CFCA and Dalhousie University Deliver Specialist Financial Crime Training to Fisheries and Oceans Canada
The Canadian Financial Crime Academy is proud to celebrate the delivery of specialist fisheries and oceans financial crime training in partnership with Dalhousie University.
This important program reflects a growing recognition that financial crime is not limited to traditional banking, fraud, or corporate misconduct. Financial crime can also be deeply connected to environmental harm, illegal fishing, wildlife trafficking, vessel ownership structures, trade-based crime, corruption, sanctions exposure, and the movement of illicit proceeds through legitimate markets.
Fisheries and oceans enforcement increasingly requires professionals to look beyond the immediate offence and consider the financial systems, corporate structures, and commercial incentives that enable illegal activity. A vessel, landing record, export transaction, shell company, or beneficial ownership trail may all form part of a broader financial crime picture. Understanding these links is essential for modern investigators, regulators, analysts, and compliance professionals working in fisheries, oceans, wildlife, customs, border, and environmental enforcement.
Through the CFCA’s partnership with Dalhousie University, this training brings together applied financial crime expertise and university-recognized professional education. The program is designed to support learners in understanding how financial crime concepts can be applied to fisheries and oceans contexts, including proceeds of crime, suspicious financial activity, ownership concealment, trade documentation, corruption risks, and investigative decision-making.
This collaboration also highlights the importance of interdisciplinary training. Fisheries and oceans financial crime sits at the intersection of environmental protection, economic crime, public sector enforcement, international trade, organized crime, and regulatory compliance. Professionals working in this area need practical tools, sector-specific knowledge, and the ability to connect operational violations to financial benefit and criminal enterprise.
The CFCA is pleased to support this emerging area of professional education and to contribute to the development of specialized training for those working to detect, investigate, and disrupt financial crime connected to fisheries and oceans activity.
The course is now available to the general public through Dalhousie University Continuing Education.