The seafood sector and governments must join forces to combat illegal fishing

Jim Leape, World Economic Forum Fisheries & Aquaculture

The seafood sector and governments must join forces to combat illegal fishing
Riddhiman Bhowmik on Unsplash

Around the world, illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is putting fish stocks, human rights and marine ecosystems in peril. Largely out of sight, IUU fishers steal millions of tonnes of fish from the ocean each year and take billions of dollars out of national economies. They also pose a threat to the responsible fishers and fishing nations who supply the fish and seafood to markets across the world and that billions rely on for critical protein and nutrition.

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