Crime on the high seas: illegal fishing and its links to the illegal trade of wildlife, guns and drugs: A lack of transparency aboard vessels that engage in at-sea trans-shipments has created a fertile breeding ground for criminal trafficking of wildlife, drugs and weapons. The international community must introduce reforms to put an end to crime on the high seas.
The weakest link: how at-sea trans-shipment fuels illegal fishing and human rights abuses in global fisheries: Unmonitored at-sea trans-shipments allow vessels to operate in the shadows, engaging in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing as well as human rights abuses. Our report offers a set of reforms to facilitate the improved monitoring, control and surveillance of at-sea trans-shipments.
Communities for Fisheries project update - July-December 2022: The EU-funded Communities for Fisheries project aims to create skilled, capable and effective community co-management associations (CMAs) to secure legal and sustainable fisheries in Liberia. This brief summarises the progress made under the project from July to December of 2022.
On the precipice: crime and corruption in Ghana's Chinese-owned trawler fleet: Fisheries that millions of Ghanaians depend on are at risk of collapse as a result of rampant illegal fishing and overfishing by Chinese-owned industrial trawlers, and a culture of corruption has allowed these crimes to go unpunished. This report explains the urgent action needed to reverse this decline.