In recognition of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization’s (FAO) Declaration of 5 June as the International Day for the Fight against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing, CCAMLR joins the global fisheries community in drawing attention to the threats posed by IUU fishing activities.

In the 1990s, faced with growing IUU fishing for toothfish, CCAMLR took action to confront and combat this far-reaching issue: