Dealing with the "bad actors" of ocean fisheries

Fish Piracy: Combating Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

Volumn 9789264016804, Issue , 2004, Pages 57-64

  Balton, David A ^a  

^a U S DEPARTMENT OF STATE   (United States)

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EID: 56949108221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1787/9789264016804-3-en     Document Type: Chapter

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1. This paper was submitted to the IUU Workshop as a background paper.
2. Of course, not all vessel owners re-flag their vessels in order to avoid fishing restrictions. Many times fishing vessels are re-flagged for completely legitimate reasons, including to gain legal access to regulated fisheries.
3. One of the nations under ICCAT's bluefin tuna trade embargo recently took the step of joining ICCAT, presumably for the purpose of having the trade embargo lifted. Panamanian vessels will henceforth be bound to observe all ICCAT measures.