Safeguarding South Africa’s Waters
Through the implementation of the Copenhagen Declaration and the Blue Justice Community platform, South Africa is enhancing its capabilities to address sophisticated illegal fishing networks. The South African fisheries administration was among the first to engage proactively across government agencies to address fisheries crime, having gained experience with successfully prosecuting a high profile transnational organised…
Blue Justice Conference 2023
In March 2023, the world’s largest conference on fisheries crime, the Blue Justice Conference, was held at UN City, Copenhagen, Denmark. The conference, co-hosted by UNDP, the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries and the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), brought together over 140 ministers, governmental representatives, operational experts, and civil society attendees from…
Blue Justice official side-event for UN Ocean Conference 2022
As part of the UN Ocean conference 2022 in Lisbon, Portugal, the Blue Justice Initiative, along with CRFM, CARICOM, UNDP, Jamaica, Belize, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, and Norway, hosted a high-level side event on International and Caribbean efforts to address organized crime in the fishing industry, on the 29th of June 2022. The event…
UNDP and Blue Justice Initiative Fisheries Crime event: Lehmkuhl visit to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
The Norwegian tall ship, Statsraad Lehmkuhl, called at Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23-26 February, as part of its One Ocean Expedition, sailing under the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. UNDP is an official supporter of the OOE towards enhancing visibility, awareness-raising and global promotion of a sustainable blue economy free from fisheries crime. The…
The International Blue Justice Tracking Center established under the Blue Justice Initiative in the Arctic town of Vardø
An “International Blue Justice Tracking Center” has been established under the Blue Justice Initiative. The Center will be supported by the joint analytical unit of the Norwegian Directorate of Fisheries and the Coastal Administration and is located in the town of Vardø. The Center will be supported by analysts from the Norwegian Fisheries Directorate who…
Caribbean support to the Copenhagen Declaration and the Blue Justice Initiative
On the 21. May 2021, The Ministerial Council of the Caribbean Regional Fisheries Mechanism (CRFM), an institution of CARICOM, adopted a resolution on the Copenhagen Declaration on Transnational Organized Crime in the Global Fishing industry and the Blue Justice Initiative. The Ministerial Council of CRFM consists of the Ministers responsible for fisheries from Anguilla, Antigua…
First Blue Enforcement training course held in Sri Lanka: 10-20 May 2021
As part of the Blue Justice Initiative funded Blue Enforcement project, the UNODC Global Maritime Crime Programme (GMCP) conducted a Fishing Vessel Boarding Operations (FVBO) course at the maritime law enforcement training centre in Trincomalee, Sri Lanka, between 10-20 May. The two week course had a total of twenty participants, one of them a female student,…
Launch: Blue Resilience project in cooperation with the Blue Justice Initiative
On Wednesday 16 September 2020 the Blue Resilience project will be launched. The project is in cooperation with the Blue Justice Initiative via the Norwegian Ministry of Trade, Industry and Fisheries.
Blue Justice Initiative’s liaison at the Norwegian Police
As of July 2020, the Secretariat of the Blue Justice Initiative will have a fisheries liaison at the Norwegian National Authority for Investigation and Prosecution of Economic and Environmental Crime (Økokrim). Eve de Coning will join the analysis unit of Økokrim, where she will assist Økokrim and Norwegian police units with fisheries crime-related issues, including…