Regulating IUU Fishing or

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• Regulating IUU Fishing or
• Combating IUU Operations?
• Olav Schram Stokke and Davor Vidas
• OECD Workshop on
• IUU Fishing Activities, 19-20 April 2004

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Overview

• Do we have the right diagnosis?
• Targeting IUU vessels
• Targeting IUU logistics
• Targeting IUU catch
• The IUU Operation

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The Law of the Sea domain

• Vessel registration and nationality
• making states less suitable
• making vessels less suitable
• Jurisdiction, control and enforcement at sea
• Port state jurisdiction and control
• The challenge

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Targeting IUU nuts and bolts

• Denial
• availability and limits
• blacklisting, whitelisting - public and private
• trade compatibility
• Naming and shaming
• corporate social responsibility
• Capacity reduction
• subsidies, buybacks, capital movements

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Targeting IUU commodities

• Catch documentation schemes
• infrastructural needs
• CITES listing?
• coverage and precision
• Ecolabelling
• Marine Stewardship Council

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Conclusions

• Attacking on a broad front
• Segments of insulation and vulnerability
• Mobilization and involvement
• states, organisations, individuals
• Fusion with broader issues
• corporate responsibility, subsidies, ecolabelling
• Information management