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- Title
Threats of illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing to biodiversity and food security in the Republic of the Congo.
- Authors
Doherty, Philip D.; Atsango, Benoit C.; Ngassiki, Gaston; Ngouembe, Appolinaire; Bréheret, Nathalie; Chauvet, Eva; Godley, Brendan J.; Machin, Lucie; Moundzoho, Baudelaire Dissondet; Parnell, Richard J.; Metcalfe, Kristian
- Abstract
Keywords: Africa; distant-water fleet; governance; illegal fishing; industrial fisheries; monitoring control and surveillance; policy; vessel monitoring system; África; flota de altura; gestión; monitoreo del control y la vigilancia; pesca ilegal; pesquería industrial; política; sistema de monitoreo de navíos EN Africa distant-water fleet governance illegal fishing industrial fisheries monitoring control and surveillance policy vessel monitoring system África flota de altura gestión monitoreo del control y la vigilancia pesca ilegal pesquería industrial política sistema de monitoreo de navíos 1463 1472 10 10/05/21 20211001 NES 211001 Introduction Globally, industrial fisheries have expanded their fishing grounds and effort to meet the demands of increasing populations (Berkes et al. 2006), leading to approximately 34% of the world's fishing stocks considered overexploited or depleted (FAO 2020). Much of the fishing by distant-water fleets in the Republic of the Congo (and across Africa) is facilitated by, and only possible as a result of, fisheries subsidies, without which fishing in waters far from port of origin would likely become unprofitable (Belhabib et al. 2019; Okafor-Yarwood & Belhabib 2019; Sumaila et al. 2016). The industrial zone (31,248 km SP 2 sp ; 93% of EEZ) extends from 6 nautical miles out to 200 nautical miles from the coastline, within which industrial fishing vessels registered in the Republic of the Congo and states with which the Republic of the Congo has entered into a fishing agreement can operate legally. Mean number of VMS locations per year categorized as fishing for (A) all fishing activity (n = 3 years), (B) time of day (day; night, n = 3 years), and (C) flag state of fishing vessels (distant-water fleet [DWF]; domestic fleet, n = 2 years).
- Subjects
SMALL-scale fisheries; FISHERIES; FISH food; FOOD security; FISH as food; MARINE resource management; OCEAN zoning; FOOTPRINTS
- Publication
Conservation Biology, 2021, Vol 35, Issue 5, p1463
- ISSN
0888-8892
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/cobi.13723