Addressing the Security Issues Related to Illegal Commercial Fishing

Lettieri, J.; Clarke, Ronald V.

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-91735-7_20

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“…Third, IUU fishing often operates in criminalized environments which increase recruitment efforts by pirate groups among fishermen populations. It also supports other illegal activities such as human trafficking, drug trafficking, labor trafficking, corruption, money laundering, and arms smuggling (Petrossian et al, 2022). 11 Frozen illegally caught fish often provides cover for other contraband such as wildlife, weapons, or drugs (Martin et al, 2018: 81).…”

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“…11 Frozen illegally caught fish often provides cover for other contraband such as wildlife, weapons, or drugs (Martin et al, 2018: 81). Drug cartels in Central America, for example, use fishing vessels to transport drugs or other materials (Petrossian et al, 2022). Fish laundering is also prevalent, where illegally caught fish are mixed with legally caught fish and combined in transshipment hubs or transferred to aquaculture facilities.…”

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“…2 At least part of the blame has been attributed to IUU fishing and in 2001, this growing threat led to an international call to arms to combat the issue. More than 45,000 kg of wild-caught fish are lost every minute to illegal fishing, and it costs legal fishing industries billions of dollars (Petrossian et al, 2022: 430). Somewhere between 20 and 25% of global fishing harvests come from IUU fishing, which creates $15.5–36 billion in revenue per year.…”

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Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy

Mitchell

Schmidt

2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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We examine greed and grievance mechanisms that connect illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing and piracy. We use several cases (e.g. Somalia, Nigeria) to illustrate these mechanisms and empirically examine the relationship between IUU fishing and state-year piracy events from 1990 to 2015. We find that countries experiencing significant levels of IUU fishing face much greater risks for piracy. We also evaluate several mediating conditions of our theory with interaction terms (state capacity, state fragility, and legal fishing incentives) and find that the relationship between IUU fishing and piracy is strongest for moderately developed states with greater state fragility and higher fish catch values.

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Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy

Mitchell

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2023

Conflict Management and Peace Science

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“…(Hosch et al, 2023). In addition, "increasing inspections of vessels offloading their catch, requiring pre-entry notifications at port, confirming and certifying complete and accurate information on vessel monitoring systems before port entry/fish offload" (Petrossian & Marteache, 2022) would certainly increase the risk of IUU fishing practices.…”

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An empirical assessment of seaports as facilitators of FOC-flagged transshipment landings

Petrossian,

Pires,

Spencer

et al. 2024

Crime Sci

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Transshipment is one of the most common activities occurring between carriers and fishing vessels to exchange fish, as well as fuel, crew, and gear at sea or at port. While transshipment reduces the need for the fishing vessels to visit ports to offload their catches, thus increasing their efficiency, research has shown that this activity is also one of the major facilitators of IUU fishing. Research on transshipments is limited, and the few studies that are available on the subject focus on identifying hotspots of transshipment, and networks of actors involved. No study to date has examined the role ports play in facilitating transshipment activities, nor are there any studies that examine whether ports that are affiliated with China (the country with the highest IUU Fishing Index Score and 38% of the global share of distant-water fleets) are more likely to experience disproportionately higher volumes of FOC-flagged carrier vessel visits. Therefore, using the carrier vessel portal database from Global Fishing Watch, which contains information on the origin and destination ports of the carrier vessels involved in transshipment activities between 2015 and 2022, this research aims to (a) understand hot spots of FOC-flagged carrier vessel activity in the high seas and where such vessels offload their catches around the world; and (b) empirically test the characteristics of the ports (and the countries where these ports are located) used by these vessels to offload their catches. Findings suggest that ports that experience higher volumes of fishing vessel traffic, are in close proximity to high-seas transshipment activities involving FOC-flagged carriers, are designated ports of entry for foreign vessels, are Chinese-affiliated, as well as have low monitoring, control, and surveillance capacity are significantly more likely to be visited by FOC-flagged high-risk carrier vessels. This research proposes policy recommendations deriving from the findings of this research.

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Addressing the Security Issues Related to Illegal Commercial Fishing

Cited by 2 publications

References 24 publications

Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy

Insecure fisheries: How illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing affects piracy

An empirical assessment of seaports as facilitators of FOC-flagged transshipment landings

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