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The ‘How to Stop Illegal Fishing’ series aims to improve awareness and understanding of the roles and responsibilities of different actors in stopping illegal fishing. As with all of SIF publications, it targets the needs of African fisheries and countries, is based on evidence and analysis, and places legality in the fisheries sector as an…Press enter to go to this resource, How to Stop Illegal Fishing: Port States

The ‘How to Stop Illegal Fishing’ series aims to improve awareness and understanding of the roles and responsibilities of different actors in stopping illegal fishing. As with all of SIF publications, it targets the needs of African fisheries and countries, is based on evidence and analysis, and places legality in the fisheries sector as an…Press enter to go to this resource, How to Stop Illegal Fishing: Flag States

The ‘How to Stop Illegal Fishing’ series aims to improve awareness and understanding of the roles and responsibilities of different actors in stopping illegal fishing. As with all of SIF publications, it targets the needs of African fisheries and countries, is based on evidence and analysis, and places legality in the fisheries sector as an…Press enter to go to this resource, How to Stop Illegal Fishing: Stateless Vessels

This report outlines the EU's Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements(SFPA) mechanism and details the opportunities available to the EU and countries in the South West Indian Ocean to improve their SFPA. Alternative solutions that could be adopted in the future are also explored, such as the possibility of a regional SFPA or incorporation of broader ocean…Press enter to go to this resource, Status and Future of Sustainable Fisheries Partnership Agreements in the South West Indian Ocean

Corruption threatens the effectiveness of regulatory frameworks governing fisheries resources, and therefore facilitates IUU fishing. The fishery sector has specific characteristics that make it vulnerable to corruption; these include the global transnational nature of the industry and the lack of transparency within it, and the scarcity of fisheries resources. This report aims to encourage discussion…Press enter to go to this resource, Corruption as a Facilitator of Illegal Fishing: Insights from East Africa

This report tells the story of the development and operations of two regional task forces, FISH-i Africa and West Africa Task Force, and how they made a difference in stopping illegal fishing. The report details the why, where, who, how, and what in respect to the task forces, it considers what they achieved and what…Press enter to go to this resource, Regional Cooperation to Stop Illegal Fishing: A Tale of Two Task Forces

Moving Tuna is a case study about the at-sea and in-port transhipment of tuna from industrial purse seine and longline fishing vessels in the WIO. About 87% of this tuna is transhipped from fishing vessels in ports with the remainder transhipped at sea to carrier vessels.Press enter to go to this resource, Moving Tuna: Transhipment in the Western Indian Ocean

With IUU fishing causing a $36.4 billion cost to the global economy annually, as an industry it has resulted in mass destruction of fish stocks worldwide. This infographic highlights the key issues of IUU fishing and the procedures taken by the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation to mitigate the effects using a multipronged approach.Press enter to go to this resource, The International Challenge of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing

Blockchain is considered a fast emerging method to achieving traceability and transparency within seafood supply chains. This report provides a pilot-project led by the WWF focusing on a Fijian longline tuna fishery. It explores the operation of the fishery alongside lessons to be learned for those wanting to develop blockchain traceability solutions.Press enter to go to this resource, Blockchain: Transforming the Seafood Supply Chain