From Piracy to Fisheries Crime: Reassessing Nigeria’s Maritime Security Framework in the Era of Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing
Nigeria’s maritime-security architecture has made major strides against piracy, but IUU fishing exposes a different enforcement gap. This article examines why fisheries crime should be integrated into maritime-security policy without collapsing ordinary fisheries violations into piracy, and proposes legal, surveillance, prosecution, port-control and regional reforms for a more complete blue-economy security framework.
