FishFORCE and Norwegian partners sign agreement to train port security staff: Fisheries crime, or “multicrimes” affecting the fisheries sector range from illegal capture of fish to human trafficking and forced labour, fraud, forgery, corruption, money laundering and tax and customs evasion. These crimes pose a massive challenge to fisheries law enforcement agencies in developing countries across the world. Source: News Latest News. Bay at forefront of drive to cut plastic in … [Read more...] about FishFORCE and Norwegian partners sign agreement to train port security staff
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Fisheries crime: May the FishFORCE be with us
Fisheries crime is far broader than illegal fishing: it encompasses any criminal activity linked to unlawful fishing, including tax evasion, fraud, human trafficking, drug trafficking – and even murder. Typically, organised fisheries crime is led by highly-structured, well-financed transnational criminal syndicates. They are slick operators who know crime on the high seas is difficult to police - but pressure is mounting globally to clamp down on offenders. On the African continent, Nelson … [Read more...] about Fisheries crime: May the FishFORCE be with us
Let the FishFORCE be with us
"Fisheries crime and the illegal harvesting, processing and trading of fish and seafood globally is so huge that it is in effect a parallel economic system that is undermining sustainable economic growth. Countries are being deprived of taxes; citizens of jobs, food and income; and fisheries and environments are being destroyed." These are the words of Professor Hennie van As, the Director of the Centre for Law in Action (CLA) and a professor of Public Law in the Faculty of Law at Nelson … [Read more...] about Let the FishFORCE be with us
