President Joe Biden signed a National Security Memorandum on June 27 “focused on illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing and associated labor abuses.”
To combat illegal fisheries and harmful fishing practices globally, the United States will increase coordination with both domestic agencies and foreign countries.
An Illegal Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing Action Alliance among the United States, the UK, and Canada is “a pledge to take urgent action” to improve the monitoring, control, and surveillance of fisheries, according to the White House statement release.
A five-year strategic plan engaging Senegal, Ecuador, Panama, Taiwan, and Vietnam will directly combat IUU fishing on the ground….