No More Excuses: Check Your Vessels
Screen against blacklists, sanctions and more, all in one place.
The good stuff
Vessel Details
This tool draws insights from over 350,000 harmonized profiles on fishing vessels.
Compliance Risks
Screen every public blacklist, US trade bands and other risks.
Streamlined
This lookup couldn't be easier to use—just enter any identifier and get results.
Free for the First 500 Users
This is a brand new product and we want to make improvements with your feedback.
Full Details
How does the lookup work?
Conduct a vessel search by entering any of these vessel identifiers in the search bar and pressing the search icon:
Name
Call sign
MMSI
IMO Number
National Registration Number
RFMO-issued ID
Searches return up to 5 matching results. There is a limit of queries per 10-minute interval to avoid abuse of this free tool - for unrestricted access contact sales.
What does the risk profile mean?
Blackists are public listings of vessels known to be engaged in Illegal, Unreported or Unregulated fishing. Blacklists are usually published by Regional Fisheries Management Organizations or individual countries. Sourcing from these vessels may result in increased scrutiny by law enforcement or present avoidable reputation/brand risks.
Withhold Release Orders and Findings are issued by the United States government for vessels where there are ongoing concerns of forced labor onboard. If discovered, US imports of seafood harvested using these vessels will be blocked, resulting in supply chain disruption and additional costs.
The Outlaw Ocean Project is an investigative reporting NGO that publishes details of vessels the organization has identified as having a risk of illegal fishing or forced labor. These vessels are not illegally operating unless they are sanctioned or blacklisted, but sourcing from them may present reputation/brand risks.Which blacklists are included?
IUU.fishing leverages a number of authoritative public registries. It includes but is not limited to blacklists published by the following Regional Fisheries Management Organizations:
Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR),Commission for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT),
General Fisheries Commission for the Mediterranean (GFCM),
Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission (IATTC),
International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas (ICCAT),
Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC),
Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO),
North East Atlantic Fisheries Commission (NEAFC),
North Pacific Fisheries Commission (NPFC),
South East Atlantic Fisheries Organisation (SEAFO),
Southern Indian Ocean Fisheries Agreement (SIOFA),
South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation (SPRFMO),
Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)
What authorized vessels are included?
Vessel Lookup leverages a harmonized database of over 350,000 fishing and transshipment vessels from dozens of official public registries. It includes but is not limited to Regional Fisheries Management Organization vessel lists and the following national vessel registries:
- Costa Rica
- European Union
- Belgium, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany, Denmark, Spain, Estonia, Finland, France, The UK, Greece, Croatia, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Latvia, Malta, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania, Slovenia, Sweden
- Faroe Islands
- Norway
- Panama
- Taiwan
- United Kingdom
- United States (Alaska only at this time)
Can I trust these results?
Yes! This tool leverages our API which is updated frequently, though you are always welcome to search the relevant vessel registry on your own: in our internal testing DIY searches without Goldfish take 20-30 minutes per vessel.
Is my data secure?
Yes—Vessel Lookup is 100% confidential and anonymous; data is not stored or associated with any user.
