IUU Fishing: ‘Policy, Regulation and Management System’ Gap Identification and Possible Intervention in the Context of Bangladesh
Author : Afifat Khanam Ritika, Research Officer, BIMRAD
06 Feb 2022

The incidents of IUU fishing activities are of significant concern to the littoral states of the Bay of Bengal. Frequent cases of IUU fishing arrests by India and Sri Lanka in the Palk Strait, by India and Pakistan in the Rann of Kutch, and by India and Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal witness to this point (Pooja Bhatt, International Law Studies). Among coastal states of the Bay of Bengal, no countries are better poised to address challenges of IUU fishing than Bangladesh. Unfortunately, IUU fishing activities in the maritime zones of Bangladesh have been persisted due to lack of legal and administrative monitoring, and surveillance mechanisms. World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) and Trygg Mat Tracking (TMT) disclosed a report that indicates gaps in terms of both geographic locations and species that trigger IUU fishing in the BoB.....