Estimates of illegal and unreported fish in seafood imports to the USA

By G. Pramod, Katrina Nakamura, T. Pitcher, Leslie Delagran. 2014

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Illegal and unreported catches represented 20–32% by weight of wild-caught seafood imported to the USA in 2011, as determined from robust estimates, including uncertainty, of illegal and unreported fishing activities in the source countries. These illegal imports are valued at between $1.3 and $2.1 billion, out of a total of $16.5 billion for the 2.3 million tonnes of edible seafood imports, including farmed products. This trade represents between 4% and 16% of the value of the global illegal fish catch and reveals the unintentional role of the USA, one of the largest seafood markets in the world, in funding the profits of illegal fishing. Supply chain case studies are presented for tuna, wild shrimp and Chinese re-processed Russian pollock, salmon and crab imported to the USA. To address this critical issue of unintended financing of illegal fishing, possible remedies from industry practices and government policies may include improved chain of custody and traceability controls and an amendment to the USA Lacey Act.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Molecular Biology

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The Decline and Impending Collapse of the Atlantic Salmon (Salmo salar) Population in the North Atlantic Ocean: A Review of Possible Causes (2021, background): “marine resources became a widespread fact during the 20th century (Worm et al. 2006; Anon 2009; Pramod et al. 2014; Funge-Smith et al. 2015; Telesetsky 2015).”
The New Blue Economy: the Future of Sustainability (2016, background): “Half of the fish imported into the U.S. in 2014 was a farmed product (given the escalating dietary needs of a booming global population, aquaculture will have to be part of the solution) (Pramod et al. 2014, 103).”