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Mauritius: Indian Ocean haven for pirate fishing vessels
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Contents
Causes
Evading detection
Pirate Fishing and the Southern
Ocean
Impacts:
Toothfish
Seabirds
The emergence of the toothfish fishery
Mauritius: Pirate Port
The Salvora Case
International Efforts
Mauritius: still harbouring pirates
Pirate Fishing: global problem
Mauritius:
challenge and opportunity
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The
international community is becoming increasingly concerned about pirate
fishing, with international negotiations currently underway to address
the global problem.
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UN General Assembly Resolution 54/32 Calls:
“6. ...upon all States to ensure that their vessels comply
with the conservation and management measures in accordance with
the Agreement [1995 UN Fisheries Agreement] that have been adopted
by sub-regional and regional fisheries management organizations
and arrangements;
“7. ...upon States not to permit vessels flying their flag
to engage in fishing on the high seas without having effective control
over their activities and to take specific measures to control fishing
operations by vessels flying their flag;”
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Pirate fishing:
a global problem
The international community is becoming increasingly concerned about
pirate fishing, with international negotiations currently underway to
address the global problem.
The UN FAO has established a process of negotiation for an International
Plan of Action to combat IUU fishing. This process was reinforced by a
Meeting of Fisheries Ministers in Rome in March 1999 which placed particular
emphasis on the problem of flags of convenience, and the meeting in April
1999 by the United Nations Commission on Sustainable Development (CSD).
The UN FAO has scheduled the first round of negotiations for 2nd-6th
October 2000. Among other measures, Greenpeace is calling for the inclusion
of measures that would close ports to flag of convenience vessels, close
markets to flag of convenience caught fish, and prevent companies from
owning or operating flag of convenience vessels.
The IUU fishing issue has also been addressed in a resolution adopted
by consensus by the United Nations General Assembly on November 24, 1999.
In debating the threats to the world’s oceans, the UN Secretary General
and the General Assembly placed particular emphasis on the need to eradicate
illegal fishing, in particular by fishing vessels flying flags of convenience.
Mauritius: challenge and
opportunity 
Mauritius: still harboring pirates
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