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Illegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing poses a global challenge and has significant economic and environmental repercussions. [5] The impact of IUU fishing includes economic losses, job losses, scarcity, price distortion, food insecurity and unfair competition, [6] together with the depletion of fish populations and damages to the marine habitat. [7]
As illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing—or IUUF—strains global fish populations, world leaders are paying more attention to the sea. Competition over dwindling fish resources has led to ...
In 2020, the Coast Guard declared illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing—or IUU—the top global security threat in the high seas, and since then has worked to step up operations in the ...
The Agreement on Port State Measures to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (referred to in short as the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA)) is a 2009 international treaty of the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) designed to prevent and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing.
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated fishing (IUU) in the Arctic (see discussion of the Arctic boundaries) is an under researched scientific field. [1] The most recent academic articles about IUU in the Arctic mainly concerns the mid-2000s.
Illegal and unreported fishing contributes to the reduction in fish stocks and hinders the ability for fish populations to recover. It is believed that between 10 billion and 23 billion instances of illegal and unreported fishing happen annually, with communities in developing countries being more likely to partake in these illegal activities. [47]
Illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing [ edit ] NOAA Fisheries works with U.S. government agencies and foreign governments to implement domestic and international policies and plans for addressing illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing in United States waters and internationally.
Fisheries crime describes the wide range of criminal activity that is common along the entire value chain of the fishing sector. [1] It often occurs in conjunction with Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU), but next to illegal fish extraction include for example corruption, document fraud, tax evasion, money laundering, kidnapping, human trafficking and drug trafficking. [1]