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Catching Up on Fisheries Crime [PDF]
Conservation Biology, 2014 This article describes international collaborative efforts aimed at improving the global capacity to address fisheries crime, with a particular focus on the International Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (IMCS) network and INTERPOL activities.
Henrik Österblom
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Determination of the Jurisdiction of Fisheries Crimes as Transnational Organized Crimes
Unnes Law Journal, 2021 The abundance of fisheries resources in Indonesian waters has made Indonesia a target of crime in the field of fisheries, this has an impact on the welfare and prosperity of the Indonesian people, especially local fishermen, the government continues to ...
Sulaiman Rasyid
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Understanding the organisational structure of fisheries crime in well-regulated fisheries
Marine Policy, 2023 Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing is recognised as a global environmental, economic, and social problem, taking place in all kinds of fisheries. Preventing it is however difficult and there is a continuous need to expand the knowledge base on how the issue can be addressed.
Marianne Svorken, Nicholas Lord
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Organized crime in the fisheries sector threatens a sustainable ocean economy [PDF]
Nature, 2020 The threat of criminal activity in the fisheries sector has concerned the international community for a number of years. In more recent times, the presence of organized crime in fisheries has come to the fore. In 2008, the United Nations General Assembly asked all states to contribute to increasing our understanding the connection between illegal ...
Kamal-Deen Ali +1 more
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Cameroon's choppy waters: The anatomy of fisheries crime in the maritime fisheries sector
Marine Policy, 2019 Abstract This article removes the lid on fisheries crime in Cameroon by providing empirical evidence of criminal practices along the maritime fisheries value chain. To achieve this, the study relied on both primary and secondary data. Primary data was collected from direct observation, informal group discussions and semi-structured interviews ...
Maurice Beseng
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Mirage of Pirates: State-Corporate Crime in West Africa's Fisheries
State Crime, 2015 This article applies the concept of state-corporate crime to the fisheries sector. It presents a case study from Senegal where Russian, European and Asian fishing firms supported by their home governments, gained access to overfished stocks that are ...
André Standing
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Towards an international legal definition of the notion of fisheries crime
Marine Policy, 2022 Over recent years, importance has been attributed to the application of criminal sanctions in the fight against IUU fishing due to the seriousness of the threat it represents for the conservation of marine living resources. This trend towards the criminalisation of certain activities related with IUU fishing has given rise to the appearance of the ...
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Situational crime analysis of poaching within Territorial Use Rights Fisheries (TURFs)
Frontiers in Marine ScienceIntroductionIllegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing poses a significant threat to marine resource management globally. Environmental criminology plays a vital role in understanding and mitigating IUU activities by focusing on the contextual ...
Laura Nahuelhual +2 more
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Marine Policy, 2019 Abstract Marine fisheries plays an important role in ensuring food security and providing livelihoods in South Africa, as in many other developing coastal States. Transnational fisheries crime seriously undermines these goals. Drawing on empirical research this contribution highlights the complexity of law enforcement at the interface between low ...
Moenieba Isaacs
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The prosecution of fisheries crime in Spanish criminal law: The impact of European Union regulations
Marine Policy, 2023 This contribution offers a critical reflection on fisheries crime as described in the Spanish Penal Code. It sets out the reasons why its treatment is considered ineffective, and why the administrative offences and sanctions provided for in Law 3/2001 on Maritime Fisheries are more effective and dissuasive. However, it also considers that a legislative
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