In the middle of the south Atlantic, more than 1,000 miles from continental mainland, lies one of the smallest and most remote fisheries in the world.
Less than a dozen vessels operate in the 3,500-metric-ton Chilean seabass fishery off isolated South Georgia in a fishing season lasting just a few months.
It's now the third-highest scoring Marine Stewardship Council (MSC)-certified fishery, and one of the most intensively managed marine environments on the planet.
It was a very different picture a decade ago.
“Historically, there was quite a lot of illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing around South Georgia, certainly throughout the southern ocean,” said Martin Collins, director of fisheries at the government of South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands (GSGSSI).
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