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Update UK’s Action Plan on IUU Fishing

Update UK’s Action Plan on IUU Fishing. Tim Bostock Department for International Development Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. The Problem . $4-9 billion global losses $~1 billion loss from Sub-Saharan Africa. Undermines management Competes with legitimate business

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Update UK’s Action Plan on IUU Fishing

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  1. Update UK’s Action Plan on IUU Fishing Tim Bostock Department for International Development Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

  2. The Problem • $4-9 billion global losses • $~1 billion loss from Sub-Saharan Africa • Undermines management • Competes with legitimate business • Abuses labour and safety at sea • Low outlay and high return • Ready markets • Thrives where controls are weak or absent… …so no easy solutions!!

  3. www.dfid.gov.uk/news/files/illegal-fishing.asp More info….

  4. www.illegal-fishing.info

  5. Lead-up to the Action Plan…

  6. The UK Action Plan …describes a set of agreed actions that the UK will take, domestically and with key international partners, to advance specific proposals and facilitate their wider adoption and implementation.

  7. Rationale of measures • To enhance enforcement • increase risk of detection, exposure and successful prosecution • To decrease profitability • increase capital and operating costs

  8. Implement UK Action Plan March 2006 March 2008 International Fisheries Team Our commitments on IUU

  9. main components 1 RFMO Panel2 Enhanced MCS Network3 IUU monitoring network4 Global Fishing Vessel Information System5 Support to developing countries 6 Market mechanisms and exclusion 7 Consultation and dissemination

  10. 1 RFMO Panel • To develop a model RFMO standard based on best practice. • First panel meeting at Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) on 25/26 September • Commissioned studies Current main partners include:Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, WWF

  11. 2 Enhanced MCS Network • A functioning model for a strengthened MCS Network through provision of additional services to the Network members • Improved training and analysis • Dissemination services • Developing country relevance Current main partners include: US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK

  12. 3 IUU monitoring Network • Currently no single, global view on size, trends and distribution of IUU • Network of organisations and forum within which to create a periodic Global IUU Report. • Need to track development of IUU – quantify impact of measures International partnership

  13. 4 High Seas Vessel Information System • To establish open international database on global high seas fishing vessels, history and behaviour – to act as deterrent and improve enforcement Current main partners include: New Zealand, Australia, UK, UN Food and Agriculture Organization

  14. 5 Support to developing countries

  15. Africa and IUU Value losses = $1 billion per year Guinea $ 105m/yr Sierra Leone $ 68-97m/yr Liberia $ 12-34m/yr

  16. Africa Programme • Southern Africa: policy support on IUU through Namibia DFID • Sierra Leone: support with focus on fisheries management and tackling IUU DFID with World Bank, EC, AfDB

  17. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

  18. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey Sierra Leone IUU Summary of aerial survey • 45% vessels fishing in Inshore Exclusion Zone (35) • 50% vessels in IEZ bore no name or covered • 3 vessels bore no name outside IEZ • 51% vessels fishing were operating illegally • 3 vessels apparently fishing without a licence

  19. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

  20. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

  21. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

  22. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

  23. Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

  24. 6 Market mechanisms Options for excluding IUU fishing products from international markets and regulating investment sources- • Supply chain regulation • Domestic legislation • Investment regulation • DNA methods

  25. Market mechanisms Future work: • In-depth studies of exclusion options • Vulnerabilities of EU/UK markets to IUU imports • An industry / stakeholder forum…

  26. …Industry Forum Stakeholder forum to examine commercial pressure points and IUU product exclusion in UK/EU • Identifying IUU product • Building awareness • Proposing mechanisms for the domestic market • Supporting global measures to constrain IUU fishing.

  27. 7 Consultation and dissemination Workshop on Options for exclusion of IUU products from markets-Chatham House, 20 NovemberUpdate and Consultation for IUU stakeholders-Chatham House, 21 November Workshop on define the IUU Monitoring Network – to define economic and environmental impacts of IUU fishing -DFID, 22-23 November

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