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Find out how your country plays a role in the illegal decimation of the Patagonian Toothfish.
What do we mean by pirate fishing vessels
anyway?
Also, check out our of known pirate fishing vessels in the Southern Ocean.
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They use “dummy” companies to hide their owners’ identities and go to
extraordinary lengths to conceal international trade routes. Their vessels
sometimes carry no markings at all to mask their identities at sea.
What Do We
Mean by Pirate Fishing Anyway?
Pirate fishing refers to illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing.
This trend has been recognised by governments as a major threat to marine
biodiversity. Pirates operate world-over. They move from fishery to fishery
taking as much fish as they can pull onboard.
They don’t care about what impacts they have on fish stocks or any other
species caught in their fishing gear. In some cases they are driving species
to extinction. They use “dummy” companies to hide their owners’ identities
and go to extraordinary lengths to conceal international trade routes.
Their vessels sometimes carry no markings at all to mask their identities
at sea. Some companies buy and fly “flags of convenience” from countries
whose flags are for sale with no questions asked. They do this to dodge
fishing rules set by their own countries and the international community.
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