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Identifying Global Patterns of Transshipment Behavior

Abstract
This paper recognises seafood sustainability and human rights challenges associated with transshipment at sea
and seeks to identify global patterns in order to address these issues. Transshipment at sea, the offloading of catch from a fishing vessel to a refrigerated vessel far from port, can obscure the actual source of the catch. The authors analysed over 10,000 instances of fishing vessels loitering long enough to engage in transshipment of this, roughly 47% of the events occur on the high seas and 42% involve vessels flying flags of convenience.
Author/s
Nathan A. Miller
Aaron Roan
Timothy Hochberg
John Amos
David. A Kroodsma
Publisher/s
Frontiers in Marine Science