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Ecosystems and Biodiversity in Deep Waters and High Seas
A report prepared by Kristina M. Gjerde
UNEP 2006
http://www.iucn.org/en/news/archive/2006/06/16_unep_high_seas_lr.pdf

 

High Seas Task Force  A Ministerially-led task force on illegal, unreported and uregulated fishing on the high seas.  Final Report 2006: Closing the Net – Stopping Illegal Fishing on the High Seas

Executive Summary

Full Report

 

Pirates and Profiteers:  How Pirate Fishing Fleets are Robbing People and Oceans
Environmental Justice Foundation, 2005
http://www.ejfoundation.org/pdf/pirates_and_profiteers.pdf

 

High seas bottom trawl fisheries and their impacts on the biodiversity of vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems

Executive Summary

Full Report

 

Impacts of trawl gears and scallop dredges on benthic habitats, populations and communities  2006
http://www.livingoceans.org/newsevents/pdfs/SAR-AS2006_025_E.pdf

 

International plan of action to prevent, deter and eliminate illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing
http://www.daffa.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/5857/ipoa.pdf

 

The Changing Nature of High SeasFishing: How flags of convenience provide cover for illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing

Executive Summary

Full Report

 

The Social Dimension of IUU Fishing, April 2004
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/32/32/31492524.PDF

 

Halting IUU Fishing: Enforcing International Fisheries Agreements, Oceana
http://www.oceana.org/index.php?id=1029&L=1%5C%5C%27%29%3B

 

Trade and marketplace measures to promote sustainable fishing practices May 2006

Executive summary

Full Report

 

Fisheries, international trade and sustainable development:
Policy Discussion Paper (October 2006)

Executive summary

Full Report

 

The Status of Natural Resources on the High Seas – An Independent Study conducted by:  The Southampton Oceanography Centre and Dr. A. Charlotte de Fontaubert
Part 1:  An Environmental Perspective
Part 2:  Legal and Political Considerations
http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/pdf/highseas.pdf

 

Roadmap to Recovery:  A Global Network of Marine Reserves
March 21, 2007.  By:  Callum M. Roberts, Leanne Mason, and Julie P. Hawkins
http://www.greenpeace.org/usa/press/reports/roadmap-to-recovery-a-global

 

Legal – High Seas Marine Protected Areas
http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/pdf/cbd-ts-19.pdf

 

Toward a Strategy for High Seas marine Protected Areas:  Proceedings of the IUCN, WCPA and WWF Experts Workshop on High Seas Marine Protected Areas, 15-17 January 2003, Malaga, Spain. 

http://www.iucn.org/themes/marine/pdf/GjerdeBreideHSMPA.pdf

 

More Troubled Waters: Fishing, Pollution and Flags of Convenience
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions, Trade Union Advisory Committee to the OECD, International Transport Workers’ Federation, Greenpeace International
2002
http://www.itfglobal.org/files/seealsodocs/ENG/976/moretroubledwaters.pdf