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.
A threat to people and planet: The need for the Transform Bottom Trawling coalition: Bottom trawling poses a threat to our climate, marine ecosystems, and the coastal communities that depend on them. EJF has joined forces with the global coalition, Transform Bottom Trawling, to take action on this destructive practice.