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UNODC launches its ‘Fisheries Crime’ focus sheet
The UNODC launched its ‘Fisheries Crime’ focus sheet at the CCPCJ. The focus sheet details the multifaceted nature and extent of transnational organised fisheries crime globally emphasising that it is a ‘complex crime demanding cooperative law enforcement’. Recommendations towards this end include enhanced cooperative criminal justice sector and law enforcement …
Fisheries Law Enforcement Academy established at NMMU
“Fisheries crime and the illegal harvesting, processing and trading of fish and seafood globally is so huge that it is in effect a parallel economic system that is undermining sustainable economic growth. Countries are being deprived of taxes; citizens of jobs, food and income; and fisheries and environments are being …
Fisheries law enforcement academy to be established in South Africa
The Nelson Mandela Metropolitan University (NMMU) recently received confirmation that funding has been approved towards the establishment of a Fisheries Law Enforcement Academy at NMMU in Port Elizabeth. Professor Hennie van As, a Professor in Public Law and Director of the Centre for Law in Action (CLA) in the Faculty of …
Spanish Authorities Arrest Fishing Crime Leader
Environmental group Sea Shepherd reports that Spanish authorities have arrested six people, including Antonio Vidal Suárez, a leader in the Vidal Armadores organization, on charges relating to illegally fishing for Antarctic and Patagonian toothfish. Sea Shepherd’s Captains Peter Hammarstedt and Siddharth Chakravarty have congratulated the authorities. The environmentalists say that …
Joint High Level Side Event ‘Transnational Organised Fisheries Crime’
Fisheries crime was the focus of the Joint High Level Side Event ‘Transnational Organised Fisheries Crime’ co-hosted by the Government of the Republic of Indonesia, The Government of Norway and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime of the 25th Session of the Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice …
Co-operation can turn the tide against illegal fishing
Most South Africans are unaware of the work done each day by hundreds of fisheries law enforcement officers, who risk their lives fighting ruthless criminals operating in organised networks. The criminals’ activities put at risk sustainable economic growth, undermine coastal communities’ livelihoods and threaten food security. They pose a challenge …
Transnational crime in the fisheries sector tackled by global experts
Large scale criminal activity in the fisheries sector is rampant and highly lucrative. With these crimes frequently being of a transnational and largely organized nature, the sector is vulnerable to multiple issues including illegal fishing, corruption, document fraud, and human trafficking. The reality, as evidenced by a number of cases, …
Crackdown on Poachers in Antarctica Continues
The crackdown on poachers in the Southern Ocean continues with news that authorities in Senegal, West Africa, have detained the internationally wanted toothfish-poaching vessel, Kunlun. Reports allege that the Kunlun had previously falsified its registry, claiming Indonesia as its flag state. This allowed the vessel to be detained in Senegal …