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

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

This study uses AIS data to identify when and where transshipment occurs, which fisheries and fleets are most involved in the practice, and what propo...

In this research study, Global Fishing Watch uses AIS information to identify where transshipment can be happening and who is doing it. About 42 perce...

This paper recognises seafood sustainability and human rights challenges associated with transshipment at sea
and seeks to identify global patterns ...

In this research study, Global Fishing Watch uses AIS information to identify where transshipment can be happening and who is doing it. About 42 perce...

This paper highlights the use of transhipment activities to hide IUU fishing. Transshipment allows fishing vessels to stay at sea; sometimes for year...

The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) requested an in-depth study of transshipment to...

This Convention seeks to develop the principles embodied in resolution 2749 (XXV) of 17 December 1970 in which the General Assembly of the United Nati...

The treaty requires that fishing vessels request permission to dock at a port and inform the port of the details of its fishing operations. Permission...

The objective of the UN Fish Stocks Agreement is to ensure the long-term conservation and sustainable use of straddling and highly migratory fish stoc...

The 1995 FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (the Code) provides a set of international standards for responsible behaviour in the fisheries...

The FAO Fisheries Department has prepared and finalized these guidelines to assist FAO Members, regional fisheries management organizations and other ...

The author's studies focused on addressing the difficulties with international law's 'definition' of IUU fishing but not those arising from unilateral...

The IPOA-IUU is a voluntary instrument that applies to all States and entities and to all fishers. Following the IPOA's introduction, the nature and s...

This guide provides the reader with a broad explanation of the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA), a breakdown of the articles of the PSMA, highligh...

This document contains the texts of three International Plans of Action (IPOA): the IPOA for reducing incidental catch of seabirds in longline fisheri...

This report explores the many legal instruments and enforcement actions that port States can adopt in an effort to stop illegal fishing....

This paper examines the fisheries CMM process within the broader framework of international law and policy for marine resource governance. It consider...

This paper identifies the progress achieved by individual countries in implementing internationally recognised best policies and practices against ill...