Chasing Red Herrings: Secrecy in Fisheries. Flags of Convenience, Secrecy and the Impact of Fisheries Crime Law Enforcement
By North Atlantic Fisheries Intelligence Group and INTERPOL
Secrecy, or the ability to keep one's identity hidden behind a corporate veil, is a key facilitator of fisheries crime, including tax crime and other ancillary crimes in the fisheries sector. Secrecy means that investigators “don’t know what they don’t know” and is a fundamental challenge to fisheries crime law enforcement. The focus of this report is the jurisdictions that facilitate secrecy in fisheries, the flags of convenience, and particularly those that are contracted out to private companies, the so-called private flags, and the impact flags of convenience and secrecy has on effective fisheries crime law enforcement.
NA-FIG, INTERPOL, the Nordic Council of Ministers and Norad 2017. 76p.