The Blue Justice Initiative was launched by the Norwegian government in 2019 to help developing nations implement the 2018 Copenhagen Declaration on transnational organised crime in the fishing industry.
The fisheries sector is a vital source of livelihood for coastal communities that depend on the ocean and its resources. Along its entire value chain it is being hit by crime: illegal fishing, corruption, fraud, money laundering, drug and arms trafficking, human smuggling and modern slavery, much of it run by transnational criminal networks.
The damage reaches far beyond the water, to lost government revenue, food insecurity, labour rights violations and threats to peace and security.
Through the eyes of coastal communities in the Caribbean, the film follows the activists, NGOs, government officials, researchers and politicians in the Caribbean and Norway who are working to stem the tide of fisheries crime. Above all, it is a story of hope.
