This study examines the importance of adjacency, or legal presence within or in proximity to domestic fishing grounds and fish landing points, with regards to fisheries crimes.

This editorial focuses specifically on the implications of the pandemic for small-scale fishers, including marketing and processing aspects of the sector, and coastal fishing communities.

Behavioural science can enhance ocean sustainability by providing insights into illegal fishing. Current enforcement criminalizes small-scale fishers and fails to address root causes, letting large-scale illegal fishing off the hook.

A key obstacle to understanding the scope of this problem is the limited data on activities that are intentionally obscured, such as drug trafficking.

In part IV of The Catch, the host examines the international efforts to curb illegal, unregulated, and unreported fishing.

This study provides a global assessment of the linkages between observed fisheries-related offenses across the oceans between 2000 and 2020.