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Project objectives:
the Global Initiative against Transnational Organized Crime (GI) based in Geneva was developing an Index of Organised Crime in Africa, a measure of 14 crimes by the scale, scope and impact country by country. IUU fishing was to be measured within the environmental crimes category. Poseidon prepared a baseline paper on IUU fishing covering:
definitional issues of IUU fishing
methodologies for assessing IUU fishing
with reference to Africa specifically recommendations for effective actions to better assess/record levels of IUU fishing