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This report documents an analysis of port States visited by fishing vessels using forced labour. The report highlights the need to maximize anti-traf...

This article describes an analysis of the Port State Measures to combat IUU fishing activities. The authors note the PSMA is only one tool available ...

The authors provide a brief overview of illegal fishing activity among small-scale fishers affecting West Africa....

This book documents the journey of eight countries joining forces to establish a sustainable and profitable tuna fishery. The book tells the story of...

This Blue Paper was prepared as input to the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, this paper provides scientific and policy background as...

This publication aims to demystify blockchain technology, provide some thoughts on the opportunities and challenges in implementing blockchain-based s...

This report highlights the unintended role the USA has played in financing illegal fishing. Illegal and unreported catches represented 20–32% by we...

This report explores the environmental impacts caused by the continued use of driftnets to catch swordfish and tuna in the Mediterranean this is despi...

The ISSF has recommended that purse seine and longline vessels participate in vessel monitoring schemes that meet global standards. This technical pa...

The paper summarises the major drivers of IUU fishing such as; weak governance, economic incentives, and barriers to enforcement and highlights three ...

This editorial is part of a series of research articles on the science of the high seas exploring the aspect of human influence and highlighting the e...

This study, using empirical information available from literatures and examining case studies of 10 developing countries around Africa and in Oceania...

This report aims to inform policy makers on the progress made in implementing measures against IUU fishing by OECD countries over the last decade, whi...

The Monitoring Control and Surveillance (MCS) Data Analysis Guidelines (the guidelines) are a set of
general guidelines developed to support and dire...

International law specifies that the country whose flag a vessel flies is responsible for controlling its activities. Certain states operate ‘open...

The registration of vessels under foreign flags is widely spread and much literature has proposed a number of factors explaining why certain flags are...

This report takes a look at the manner in which criminal enterprises have developed alongside legitimate commerce in recent years. Drawing on official...

This report presents the results of a project undertaken to provide technical assistance in developing a Standard National MCS Operations Manual in th...

The authors research and analyse the increasing effort of fishing noting the rapid increase of distance fishers are travelling to their fishing ground...

Guided by the theoretical assumptions of environmental criminology, this research examines the relevance of micro-spatial predictors of IUU fishing in...