| Abstract: | This research suggests that opportunities exist for a wide range of criminal activity in Australia’s commercial fishing sector.Organised
crime is attracted to the fishing industry because it is percieved as being a low-risk, high-gain endeavour involving high-value,
low-volume product with a lucrative overseas market. Jurisdictions are trying to implement strategies to inhabit these activities
in valuable, but diminishing sectors, such as abalone. These efforts have to extend across all attractive seafood products,
for example, seahorse and shark fin. To do so sucessfully will require a range of operational, legeslative and educational
strategies, implemented uniformly and (where possible) simultaneously across jurisdictions and bolstered by international
support and cooperation. This will inhibit the likehood of displacement and will result in a greater ability by fisheries
enforcement agencies to focus their resources.
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