Netting People: Treaties Reducing Illicit Fishing and Human Traficking

February 12, 2014

Testimony
Testimony by CFR fellows and experts before Congress.

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In his testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, Mark P. Lagon discusses illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing, the Port States Measures Agreement, and human trafficking as it relates to fishing vessels and illegal fishing worldwide.

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