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

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 ...

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

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

This report presents the first study to use automatic identification system (AIS) data to examine the risks of unregulated fishing to ocean health. It...

The Ports Task Force Ghana (PTFG) is working diligently to implement the National Strategy and Action Plan for the implementation of the 2009 FAO Agre...

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

This paper summarises publicly available transshipment data to address the increasing number of high transshipment events occurring in the IOTC’s co...

This report discusses the threat of erroneous data available to MCS practitioners which can in turn lead to poor decision making, loss of credibility ...

Greenpeace undertook a research project to understand the extent of misuse of AIS by the global reefer industry. Greenpeace identified and studied 416...

This paper discusses the problem of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing on the high seas and acknowledges increasing restrictions put into pla...

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 ...

The Committee on Fisheries (COFI) undertook a global report on transshipment activities including the state of transshipment regulations and practices...

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...

Transshipment at sea is a practice where refrigerated cargo vessels, also known as reefers, meet with fishing boats to exchange catch, fresh water, fo...

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

This report discusses the rapid expansion of squid fishing in the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Convention Area. The vessels appear to operate e...