When The Pew Charitable Trusts and the International Seafood Sustainability Foundation (ISSF) set out to host a series of expert workshops about compliance in RFMOs, two questions came to the fore: How does a lack of compliance undermine fisheries management? And how can governments work together to incentivize and enforce adherence to the rules?
The workshops, which occurred in September 2020 and March 2021, each brought together more than 30 experts from RFMO secretariats and compliance committees, including from all five tuna RFMOs, international organizations, academia and nongovernmental organizations, to discuss the compliance challenges facing RFMOs and potential solutions.
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https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2021/09/01/enhanced-monitoring-and-enforcement-needed-to-improve-sustainability-of-international-fisheries