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Parliamentary Toolkit on Ending IUU Fishing
This Parliamentary Toolkit provides insight into IUU fishing, how it relates to human security, and highlights the role parliamentarians can play in protecting the Oceans and supporting the implementation of SDG 14: Life Below Water
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This Parliamentary Toolkit provides insight into IUU fishing, how it relates to human security, and highlights the role parliamentarians can play in protecting the Oceans and supporting the implementation of United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 14: Life Below Water.
It further offers practical guidance, tools, and resources designed to support lawmakers to undertake legislative and outreach activities that thwart illegal fishing.
The toolkit introduces international treaties critical to addressing IUU fishing; examples of effective strategies used by parliamentarians; and technical assistance to support ratification and implementation. The Oceans span the globe. Parliamentarians are crucially positioned as representatives of their constituencies to take action at the national level that will have true global impact.
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- Publication Type: Factsheet
- Publication Date: December 2021
- Author(s): Parliamentarians for Global Action