This Article will test a legal framing theory by arguing that insufficient
attention has been given to understanding large-scale IUU fishing as a
transnational organized criminal activity.17 Until recently, IUU fishing had
generally been regarded as a fishery resource management problem rather than
as an egregious criminal act. Part of this mischaracterization may be a result of
IUU fishing being a broadly dispersed phenomenon spread across a number of
different groups. There are arguably three types of IUU fishing: opportunistic
overfishing by usually law-abiding fishing interests who usually obtain permits