Fishing by dodgy fleets hurts economies, jobs in developing countries: Report

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Companies implicated in illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing can have a serious impact on the economies, job opportunities and overall welfare of the developing countries in whose waters they operate, according toThe report, released Feb. 16, used consolidated fisheries and satellite data to gauge the economic damage done by fishing fleets with shady track records in five vulnerable countries: Ecuador, Ghana, Peru, the Philippines, and Senegal.

Then, after consulting in-country stakeholders and investigative journalists to learn about unsustainable fishing practices in the five countries, the authors analyzed the satellite vessel-tracking data via a deep-learning algorithm to identify the fleets’ fishing maneuvers. They spotted, for example, vessels operating close to no-take zones, or foreign-owned vessels competing heavily with domestic ones in the same location.

“The identified job losses translate to a lot of economic losses , not just in terms of our GDP or the country’s income, but also the people involved who are actually losing the opportunities that they have for our waters,” Ocampo, who was not involved in the report, told Mongabay.that one of every five fish in the world’s seafood supply comes from IUU fishing.

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