NSTletters: The IUU list can be a powerful instrument for prioritising inspections, facilitating arrests and condemning vessels involved in IUU fishing activities.
The IUU list can be a powerful instrument for prioritising inspections, facilitating arrests and condemning vessels involved in IUU fishing activities. - File pic, for illustration purposes onlyThe international community has acknowledged illegal fishing with a specific term, IUU fishing.
President Joko Widodo issued a presidential regulation to eradicate illegal fishing in Indonesia and set up a task force. This was a response from the country toward years of illegal fishing conducted in Indonesian territory and millions of dollars in losses from this activity. It includes the fishing activities in the area where there are no regulations on the conservation or management measures about the catch and where such fishing activities are conducted in a manner inconsistent with state responsibilities for the conservation of living marine resources under international law.
The Indonesian authorities, as a member of RFMOs, is obliged to implement Conventions and Management Measures of those RFMOs at specific levels of national jurisdictions, particularly the Exclusive Economic Zones . From this point, Indonesia should monitor every fishing vessel registered under Indonesian flag when they access fishery resources in RFMOs area.
Furthermore, IUU fishermen often ignore the existence of marine-protected areas established by the RFMOs to support the recovery of such overexploited stocks.
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