The Last Fish Swimming: The Global Crime of Illegal Fishing

The Last Fish Swimming: The Global Crime of Illegal Fishing
ISBN-10
1440830428
ISBN-13
9781440830426
Category
Political Science
Pages
176
Language
English
Published
2019-05-31
Publisher
ABC-CLIO
Author
Gohar A. Petrossian

Description

This book examines the global, local, and specific environmental factors that facilitate illegal fishing and proposes effective ways to reduce the opportunities and incentives that threaten the existence of the world's fish. • Provides a criminological analysis of illegal fishing through the application of two important environmental criminology perspectives (rational choice and situational crime prevention) • Highlights the countries most at risk, i.e. hot spots of illegal fishing, and the ports most frequently used to land illegally caught fish • Discusses environmental factors that increase or reduce the risk of illegal fishing • Includes summary tables on the most vulnerable species and on global, regional, and local factors contributing to illegal fishing • Provides a toolbox of empirically founded policy recommendations on how illegal fishing can be stopped

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