Development of Studies on IUU Fishing Alleviation Policies and Discourse Network Analysis: A Literature Review

Abstract

IUU Fishing has received increasing public attention in the last decade, due to various significant impacts, especially on the destruction of the marine environment. Meanwhile, the United Nations (UN) has established a global alleviation policy through the Sustainable Development Goals, which targets the practice of IUU fishing to be destroyed by 2020. In fact, the IUU Fishing index shows a slight increase, and 130-unit fishing vessels are still actively roaming. The success of existing IUU Fishing eradication policies is questionable, and one of the elements of success is the role of academics in supporting the policy process through scientific literature. This study aims to obtain an overview of the literature development to contribute to successfully implementing the IUU Fishing alleviation policy. By using two analytical techniques and elaborating on Discourse Network Analysis as the research focus being investigated, the authors review and map the development of their research. Bibliometric analysis and Content Analysis succeeded in answering the predetermined research questions. Opportunities for future studies are wide open to conduct studies focusing on implementing policies to eradicate IUU Fishing and DNA because these topics are dynamic, and the number of studies has tended to be low in the past 18 years.