UPDATES & RESOURCES

2018 has been a busy year for the Combined IUU List website. Since its relaunch in March, the site has provided high quality, up to date information on IUU listed vessels to over 6500 users from across the globe. Users are accessing the site from 159 countries, with the largest numbers coming from the United States, United Kingdom, China, Thailand, Spain, the Philippines, Taiwan, Vietnam, Indonesia and France. The new download function has proved popular, and has provided us

The Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement, one of the newest operational RFMOs, covering non-tuna species in the Indian Ocean, has adopted its first IUU vessel list. Delegates to the Fifth Meeting of the Parties, held in Thailand in June 2018, agreed to the proposed listing of the Comoros flagged fishing vessels DIEGO STAR 2 and DIEGO STAR 3, both of which fished in the SIOFA area without being on the Record of Authorised Vessels. Meanwhile, GFCM, the Mediterranean non-tu

Five vessels have been added to the Combined IUU List. The vessels were IUU-listed by the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) at their 22nd Session, held in Bangkok in May 2018 (full IOTC IUU list available here). The fishing vessels CHAICHANACHOKE 8, CHAINAVEE 54, CHAINAVEE 55 and SUPPHERMNAVEE 21 were sighted fishing in Somali waters in March and April 2017. The vessels were flagged to Djibouti at the time, and were not authorised to fish for tuna or tuna-like species in th

Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT), have launched a new Combined IUU Vessel List website, with new functions and richer data, to give users even better access to regularly updated, high quality information on IUU-listed fishing vessels. The Combined IUU Vessel List www.iuu-vessels.org aims to provide the best available, up to date information on all vessels that appear on the lists of IUU fishing vessels published by Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs), as well as fishi

From Stop Illegal Fishing: https://stopillegalfishing.com/news-articles/tanzania-acts-stop-infamous-poaching-vessel-atlantic-wind-returning-fishing-operations/ Zanzibar Maritime Authority has taken action to prevent the notorious ATLANTIC WIND from resuming fishing operations, by removing the vessel from the Tanzanian register of vessels. Whilst operating as the YONGDING the ATLANTIC WIND was arrested in Cape Verde in 2015. The vessel had been the subject of an INTERPOL Purpl

Three vessels have been added to the Combined IUU List. The vessels were IUU-listed by CCAMLR at the 35th Annual Meeting, held in Hobart, Australia, in October 2016. The fishing vessels NORTHERN WARRIOR (IMO 8808903) and ANTONY (IMO 8808903) were IUU-listed for providing support to IUU listed vessels. Both are currently under detention in Spain. ANDREY DOLGOV (IMO 8514772) was IUU listed for attempting to offload illegally caught toothfish in China. This vessel was previously

The toothfish poacher Pion, formerly Piscis, South Boy, Gale, Yin Peng, Chu Lim and the Bird has changed flag to Honduras. The vessel has been flagged to North Korea, Togo and Mongolia the last five years. The vessel is IUU listed by CCAMLR and by the South East Atlantic Fishery Organization SEAFO. The vessel is thus subject to sanctions like denial of access to port in the member states of these organizations such as the China, Korea, Japan, Australia, the EU, South Africa

The Trygg Mat Foundation today launches an online, combined IUU vessel list. The list is published in cooperation with Stop Illegal Fishing, a Working Group of the NEPAD Agency’s Partnership for African Fisheries Programme. The NEPAD Agency is the implementing arm of the African Union. The list contains all vessels black-listed by any of the eight Regional Management Organisations that currently operate lists of vessels that have been involved in IUU fishing. The list is con