Illegal fishing and whaling are offenses of taking marine life outside the law. The Food and Agriculture Organization calls illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing one of the greatest threats to marine ecosystems, because it undermines national and regional efforts to manage fisheries sustainably and to conserve marine biodiversity. It takes advantage of corrupt administrations and weak management regimes, especially in developing countries lacking monitoring, control and surveillance, and it occurs on the high seas and in national waters. INTERPOL targets the criminal networks behind it, not individual artisanal fishermen, and has helped countries detain illegal fishing vessels and prosecute members of criminal groups.
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Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations: IUU fishing
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Illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing remains one of the greatest threats to marine ecosystems
INTERPOL: Fisheries-related crimes
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Our intelligence officers support member countries to identify and disrupt criminal networks, not individual artisanal fishermen.
Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing (Wikipedia)
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing (IUU) is a broad term that refers to fishing without the permission of a government, or in contravention of its laws and regulations; unreported or misreported fishing; and fishing that is conducted in an area with no applicable conservation or management measures.
Wikipedia, Blast fishing
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Blast fishing, fish bombing, dynamite fishing or grenade fishing is a destructive fishing practice using explosives to stun or kill schools of fish for easy collection.
Cyanide fishing, Wikipedia
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Cyanide fishing is a method of collecting live fish, mainly for use in aquariums, which involves spraying a sodium cyanide mixture into a habitat in order to incapacitate the fish there.
Shark Finning (Wikipedia)
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In legal contexts the use of the term 'shark finning' can refer specifically to this practice of removing the fins from live sharks and discarding the carcass while still at sea. For these legal purposes the removal of fins on land during catch processing is not necessarily considered to be shark finning.
Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School: 16 U.S. Code § 916c - Unlawful acts
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It shall be unlawful for any person subject to the jurisdiction of the United States (1) to engage in whaling in violation of the convention or of any regulation of the Commission , or of this subchapter, or of any regulation of the Secretary of Commerce ;
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