Monitoring, control and surveillance tools to detect IUU fishing and related activities

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

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 101-108

  Kuruc, Michele ^a  

^a UN Food and Agriculture Organisation   (Italy)

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EID: 84882620702     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1163/ej.9789004180406.i-610     Document Type: Chapter

References (25)

1. FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department, The State of the World Fisheries and Aquaculture2008 (Rome: FAO, 2009), p. 5.
2. D.J. Agnew, J. Pearce, G. Pramod, T. Peatman, R. Watson, J.R. Beddington and T.J. Pitcher,'Estimating the Worldwide Extent of Illegal Fishing', PLoS ONE, Vol. 4, 2009, p. 1
3. available at.
4. As to estimates of size and value of IUU fishing activities in the Southern Ocean, see Miller, Slicer and Sabourenkov, chapter 9 in this book
5. Statistic from the Republic of Indonesia's Ministry of Maritime and Fisheries as relayed by Minister Numberi, 2006 (on file with the author)
6. For an analysis of IUU fishing in a broader context and termed 'IUU operations', see 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.
7. See T. Lobach, Port State Control of Foreign Fishing Vessels, FAO Fisheries Circular No. 987 (Rome: FAO, 2003), p. 8.
8. See Lobach, chapter 6; Doulman, chapter 7; and Lodge, chapter 8 in this book
9. Agreement to Promote Compliance with International Conservation and Management Measures by Fishing Vessels on the High Seas; text in UNTS, Vol. 2221, pp. 91ff
10. text reprinted in ILM, Vol. 33, 1994, pp. 968ff.
11. The FAO Compliance Agreement was approved on 24 November 1993 by Resolution 15/93 of the Twenty-Seventh Session of the FAO Conference and entered in force on 24 April 2003
12. Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (Rome: FAO, 1995)
13. text available at.
14. International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (Rome: FAO, 2001)
15. text available at FAO website .
16. Model Scheme on Port State Measures to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (Rome: FAO, 2005)
17. See further Ansell, chapter 10 in this book
18. See further Doulman, chapter 7 in this book
19. As to CCAMLR, see Miller, Slicer and Sabourenkov, chapter 9 in this book
20. VMS inventory conducted by FAO, 2007-2008 (unpublished)
21. On the use of these systems for detecting illegal oil spills from ships, see Trieschmann, chapter 11 in this book
22. See, e.g., Lloyd's Register Fairplay website at .
23. For further information see the the MCS Network website, at
24. see alsoM. Kuruc, 'International Network for the Cooperation and Coordination of Fisheries-related Monitoring, Control and Surveillance Activities', presentation at the Expert Consultation on Fishing Vessels Operating under Open Registries and Their Impact on Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, Southeast Fisheries Science Center, Miami, 23-25 September 2003
25. available at .