Illegal fishing and Australian security

Lindley, Jade; Percy, Sarah; Techera, Erika

doi:10.1080/10357718.2018.1548561

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“…However, a narrative is emerging that fisheries violations are linked to other crimes, including labor abuses, drug trafficking, and human trafficking (Liddick, 2014;Telesetsky, 2014). The narrative suggests that the involvement of organized crime is resulting in the mixing of these activities (Chapsos and Hamilton, 2019;Lindley et al, 2019). Here, we explore the veracity of these two claims.…”

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The Intersection Between Illegal Fishing, Crimes at Sea, and Social Well-Being

2020

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Illegal, unregulated, and unreported (IUU) fishing is a major contributor to global overfishing, threatening food security, maritime livelihoods, and fisheries sustainability. An emerging narrative in the literature posits that IUU fishing is associated with additional organized criminal activities, such as drug trafficking, human trafficking, slavery, and arms smuggling. We explored this narrative through a systematic literature review to identify the empirical evidence of the association between illegal fisheries activities and organized crimes. Here we show that there is minimal evidence of organized crimes being linked to IUU fishing. Due to the covert nature of both organized crime and IUU fishing, we supplemented the literature review with analysis of media reports on illegal fishing from 2015 to 2019. We reviewed more than 330 individual media reports from 21 countries. From this database, < 2% reported crimes associated with illegal fishing. The predominantly associated crime mentioned were violations of worker's rights, forced labor and/or modern slavery. We resolve the contradiction between the common narrative that fisheries and other crimes are linked by presenting three distinct business models for maritime criminal activities. These models explain why certain crimes such as forced labor are associated with illegal fishing, while other crimes such as trafficking or smuggling are less likely to be linked to fishing activities. By disentangling these crimes from one another we can better focus on solutions to reduce illegal behavior on the sea, protect those vulnerable to fisheries exploitation, and enhance livelihoods and social well-being.

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The Intersection Between Illegal Fishing, Crimes at Sea, and Social Well-Being

2020

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“…For this paper, national security is defined as "the ability of a nation-state to protect its internal values or features [people, economic interests, boundaries and environment] from external threats" (Bock and Berkowitz, 1966, 134). Based on this definition, it is evident that IUU fishing presents a direct threat to the national security of coastal states as it is linked to different forms of organised crimehuman/drug smuggling, arms trafficking among other illegal activities ( de Coning 2011;Lindley, Percy, and Techera, 2019). Espousing this view, a representative of the Nigerian Navy notes that it is conceivable that arms are smuggled into the Niger Delta region of Nigeria using fishing vessels, thus threatening the peace and stability of the 7 The community security is equally affected as fisheries depletion destabilises the continuity of the age-long tradition of which the sea and the fish within it have been vital to its preservation.…”

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The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a Threat to Human and National Security in the Gulf of Guinea

Okafor‐Yarwood

2020

African Security

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Analyses of [maritime] security issues have long focused on threats to the nation-state, thereby promulgating traditional state-centric security policies and practices. The preceding claim is valid for maritime security responses on the African continent, where piracy/armed robbery at sea has been met with robust regional and international interventions, and resulted in two UN resolutions and regional policies. Focusing primarily on illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing, this paper seeks to highlight the centrality of human security issues to national security by providing evidence of the cyclical relationship between the two; anything that undermines human security, explicitly threatens national security. Utilising evidence from Nigeria, the paper critiques the tendency to ignore the individual as the referent object of security.

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“…The criminalization of IUU Fishing is considered a way to achieve a more effective result in the fight against IUU Fishing. It is important to note that the perpetrators share a common perception that IUU Fishing is a low-risk activity (Lindley et al, 2019). The possibility of such perception to prevail is related to the effectiveness of current measures in dealing with it.…”

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“…The possibility of such perception to prevail is related to the effectiveness of current measures in dealing with it. Rather than seeing the criminal lens problem, current measures perceive IUU Fishing as a fisheries management problem (Lindley et al, 2019;Telesetsky 2014; UN Ocean Conference 2020). As a consequence, the problem of transnational organized crimes is prolonged without enough punishment.…”

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Indonesia and The Criminalization of Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing in The Global Level

Ardhani

2021

JHI

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The staunch measures taken by President Joko Widodo’s administration in combating Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing has attracted considerable attention from academia. However, previous studies focused on analyzing law enforcement measures in terms of the sinking-vessel policy. Consequently, they failed to adequately comprehend how Indonesia deals with the problem by criminalizing IUU Fishing at the global level. This article attempts to fill such a gap. Employing the five stages of the historical evolution of a global prohibition regime, introduced by Andreas and Nadelmann (2006), this research investigated the progress of Indonesia’s campaign to criminalize IUU Fishing at the global level and identified some hurdles that Indonesia has to address in fostering the advancement of the criminalization campaign. This article discovered that Indonesia has arrived at the third stage of making the global prohibition regime of TOC in the fisheries industry and has to deal with the hurdles of argumentation weakness and disagreement from several countries.

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Illegal fishing and Australian security

Cited by 21 publications

References 26 publications

The Intersection Between Illegal Fishing, Crimes at Sea, and Social Well-Being

The Intersection Between Illegal Fishing, Crimes at Sea, and Social Well-Being

The Cyclical Nature of Maritime Security Threats: Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated Fishing as a Threat to Human and National Security in the Gulf of Guinea

Indonesia and The Criminalization of Illegal, Unregulated, and Unreported Fishing in The Global Level

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