Combating illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
Illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing is a continuing global threat that undermines fisheries management and conservation efforts.
Combating IUU requires effective collaboration across the international community. IUU fishing can push overexploited fish stocks toward collapse, cause significant damage to marine ecosystems and impact the long-term sustainability of fishing. IUU has been linked to other maritime crimes, human rights abuses, violent conflict and food and economic insecurity.
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Impact through tools, technology and expert analysis
Tools and technology including satellite tracking and machine learning, supported by expert analysis, are providing the ability to monitor fishing activities in more comprehensive and cost-effective ways.
The application and integration of these tools and technologies offer the opportunity to advance ocean governance and effectively combat IUU fishing.
Cooperation, at national, regional and international levels, is required to effectively identify and address IUU fishing. National agencies and regional organizations need to access, understand, use and share data and information to identify and act on IUU fishing.
Why the JAC?
The JAC is uniquely positioned to provide access to, and an understanding of, a range of data that supports national fisheries enforcement agencies and regional organizations to combat IUU fishing.
By working collaboratively, the JAC organizations provide scalable, efficient, and effective support that has real impact. The JAC also provides data analysis and intelligence capabilities and Monitoring Control and Surveillance (MCS) capacity development.
Our members
About the JAC members
The IMCS Network is an informal, voluntary organization that connects and supports members from national fisheries agencies and regional fisheries organizations. The IMCS Network promotes and facilitates communication, cooperation, coordination, and capacity development across the fisheries MCS, compliance and enforcement community.
Global Fishing Watch (GFW) is an international nonprofit organization dedicated to advancing ocean governance through increased transparency of human activity at sea. By creating and publicly sharing map visualizations, data and analysis tools, we aim to enable scientific research and transform the way our ocean is managed. We believe human activity at sea should be public knowledge in order to safeguard the global ocean for the common good of all.
TMT is a non-profit organization that provides national fisheries authorities and international organizations with high-quality fisheries intelligence, analysis, and capacity building, targeting a reduction of illegal fishing and broader improvements in ocean governance. Its Fisheries Analytical Capacity Tool (FACT) supports analysis of the identities and characteristics of the global fishing fleet and the companies that operate it.
C4ADS is a nonprofit organization with a mission to defeat the illicit networks that threaten global peace and security. The organization enhances global security through innovative data science, software development, large-scale partnership building, and most importantly, empowering our analysts in every way.
Skylight is a maritime monitoring and analysis software platform developed to provide transparency and actionable intelligence to detect and deter illegal, underreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing. As part of the Allen Institute for AI (AI2), a non-profit research institute founded by the late Paul G. Allen, the platform benefits from a world-class research and engineering team that’s advancing the use of AI to address IUU fishing.
