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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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Illegal fisheries, environmental crime, and the conservation of marine resources
Conservation Biology, 2021Abstract The illegal harvest of marine species within exclusive economic zones can have a strong impact on the function of local ecosystems and livelihoods of coastal communities. The complexity of these problems is often overlooked in the development of solutions, leading to ineffective and sometimes harmful ...
Erendira Aceves-Bueno +2 more
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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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Illegal fishing and fisheries crime as a transnational organized crime in Indonesia
Trends in Organized Crime, 2018Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is increasingly drawing international attention and coastal states strengthen their efforts to address it as a matter of priority due to its severe implications for food, economic, environmental and social security.
Ioannis Chapsos
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Introduction and overview: Transnational organised fisheries crime
Marine Policy, 2019Abstract This article sets the scene for the contributions in this Special Issue on Transnational Organised Fisheries Crime. It does so by providing insight into the myriad of complex criminal problems currently facing the global fisheries industry and introducing the fisheries crime concept alongside some of the other key legal concepts relevant to ...
Jan Glazewski
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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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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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Blue Water Crime: Deterrence, Legitimacy, and Compliance in Fisheries
Law and Society Review, 1998This study adds to the limited body of empirical evidence on the effect that legitimacy and deterrence have on compliance behavior. The theoretical models of compliance behavior tested include the basic deterrence model, which focuses on the certainty and severity of sanctions as key determinants of compliance, and models which integrate economic ...
Jon G Sutinen
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The One That Got Away? Crime and Punishment In Queensland's Commercial Fisheries
Australian Economic Papers, 2002Analysis of a combined cross‐sectional/time‐series sample of records of the activities of patrol officers, reports of breaches of fisheries regulations, and associated court records in Queensland lends support to the hypothesis that economic factors are important in determining crime rates.
Bodman, P. M. +2 more
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