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

This is the report of an Independent Panel tasked with developing a model for improved governance by RFMOs. The mandate of the Panel was to develop a ...

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...

The Voluntary Guidelines for Transshipment address the regulation, monitoring and control of transshipment of fish, which have not been previously lan...

An opinion blog by Commander Claude Berube discussing moves made by U.S. government agencies and Congressional legislation to address IUU....

This article examines four major maritime law enforcement response areas: Drug trafficking, piracy, migration, and illegal fishing. It examines specif...

A training tool intended for personnel working fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS), compliance and enforcement as well as for use by ...