The European Union’s failure to properly enforce its own fishing regulations is allowing seafood linked to illegal fishing, environmental destruction and human rights abuses to enter the market, according to a new report from the EU IUU Fishing Coalition

The coalition – comprising the Environmental Justice Foundation, Oceana, The Nature Conservancy, The Pew Charitable Trusts and WWF EU – found that weak import controls and inconsistent implementation of the EU’s IUU Fishing Regulation between 2020 and 2023 have created dangerous loopholes.

The report alleges that major importing countries are carrying out only mininal checks.