Collective Best Practices for Well-Managed at Sea Transshipment

This report highlights three facets of transshipment as sea where improvements can be made to increase transparency, they include, management best practices, data reporting best practices, and monitoring best practices. The policies include 100 percent observer coverage either human or electronic for all at-sea transshipment events, require information on all at-sea transshipment events to be shared with the relevant RFMO, prohibit vessels from acting as both a fishing vessel and carrier vessel on the same trip and a multitude of other policies that fisheries can work towards implementing.