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Title: | International legal instruments and measures providing protection against illegal unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU): South African milieu |
Author: | Kabai, Michael |
Year: | 2012 |
Periodical: | Journal of African and international law (ISSN 1821-620X) |
Volume: | 5 |
Issue: | 3 |
Pages: | 509-535 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | marine fisheries fishery policy international law of the sea international agreements |
Abstract: | Illegal, unregulated and unreported fishing (IUU fishing) is attributed to various factors, like a high demand for fish and a lack of control over fishing activities both by vessels' flag states and by the coastal states in whose waters they fish. IUU fishing undermines management efforts either by a country's fishery authorities within exclusive economic zones (EEZs), or the competent Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs). Implementation of legal measures and legal instruments is needed to provide protection against IUU and to bring an end to it. Irrespective of all these measures, IUU has not significantly decreased. This paper examines the legal measures providing protection against IUU fishing within a South African context. The concept of IUU fishing is wide enough to include diverse issues, however, this paper restricts itself to IUU fishing within an EEZ of South Africa, and all unreported fishing in high seas subject to a RFMOs jurisdiction. Notes, ref. [ASC Leiden abstract] |