"TIAR 21: Maritime security, the TIAR, and IUU fishing in the Western Hemisphere"
Wilder Alejandro Sanchez
The Southern Tide
Center for International Maritime Security
October 16, 2020
Originally published: http://cimsec.org/tiar-21-maritime-security-the-tiar-and-iuu-fishing-in-the-western-hemisphere/46145
The Southern Tide
Written by Wilder Alejandro Sanchez, The Southern Tide addresses
maritime security issues throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. It
discusses the challenges regional navies face including limited defense
budgets, inter-state tensions, and transnational crimes. It also
examines how these challenges influence current and future defense
strategies, platform acquisitions, and relations with global powers.
“We
focus on partnerships…Our partners want to work with us. They want the
advantage of the United States education, training, exercises and
military equipment. It’s the best in the world. And so it’s up to us to
deliver that in a way that’s relevant and also provides a return on
investment for American taxpayer. So that is our focus.” –Navy Adm.
Craig S. Faller, commander of U.S. Southern Command, before the Senate Armed Services Committee July 9, 2019.
By Wilder Alejandro Sanchez
Introduction
An
international fishing fleet is currently sailing through international
waters in the South Pacific, passing close to Ecuador and Peru, and it
is currently sailing close to Chile en route to Antarctica The navies of
these countries are on alert and governments are sharing information to
monitor the fleet.
In
light of this development, what more can regional governments do to
jointly combat illegal, unreported, or unregulated (IUU) fishing? One
tool in the region’s arsenal could be amended in order to combat this
particular type of threat: the Inter-American Reciprocal Assistance
Treaty (Tratado Inter-Americano de Asistencia Recíproca: TIAR), more commonly known as the Rio Treaty as or the Rio Pact.
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