23:04, March 4, 2013
Interpol has launched “Project Scale” to tackle illegal fishing by coordinating transnational operations to target offenders and disrupt trafficking routes, according to an announcement.
Transnational fisheries crime, which includes harvesting prohibited species and fishing out-of-season, keeping more than the quota, or fishing without a license, is estimated to cost the global economy $23 billion annually, according to Interpol. The last decade saw an increase in transnational and organized criminal networks involved in fisheries crime, the agency said, and now the practice threatens the extinction of some species. Fisheries crime also affects food security and is a politically destabilizing factor due to the rise in corruption that accompanies it.
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