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This briefing provides an overview of the fleet of Chinese-flagged or owned fishing vessels operating in Sierra Leone. It explores the prevalence of Chinese-owned trawlers and supporting fleets in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the extent to which these vessels, and/or their owners, have a history of IUU fishing.

This briefing provides an overview of the fleet of Chinese-flagged or owned fishing vessels operating in The Gambia. It explores the prevalence of Chinese-owned trawlers and supporting fleets in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the extent to which these vessels, and/or their owners, have a history of IUU fishing.

This briefing provides an overview of the fleet of Chinese-flagged or owned fishing vessels operating in Guinea. It explores the prevalence of Chinese-owned trawlers and supporting fleets in the country’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ) and the extent to which these vessels, and/or their owners, have a history of IUU fishing.

The small-scale fisheries sector in Liberia relies on informal governance structures with multiple stakeholders at different leadership levels. This report analyses how these structures play an important role in addressing issues like overexploitation and unsustainable fishing practices.

A rise in seafood imports and a lack of supply chain safeguards is allowing the products of illegal fishing to enter the Korean market. The Korean government must improve transparency and traceability measures to ensure consumers are not driving environmentally destructive fishing and human rights abuses at sea.

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.

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.