NPFC 2025 High Seas Boarding and Inspection Overview

This document provides a summary of the high seas boarding activities in the NPFC Convention Area in 2025 and provides statistics on inspections and potential non-compliance encountered and presents data on historic trends since 2018.
Note that references to “violations” and “serious violations” are used throughout the document to denote potential non-compliance as it aligns with the language used in the online reporting system that identifies inspection outcomes as having No Violations, Violations, or Serious Violations.