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MAJOR CHALLENGES |
SIGNIFICANT ACTIVITY |
1. Lack of flag State control, including:
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· Development of compliance
measures |
2. MCS, including:
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· Institutional strengthening
undertaken to enhance capacity to combat IUU fishing |
3. Reporting |
· Development, implementation of
comprehensive arrangements for mandatory reporting |
4. Create economic, trade or other disincentives to IUU fishing |
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5. Create awareness among shipowners, captains about importance of conservation |
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6. Weak capacity of member countries to combat IUU fishing |
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7. Mend gaps in fisheries regulatory regimes |
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8. Assessing the extent of non-member and member State IUU fishing |
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9. Limit destructive fishing practices |
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· Policy objectives determined for internal purposes |
MAIN PERCEIVED CAUSES OF IUU FISHING: In general: no effective flag State control; open vessel registries; profit or economic motivation; displacement from other fisheries; ineffective implementation of coastal State fisheries management plans; limited resources for effective control by the flag State or coastal State. For a specified fishery: absence of a requirement for catch statistics to be collected; suppression of information thought to be unfavourable; local sale or consumption; inaccuracy in making returns; provisional licences; inadequate legal framework.