PescaDOLUS is a platform for bringing together leading international experts from different disciplinary backgrounds to exchange ideas, identify research questions and seek innovative inter-disciplinary solutions to fisheries crime. PescaDOLUS approaches ‘illegal fishing’ as a form of transnational criminal activity, and investigates the policing, legal and policy implications of using transnational criminal law and procedure to strengthen fisheries law enforcement. PescaDOLUS promotes fisheries crime research at relevant national, regional, and international fora towards informing law and policy reform in this sphere. These objectives are pursued with a particular emphasis on meeting the needs of developing nations and promoting north-south collaboration.