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Oceanic Fisheries Programme Pacific Community

DFAT Harvest Strategy project 10 th Heads of Fisheries meeting 14-17 th March 2017. Oceanic Fisheries Programme Pacific Community. Contents. Background What are harvest strategies? Aims of the project Project structure. Background.

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Oceanic Fisheries Programme Pacific Community

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  1. DFAT Harvest Strategy project 10th Heads of Fisheries meeting 14-17th March 2017 Oceanic Fisheries Programme Pacific Community

  2. Contents Background What are harvest strategies? Aims of the project Project structure

  3. Background • Key driver: Regional Roadmap for Sustainable Pacific Fisheries, and associated Report Cards • Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC) 12th meeting: agreed a work plan to develop ‘harvest strategies’ for key stocks and fisheries • Marine Stewardship Council certifications • E.g. PNA free school • South Pacific albacore longline

  4. What are Harvest Strategies? Elements of a Harvest Strategy LRP TRP Effort/Catch Biomass • Management Objectives • What do you want from your fishery? • Reference Points and Risk Levels • Where do you want to be? (targets) • Where do you NOT want to be? (limits) • How much do you not want to be there? (risk) • Harvest Control Rules • Management Strategy Evaluation • Testing the HCRs and choosing the “best” • Monitoring Strategy • Is the HCR performing as you would expect?

  5. Target reference points (where you want to be) What are Harvest Strategies? NOT just science! Member driven exercise Multispecies considerations Management Objectives Performance Measures Limit reference points (where not to go) (How are we doing?)

  6. Approach • Need to ‘test’ alternative harvest strategies • In particular ‘harvest control rules’ • Do rules achieve objectives of managers/stakeholders? • Are they ‘robust to uncertainty’? • What are the trade-offs between different HCRs? • Do this through ‘simulation testing’ • Requires a modelling framework to do this • = Management Strategy Evaluation (MSE)

  7. Aims of the project Still to receive final approval from NZ Provide support to SPC and FFA to enhance science and member capacity for harvest strategy development Also engage fishing nations in the process, through WCPFC

  8. Pacific tuna stocks harvested within Increased value to Pacific Island LONG - TERM sustainable limits countries from Pacific tuna fisheries OUTCOMES MEDIUM - Improved regional management of oceanic tuna stocks TERM OUTCOME Tools and capacity to enable informed decision making on management procedures SHORT - TERM OUTCOME 5. Monitoring strategy framework 3. Candidate harvest control rules identified 4. Modelling framework for MSE developed TECHNICAL OUTPUTS 2.1 2.2 ENABLING Engagement with SPC/FFA/PNA members OUTPUTS 1. Stakeholder engagement strategy Engagement with other WCPFC members

  9. Main points • Staged approach – allow SPC/FFA members to develop harvest strategies that meet objectives • Iterative approach to development • Secondly, take those options to WCPFC to achieve Commission-wide engagement and adoption • Plan: initial focus on skipjack and SP albacore

  10. Output 1 • Stakeholder engagement strategy • Primarily members but also wider stakeholders. • Develop tailored information resources to facilitate information uptake

  11. Outputs 2 • Engagement and capacity development with SPC/FFA/PNAO members • enhancing capacity and applying the outputs in decision-making on harvest strategy arrangements • Subsequently engage other Parties • Bring other CCMs and stakeholders up to a level where they can participate in the final decision making processes, such as agreement of compatible measures between high seas and EEZs

  12. Outputs 3 -4 • Technical development: • Output 3: candidate harvest control rules designed for inclusion in the modelling framework • Output 4: Modelling framework developed (computer simulation approach).

  13. Output 5 • Monitoring strategy framework: • Framework to identify whether things are going to plan – in the real world

  14. Support focus • Three key technical positions at SPC • 2 modellers • 1 ‘advisor’ – focussed on engagement strategy • Support for FFA fishery advisor engagement

  15. Time Scale : 5 yr project Start date : April 2017?

  16. Pacific tuna stocks harvested within Increased value to Pacific Island LONG - TERM sustainable limits countries from Pacific tuna fisheries OUTCOMES MEDIUM - Improved regional management of oceanic tuna stocks TERM OUTCOME Tools and capacity to enable informed decision making on management procedures SHORT - TERM OUTCOME 5. Monitoring strategy framework 3. Candidate harvest control rules identified 4. Modelling framework for MSE developed TECHNICAL OUTPUTS 2.1 2.2 ENABLING Engagement with SPC/FFA/PNA members OUTPUTS 1. Stakeholder engagement strategy Engagement with other WCPFC members

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