I'm currently working on a risk assessment for sourcing seafood. A small component of this would be to make a risk judgement on the extent of IUU fishing occurring in a sea area. Are there any up-to-date sources of information at the global level that would allow me to do this? Or alternatively, what sources of information would you prioritise in developing your own classification scheme for defining and measuring IUU fishing?
Check out CCAMLR and Antarctic tooth fish. I know there's some data there on IUU fishing. Am not sure how up to date it will be.
Try the Sea Around Us website http://www.seaaroundus.org/
There may well be data on IUU fishing as well as information on how this metric is calculated. Hope this helps.
Thanks for these suggestions, the SAU website was particularly useful. Found a nice paper to give a crude measure of IUU by marine region by Agnew et al 2009 "Estimating the Worldwide Extent of Illegal Fishing" in PLoS One 4(2). This will do for now.
Hi Alex, i'll be grateful to get a copy of that publication if you can.
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