Occupying the high ground: Technology and the war on IUU fishing

Law, Technology and Science for Oceans in Globalisation: IUU Fishing, Oil Pollution, Bioprospecting, Outer Continental Shelf

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 77-99

  Miller, Denzil G M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004180406.i-610     Document Type: Chapter

References (48)

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2. For current purposes 'IUU activities' are considered to comprise the 'chain' of activities associated with IUU fishing and, more broadly, IUU operations, as identified by D. Vidas, 'IUU Fishing or IUU Operations? Some Observations on Diagnosis and Current Treatment', in D.D. Caron and H.N. Scheiber (eds), Bringing New Law to Ocean Waters (Leiden: Martinus Nijhoff, 2004), pp. 125-144, at pp. 127-130.
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18. Vidas, 'IUU Fishing or IUU Operations?', pp. 127-130. In accordance with Vidas, 'at sea' is used in the sense of the Law of the Sea coverage, i.e., 'from vessel registration to the landing of catch in a port'; Vidas, 'IUU Fishing or IUU Operations?', p. 128.
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27. See Ansell, chapter 10 in this book
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30. 'Sigint' stands for 'signals intelligence', usually derived from interception of radio or telephone traffic
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33. Here it should be noted that an estimated USD 937 million of a global total of USD 2.4 billion is lost to IUU fishing in the EEZs of Sub-Saharan African states alone; see MRAG, Review of Impacts of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, p. 100.
34. Lodge et al., Recommended Best Practices, pp. 110-114.
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42. The Agreement was opened for signature on 4 December 1995; entered in force on 11 December 2001. As of 8 June 2009, there were 75 parties.
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