关键词: IUU, 西非, 海洋渔业, 欧盟, 对策, IUU fishing, Western Africa, Marine Fishery, EU, Strategies

Abstract: Marine fisheries (in particular small-scale fisheries) provide a vital source of food, employment, and economic well-being for people throughout the world coastal areas. Western Africa has the richest marine fishy resource, several million households along the coast and also inland are critically dependent on fishing for their livelihoods. However, fishing communities are often characterized as being amongst “the poorest of the poor”. As the world becoming a little country, IUU fishing has threaten marine ecosystem security, especially the Western Africa area. On the basis of comprehensive study on the literature and information relating to the IUU fishing, the paper analyzed the mainly impacts of IUU fishing, and discussed the present situation of IUU fishing of Western Africa, Instead of China, many members of the EU(Europe Union) is the mainly countries of Western Africa IUU fishing. The underlying causes of IUU fishing are a continued demand for fish and a lack of control over fishing activities. A range of measures are needed to help combat IUU fishing.