A global database of licensed fishing vessels (whitelist) does not yet exist.
Cause of problem:
International agreements not functioning.
Troubleshooting steps:
- Restart your fisheries management political processes.
- Initialise basic international measures against IUU fishing.
- Uninstall "corporate greed 9.0"
- Reconnect your policy makers to ecological reality.
As a temporary fix please use:
http://oceans.greenpeace.org/blacklist
Created by Greenpeace, oceans.greenpeace.org/blacklist is the first ever one-stop reference database of blacklisted vessels - aggregating information from available official sources. Greenpeace hopes our database is short-lived and that the task of policing the oceans is taken up by an official international governance body such as the FAO or the UN without delay.
Background:
States and regional management bodies have the ability to create this global database of licensed fishing vessels (whitelist).Not having a publicly available database of fishing vessels licensed to fish in the different regions of the world’s oceans makes it too easy for fishing pirates to rob our oceans of $9 billion (US dollars) worth of fish per year.
Together with a whitelist (of licensed fishing vessels), we also need a blacklist - an official database of illegal fishing vessels and those that continue to fish in breach of management and conservation measures.
Regulators need these tools to tell the difference between legitimate operators/vessels/companies, and those breaking management rules or fishing without a license. Without transparent, efficient and timely access to this information, it is all but impossible for regulators to adequately police our oceans.
For more information on Greenpeace's Defending our Oceans campaign, and the fight against pirate fishing visit: oceans.greenpeace.org