Organisations and Related Documents

 

FAO Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations

• International Plan Of Action to Prevent, Deter And Eliminate IUU Fishing.
• Stopping Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing.
• Consultation Technique Sur La Pêche Illicite, Non Déclarée Et Non Réglementée - Résumé of documents for experts consultation on IUU Fishing organised by the Australian government and the FAO.
  

The European Commission - Fisheries homepage

• Combatting illegal fishing

US Department of State - Oceans homepage 

• Draft National Plan of Action of the United States to Prevent, Deter, and Eliminate IUU Fishing.

MAPA Ministerio de Agricultura, Pesca y Alimentación

• International Conference Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing.

COLTO Coalition of Legal Toothfish Operators

• The Alphabet boats - A case study of Toothfish Poaching in the Southern Ocean.

• Pirate Fishing Plundering the Oceans - Greenpeace International Campaign against pirate fishing
• Witnessing the Plunder - a report of the MV Greenpeace expedition to investigate pirate fishing in West Africa.
• The Plunder of Bluefin Tuna in the Mediterranean
• Greenpeace reports - links to further Greenpeace reports on Fishing.

• Illegal fishing continues to threaten 'Chilean Sea Bass' - a press release.

• Patagonian Toothfish - Are conservation and trade measures working?

• ITF Fisheries - Homepage for ITF Fisheries Division
• Troubled Waters - General Information on FOCs and Illegal Fishing
• More Troubled Waters - fishing, pollution and FOCs. Major group submission for the 2002 World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg.
• Flags of Convenience Campaign Report 2000.
• Flags of Convenience - a link for further information.

OPRT Organisation for Promotion of Responsible Tuna Fisheries 

• What is IUU/FOC fishing?

OCEANA

• Halting IUU Fishing: Enforcing International Fisheries Agreements

BIAC Business and Industry Advisory Committee to the OECD

CCAMLR Commission for the Conservation of Antartic Marine Living Resources

CCSBT Commission of Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna

ICCAT International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas

IMO International Maritime Organisation

IOTC  Indian Ocean Tuna Commission

IUCN The World Conservation Union

MSC Marine Stewardship Council. An organisation founded by Unilever and WWF International

NAFO Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organisation

NEAFC North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission

TUAC Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD

UNEP United Nations Environment Programme