IUU Fishing As a Flag State Accountability Paradigm

The plight of the ocean calls for our attention with increasing urgency, and illegal, unreported and unregulated or 'IUU' fishing' is a known contributor to its decline. IUU fishing is used as an umbrella term for a wide number of fishing and concomitant activities with the potential of inflicting serious damage to ocean living resources, and to the human communities that depend on them--