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

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 study builds upon the March 2014 WWF Emerging Technologies Workshop which held a goal to
help FFA Member countries better understand the existin...

The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) has seen staggering growth in transshipment activity within its Convention Area. Using pu...

This 2019 report discusses the need for Observer reporting of transshipments to provide data to the tRFMOs that is independent and reliable from both ...

In a study commissioned by the Pacific Islands Foreign Fisheries Agency (FFA), transshipment and purse seine vessels are analyzed concerning the benef...

The international community has sought to limit or ban-transshipment at sea due to the difficulty it poses in monitoring IUU fishing and controlling i...

This report analyzed the movements of carrier vessels operating in the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) Convention area in 201...

Mexico has access to an extensive coastline that has served the country by becoming a primary source of food and job creation. The increase in fisheri...

Determined to ensure the long-term conservation and sustainable use, in particular for human food consumption, of highly migratory fish stocks in the ...

The Antigua Convention, which was negotiated to strengthen and replace the 1949 Convention establishing the IATTC, entered into force on 27 August 201...

The FFA Basic Texts compiles all the instruments and policies that provide the legal and administrative framework for FFA’s governance....

The objective of this Convention is, through the application of the precautionary approach and an ecosystem approach to fisheries management, to ensur...

The objective of this Convention is to ensure the long term conservation and sustainable use of the fisheries resources in the Convention Area while p...

The following paper is an extract from a larger publication from PEW Charitable Trusts on the use
of AIS for analyzing fish carrier activity in 2016 ...

Greenpeace presents a number of case studies that show serious problems within the Taiwanese seafood industry....

The author has identified the establishment of three new regional actors in an effort to help South-East Asia address the problems of IUU. This paper...

This Agreement is in response to the call by the Pacific Islands Forum Leaders to strengthen mechanisms to protect fisheries resources, particularly i...