This paper explores corruption in global fisheries. While reducing corruption is critical for the effective management of the fisheries sector and the fulfilment of the UN’s sustainable development goals (SDGs, and SDGs14 and 16 in particular), to do so, it is necessary to first have a systematic and comprehensive understanding of what corruption is and how it is manifested in the sector. There is literature on illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing, but not much on corruption. The paper proposes an analytical framework and applies it with six revelatory cases to improve the conceptual clarity of corruption in fisheries. Specific corruption problems found in licensing, negotiating access agreements, lax enforcement, extortion, political corruption, money laundering and tax manipulation, human trafficking etc. can therefore be better identified through this analysis, which lays a base for systematic responses to tackling corruption in fisheries and accordingly furthering the sustainable development of the sector.

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探索渔业腐败

本文探讨了全球渔业中的腐败问题。虽然减少腐败对于渔业部门的有效管理和实现联合国的可持续发展目标（可持续发展目标，特别是可持续发展目标 14 和 16）至关重要，但要做到这一点，首先有必要系统和全面地了解什么腐败是以及它是如何在该部门表现出来的。有关于非法、无管制和未报告 (IUU) 捕鱼的文献，但关于腐败的文献不多。该文件提出了一个分析框架，并将其应用于六个具有启发性的案例，以提高渔业腐败的概念清晰度。在许可、谈判准入协议、执法不严、敲诈勒索、政治腐败、洗钱和税收操纵、人口贩运等方面发现的具体腐败问题。