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The IUU Fishing Index, 2021
Abstract
The IUU Fishing Index was launched in early 2019 as a way of benchmarking and ranking countries for their vulnerability to, prevalence of and response to illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing. The dedicated IUU Fishing Index website (www.iuufishingindex.net) provides maps to visualize scores by indicator type and responsibility. The 2021 IUU Fishing Index covers all 152 coastal countries of the world, and for each country a score is calculated based on a suite of 40 indicators. These relate to the prevalence of IUU fishing in each country and the country’s vulnerability and response to it, as assessed according to the country’s coastal, flag, port and general state responsibilities. The database underpinning the IUU fishing scores in 2021 contains 5 681 separate data entries, based on both publicly available data and expert opinion, with a high (98%) completion rate across all indicators and countries. The methodology used for the 2021 version of the Index remains the same as for the 2019 version, with one exception, relating to the replacement of one indicator with a more relevant one.
... The existence of these factual discrepancies raises the question, what is the level of success in implementing IUU Fishing eradication policies that are present at the international level (perhaps also at the regional level) in resolving this troubling practice? The successful implementation of a public policy is, indeed, supported by several elements, one of which is the role of the actor or stakeholder [15][16][17]. Of the many actors, some have quite a strong influence but have moderate or low interest, namely academics or scholars. ...
IUU Fishing has received increasing public attention in the last decade, due to various significant impacts, especially on the destruction of the marine environment. Meanwhile, the United Nations (UN) has established a global alleviation policy through the Sustainable Development Goals, which targets the practice of IUU fishing to be destroyed by 2020. In fact, the IUU Fishing index shows a slight increase, and 130-unit fishing vessels are still actively roaming. The success of existing IUU Fishing eradication policies is questionable, and one of the elements of success is the role of academics in supporting the policy process through scientific literature. This study aims to obtain an overview of the literature development to contribute to successfully implementing the IUU Fishing alleviation policy. By using two analytical techniques and elaborating on Discourse Network Analysis as the research focus being investigated, the authors review and map the development of their research. Bibliometric analysis and Content Analysis succeeded in answering the predetermined research questions. Opportunities for future studies are wide open to conduct studies focusing on implementing policies to eradicate IUU Fishing and DNA because these topics are dynamic, and the number of studies has tended to be low in the past 18 years.
... Pulse events are discrete but quickly affect the socio-ecological system and its functioning (ibid). To find the relevant information, a search of papers and reports with the keywords "WIO" "governance" and "management" • The 2021 IUU Index report (Macfadyen et al., 2021): A global report on the state of IUU fishing at the global and regional levels. This report provided information on the state of IUU fishing and related challenges faced by countries and regions, including the WIO. ...
The Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) intend to "achieve a better and more sustainable future for all people in the world" 1. They have become a key driver for policy and decision-making in many regions, including in the Western Indian Ocean (WIO) region. This paper analyses national and regional progress towards achieving SDG 14 in the WIO. Progress of four of the SDG 14 targets that were due in 2020 are analysed. SDG 14 has influenced regional and national policy agendas but current tools to measure this progress fail to provide a detailed picture of achievement towards each target for countries in the WIO. The paper highlights that the region has shown limited success in achieving the targets and SDG 14 targets are unlikely to be reached by 2030. The WIO region lags behind with regard to marine conservation related targets. More than half of the countries have low to average progress on SDG 14.2 on marine areas being covered by area-based management tools. Even more countries are far from achieving the 10 % coverage of marine protected areas under SDG 14.5. The region is performing better with regards to fisheries management targets with most countries classified as making average to good progress towards SDG 14.4 on sustainable stocks and SDG 14.6 on addressing harmful subsidies and IUU fishing. The diversity of the socioeconomic and governance contexts in the WIO countries contributes to different levels of progress. The fairly positive ecological state of the WIO supports progress towards SDG 14. Understanding barriers to progress is fundamental to help with the prioritisation of the actions needed to meet the SDG 14 targets by 2030. Regional actors and policy-makers will need to increase their ambitions to meet the SDG 14 targets and ensure a healthy ocean and improved prospects for the region and its citizens. To account for barriers in progress towards SDG 14, the WIO region needs appropriate reporting and monitoring mechanisms and it should follow a holistic regional approach of ocean governance integrating conservation and sustainable resource use. It needs to build capacity and knowledge sharing for implementation of SDG 14 and ocean governance at various levels. Improved implementation of SDG targets will have social, economic and environmental benefits within the region.
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