Promote good business behaviour
- Demand business transparency and clarify regarding registries, beneficiaries and operators, corporate structures, track records, licences and agreements.
- Closely monitor companies previously engaged in wrongdoing.
- Establish a ranking system, with a list of undesirable companies and penalties.
Foster international collaboration
- Cultivate alliances with organisations, governments and NGOs to share best practices and resources, and with international bodies and donors to support implementation.
- Collaborate with neighbouring countries and international organisations to address shared fisheries resources and ensure regional coordination.
- Establish a single global IUU fishing list.
- Create more marine protected areas (MPAs).
- Review and reform government subsidies to fishing companies to ensure promotion of sustainable, responsible practices – avoiding subsidies for companies that engage in abusive behaviour.
- Improve transparency of fishing company structures by creating a unique – independently audited – global registry of ownership, vessel registration, catch data, and past wrongdoings.
- Strengthen regulations and international cooperation to curb the use of tax havens and flags of convenience (FoCs).
Enforce and sharpen internal regulation
- Implement stricter regulations and monitoring to reduce incidental fishing for the fishmeal market in Peru and promote the sustainable use of forage fish.
- Enforce stricter anti-shark finning laws and regulations in Peru, and promote shark conservation through education and awareness campaigns.
- Manage and restrict trawling in Senegal and Ghana to mitigate its impact on local fishers and their livelihoods. This entails: building capacity for fisheries management, enforcement and good governance; and ensuring governments successfully control their domestic vessels and activity in their EEZs.
- Crack down on illegal saiko fishing in Ghana by increasing monitoring and enforcement and promoting alternative livelihoods for affected communities.
- Regulate and drastically reduce the use of fish aggregating devices (FADs) in Ecuador to minimise bycatch and environmental impact.
