Professor Hennie Van As

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