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- IUU is a major source of uncertainty in stock assessments (they cite Bray 2000; Evans 2000; Ices, 1994, 2000, and 2004)
- Most information available is anecdotal
- Most estimates are fishery-specific
- FAO estimates that IUU kills about 8 million TONNES per year
- Mostly Tuna and deep sea species
- "Constitutes a doubling of catch in the last 20 years" (they cite Schmidt 2004)
- CCAMLR estimates the amount of IUU toothfish taken between 1997 and 2000 to be about 90,000 tonnes (more than 2x the registered catch levels)
- NEAFC says that almost 20% of the 2001 trade in redfish was IUU (they cite NEAFC, 2002)
- ICCAT (the tuna people)