Conceptualizing maritime environmental and natural resources law enforcement – The case of illegal fishing

Sander, Klas; Lee, Julian; Hickey, Valerie; Mosoti, Victor Bundi; Virdin, John; Magrath, William B.

doi:10.1016/j.envdev.2013.08.002

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“…15 International efforts to combat fishery crimes, for example, necessarily involve policing and enforcement actions by the navies or coastguards of littoral states, judicial processes to deal with offenders, regional cooperation and regulation of various sorts -including through international organizations such as the Food and Agriculture Organization -as well as engagement with internationally diverse private actors and companies at sea. 16 The geospatial characteristics of the oceans also engender basic epistemic challenges of how to know to know the sea and the movements and activities that take place upon it. 17 The rise of the maritime capacity building agenda is both a response to and reflection of these challenges.…”

Section: Capacity Building In the Maritime Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge

Bueger

Edmunds

McCabe

2019

Third World Quarterly

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Maritime security capacity building is a growing field of international activity. It is an area that requires further study, both as field in its own right, but also as an architype to develop insights for capacity building and security sector reform in other arenas. This article is one of the first to analyse this field of activity. Our objective is to document the extent and variety of activities and to outline how and why they present a specific set of challenges for scholarly analysis and practitioners alike. The empirical focus of this article is on the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. Here, international actors have launched multiple capacity building projects, initially in response to Somali piracy. We examine the ways in which capacity building at sea has incorporated innovative characteristics, before reflecting on some of the pathologies and failures it has entailed.

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Section: Capacity Building In the Maritime Environmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge

Bueger

Edmunds

McCabe

2019

Third World Quarterly

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“…Starting from the area of person re-ID, the research has been extended to cover the problems of vehicle and maritime vessel re-ID, where different environments and added difficulties render the re-deployment of the person re-ID algorithms ineffective. As a result, specialized approaches to the maritime vessel re-ID are required and since maritime vessels are infamous tools for transporting illegal goods [1], piracy [27] and illegal fishing [7,30], would make an automated system for maritime vessel surveillance highly attractive for law enforcement.…”

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confidence: 99%

Maritime vessel re-identification: novel VR-VCA dataset and a multi-branch architecture MVR-net

Ghahremani

Alkanat

Bondarev

2021

Machine Vision and Applications

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Maritime vessel re-identification (re-ID) is a computer vision task of vessel identity matching across disjoint camera views. Prominent applications of vessel re-ID exist in the fields of surveillance and maritime traffic flow analysis. However, the field suffers from the absence of a large-scale dataset that enables training of deep learning models. In this study, we present a new dataset that includes 4614 images of 729 vessels along with 5-bin orientation and 8-class vessel-type annotations to promote further research. A second contribution of this study is the baseline re-ID analysis of our new dataset. Performances of 10 recent deep learning architectures are quantitatively compared to reveal the best practices. Lastly, we propose a novel multi-branch deep learning architecture, Maritime Vessel Re-ID network (MVR-net), to address the challenging problem of vessel re-ID. Evaluation of our approach on the new dataset yields 74.5% mAP and 77.9% Rank-1 score, providing a performance increase of 5.7% mAP and 5.0% Rank-1 over the best-performing baseline. MVR-net also outperforms the PRN (a pioneering vehicle re-ID network), by 2.9% and 4.3% higher mAP and Rank-1, respectively.

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“…Researchers have examined the intersections of organized crime and environmental crimes worldwide, such as illegal fishing (Osterblom et al, 2011; Petrossian and Clarke, 2014; Sander et al, 2014), illegal wildlife hunting and poaching (Moreto and Lemieux, 2014; Pires, 2015; Rosen and Smith, 2010), illegal harvesting and logging (Bader et al, 2013; Innes, 2010; Tacconi, 2012), and illegal hazardous waste dumping (Block and Scarpitti, 1985; Celeste and Celebrezze, 1986; Massari and Monzini, 2004; Senior and Mazza, 2004). However, the area of illicit soil and sand mining has been generally overlooked (Rege, 2016).…”

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Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: A comparative analysis

Rege

Lavorgna

2016

European Journal of Criminology

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Despite the devastating short-and long-term consequences of resource-related environmental crimes, rampant illegal soil and sand mining continues worldwide. In countries such as India and Italy, organized crime groups have emerged as prominent illegal suppliers of soil and sand. The proposed study focuses on an understudied research area at the intersection between organized crime and environmental crimes, and offers a trans-comparative study of illegal soil and sand mining conducted by Indian and Italian organized crime groups with two main objectives. First, a comparative analysis of the organizational mechanisms, operational practices, threat management, and supporting cultural, regulatory, and policing factors is conducted. Second, a discussion of how these groups reflect mainstream models and theories of organized crime is offered.

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Conceptualizing maritime environmental and natural resources law enforcement – The case of illegal fishing

Cited by 16 publications

References 30 publications

Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge

Into the sea: capacity-building innovations and the maritime security challenge

Maritime vessel re-identification: novel VR-VCA dataset and a multi-branch architecture MVR-net

Organization, operations, and success of environmental organized crime in Italy and India: A comparative analysis

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