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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 study builds upon the March 2014 WWF Emerging Technologies Workshop which held a goal to
help FFA Member countries better understand the existin...

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

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 ...

The UN's ambitious PMSA intends to stop IUU vessels from entering port and ensure that vessels are complying with conservation and management measures...

IUU fishing contributes to the over-exploitation of natural fisheries resources and is detrimental to coastal communities' quality of life. IUU fishin...

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 UN adopted the Port State Measures Agreement (PMSA) in 2009 to stop the use of ports by IUU fishing and support vessels. However cost-effective th...

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...

The PEW Charitable Trusts discusses best practice ways to monitor transshipment in an effort to identify and mitigate IUU fishing. This information s...

In an effort to tackle illegal fishing the Indonesia government introduced a series of regulations and policy changes that affect the fishing activiti...

This report highlights three facets of transshipment as sea where improvements can be made to increase transparency, they include, management best pra...

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...

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...