date:Apr 02, 2013
ndation (EJF), sees the value of better-coordinated IUU efforts at the local level. Improving information sharing between coastal countries and importing countries is crucial to effectively addressing IUU fishing. EJF runs a community surveillance project in West Africa that allows fishing communities to document and report illegal fishing by trawlers that supply the global seafood market. EJF's work with fishing communities has resulted in a number of high-profile arrests of illegal trawlers, s