Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in Oceania | The Index Podcast

Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, IUU Fishing, is a multi-billion dollar industry with links to modern slavery, corruption, environmental destruction, weak governance, complex corporate structures, illicit financial flows, tax abuse and financial secrecy - which makes it a perfect environment for transnational organized criminal networks to operate.In this episode Thin is joined by two experts to discuss the impact of IUU fishing in the region of Oceania, which covers Australia, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea and the Pacific Islanders - a region that relies in the fisheries industry.Presenter: Thin Lei WinSpeakers:Ian Urbina, Investigative journalist, Author and Director of The Outlaw Ocean Project - Twitter.Dr. Jade Lindley, Specialist in Transnational Organised Crime at the University Of Western Australia Law School and a member of the GI Network of Experts - Twitter.Additional Links:IUU Fishing IndexThe Outlaw Ocean ProjectOCIndex.netGlobal Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime