Portstateperformance.org, launched Tuesday, presents a study of five years of movement data on 176 IUU-listed vessels, and concludes the majority of blacklisted ships continue to operate.
The research, unveiled in Rome at the United Nation’s Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) technical consultation on its proposed Port State Agreement, says the systemic inability of port states and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) to effectively monitor and punish IUU vessels.
“The most extraordinary result of our research was that only 55 of the 176 vessels on the combined IUU vessel list show up at all in any of the movement sources available,” Stefan Flothmann, Pew’s director of international ocean governance, told Intrafish.
“So
