Ntara, Modesta Medard (2015) A Social analysis of contested fishing practices in Lake Victoria, Tanzania. Wageningen University, Wageningen. ISBN 978 94 6257-247-8
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a major problem with worldwide social, environmental, and economic impacts. Commonly linked to fish piracy or seafood fraud, IUU fishing describes fishing that violates international, regional, or domestic fisheries management, conservation, or reporting laws. As well as being a major contributor to the global ecological crisis of overfishing and biodiversity depletion, IUU fishing harms legitimate fishing activities and livelihoods, jeopardises food security, consolidates transnational crime, distorts markets, and undermines ongoing efforts to implement sustainable fisheries policies. There are similarities between IUU fishing and the illegal logging that deprives developing countries of valuable exports and taxes, impacts the livelihood of indigenous peoples and forest-dwelling communities, and causes massive deforestation and biodiversity depletion. Effective regulatory oversight and implementation of these activities is essential to avoid major adverse implications for present and future livelihoods that extend beyond fisheries (or forestry) to ecological balance itself. In order to solve these problems, measures that impose stringent import documentation, certification, or traceability requirements, regulate transhipment, or prohibit the trade in relevant products are very important. As with every major regulatory policy, such measures are likely to affect the existing conditions of trade between countries, many of whom are members of the World Trade Organization (WTO). This think-piece provides a comparative legal analysis of such measures and initiatives, and concludes with recommendations for governments, international organisations, private actors, and the global community.
| Item Type: | Documents |
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| Class Number: | 500.SOC032 |
| Keywords: | Tanzania, Lake Victoria, Fishing Communities, Fisheries Research, Small-scale Fisheries, Nile Perch, Case Studies, Overfishing, Fisheries Information, Fisheries Resources, Fish Marketing, Marine Fisheries, Import, Ban, Ecolabelling, Fisheries Management, Co-management, Commercial Fishing, Beach Seines, Longline Fisheries, Fish Processing, Labour, Women, Gender, Investments, Globalisation, Governance, Socio-economic Aspects, Uganda, Kenya |
| Subjects: | Right to Resources |
| Depositing User: | Chitti Babu ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 24 Jun 2022 04:24 |
| Last Modified: | 24 Jun 2022 04:24 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/16198 |
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