Letters: Authors of IUU paper object to characterizing it as overly broad
SEAFOOD.COM NEWS [letters] April 9, 2014
Dear John
Seafood from unregulated fisheries was not included in the study. Included are (1) seafood from vessels operating in areas without the legal authority to fish and (2) seafood from unreported catches that must be reported by law.
The methodology was used first by Agnew et al 2009 and updated here for 2011. Filtering US customs data took several months then our initial results underwent 8 months of country-level review before peer review at Marine Policy to confirm scientific rigor. It's not perfect being the first attempt to measure IUU for US imports but the numbers are backed by a tower of old fashioned evidence and solid as science can be.
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