EJF, Environmental Justice Foundation (2022) The Ever-widening net: Mapping the scale, nature and corporate structures of illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing by the Chinese distant-water fleet. Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF).
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This report presents a comprehensive analysis of China’s vast, opaque and, at times illegal global fisheries footprint, with the specific aim of informing appropriate and effective responses by fisheries decision-makers in China and globally. In large parts, it focuses specifically on IUU fishing and associated crimes such as human rights abuses. The CDWF has been chosen as the focus of the study given its size and global reach, the opacity of its operations, and its significant presence within countries in the Global South, where some fish populations are over-exploited to the detriment of coastal communities who rely heavily on healthy marine ecosystems. It is informed primarily through a rigorous review of data published by the Chinese Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Affairs (MARA) detailing its various offshore fishery projects, i.e. vessels approved by MARA to operate outside of Chinese waters; and information retrieved from the Criminal Record of Fishing Vessels and associated platform ‘Spyglass’. This is the first such published analysis of official MARA data on its DWF, supplementing reports produced elsewhere that have relied on the use of non-governmental sources such as satellite data to estimate the size and location of the CDWF.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Keywords: | Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (IUU), China, Distant Water Fleet, Human Rights, Coastal Communities, Marine Ecosystems, Environmental Justice Foundation (EJF) |
| Subjects: | Decent Work Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Jeeva ICSF Rajan |
| Date Deposited: | 02 Jun 2022 11:53 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Jun 2022 11:53 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/16813 |
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