Today’s industrial fishing methods, particularly those utilised in distant water fisheries, are highly complex operations in terms of the gear used, fishing activity, catch storage, and vessel track monitoring.

Innovation through information and communication technologies is a key enabler in transforming food systems and holds great potential to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals.

Indian Ocean fisheries are some of the most important, accounting for 14.55% of the global marine capture harvest.

The Guidance document: Advancing end-to-end traceability responds to a critical need for consensus towards establishing end-to-end traceability

The paper has been designed as a handbook for Fisheries Administrators (a term used to denote those fisheries authorities responsible for decisions regarding the fisheries of their country)

The paper has been designed as a handbook for fisheries administrators for use when establishing or enhancing, monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS) systems in support of fisheries management initiatives.

During the first half of the 1990s, in response to the increasing concern about many of the world’s fisheries and following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), a number

During the first half of the 1990s, in response to the increasing concern about many of the world’s fisheries and following the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), a number of international fisheries instruments provided an impetus for countries to strengthen their fisheries management

Incentives for illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing are considerable given the financial benefits that can accrue in both largeand small-scale fishing operations, and in developed and developing countries alike.

The IUU Fishing Index was launched in early 2019 as a way of benchmarking and ranking countries for their vulnerability to, prevalence of and response to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The dedicated IUU Fishing Index website provides maps to visualize scores by indicator type and responsibility.

In early 2019, the IUU Fishing Risk Index was launched as a way of benchmarking and ranking countries based on their vulnerability to, prevalence of and response to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

This manual has been developed by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) and Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT), to support Air Patrols in the Pacific region. It is complementary to and supports the FFA Standard Operating Procedures - Pacific Maritime Security Program Aerial Surveillance.

Catch documentation schemes (CDS) have been a topic of debate for more than 16 years, and continue to mean different things to different people.

This document explores ways in which individual countries in seafood supply chains can, in their capacities as coastal, flag, port, processing or end-market states, contribute to maximizing the effectiveness of catch documentation schemes.

This paper discusses the potential value of catch documentation schemes (CDS) in deep-sea fisheries (DSF), and the implementation modalities that have to be envisaged, to ensure the effectiveness of this trade-based tool to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing poses grave risk to sustainable management of fish stocks and marine ecosystems with global losses ranging between $10 and $23.5 billion annually.

Shark catches and particularly trade data are often not reported to species level. There are also major discrepancies between reported catch and traded volumes of shark (Clarke, 2006).

This article is based on the executive summary of a report commissioned by the Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) to gain an understanding of the situation regarding plastic waste