activities of dark vessels. When trawlers turn off their transponders, they "go dark", allowing t...

This report highlights human rights abuses on vessels and the connection to IUU fishing....

This paper discusses the global scale of IUU fishing and makes a range of recommendations for governments, NGOs and international agencies looking to ...

This paper explores social networks to determine fleet activities and disentangling IUU fishing. The authors highlight the connectedness of a tanker ...

This report highlights past damage done to Taiwan’s fisheries reputation due to cases of Taiwanese distant water fishing vessels associated with IUU...

This Issue Paper is based on a desk review of research carried out on Transnational Organised Crime at Sea, with particular emphasis on existing UNODC...

This study examines recent incidents of gray zone coercion in maritime Asia and draws lessons for policymakers....

In an extensive one-year research on Thailand's overseas fishing fleets, Greenpeace finds that many of Thailand's distant water fishing fleets partici...

This report identifies major modi operandi enabling illegality in the fisheries sector in West Africa and the types of criminality that facilitate or ...

The TCN convened its 3rd Workshop in Bangkok, Thailand, from 22 to 24 February 2019. The Workshop focused on procedures to assess compliance in tuna R...

This report contains the proceedings of the IMCS Network's first ever virtual GFETW, which took place online on 13–14 July 2021. The overall theme o...

This document contains the report of the Sixth Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop (GFETW), which was convened in Bangkok, Thailand from 18...

A training tool on industrial fishing vessel inspections to assist in building knowledge in personnel who may play an operational role in fisheries mo...

A JAC fisheries intelligence report that examines the activities and identities of vessel/s that have transmitted on AIS using an unofficial MMSI that...

A JAC fisheries intelligence report that examines the activities and AIS reporting patterns of the squid vessel LU RONG YUAN YU 715. The vessel had be...

This document contains the report of the Fifth Global Fisheries Enforcement Training Workshop (GFETW), which was convened in Auckland, New Zealand fro...

The assessment of the implementation of, and compliance with, agreed obligations is a key component of the internationally accepted fisheries governan...