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Coral Triangle Initiative FAO-GEF Project REBYC II – CTI Strategies for Trawl Fisheries Bycatch Management. Petri Suuronen (FAO) Coral Triangle Fishers Forum, Indonesia, 15-17 June 2010. Why worry about bycatch ? Why REBYC II is needed?.
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Coral Triangle InitiativeFAO-GEF Project REBYC II – CTIStrategies for Trawl Fisheries Bycatch Management Petri Suuronen (FAO) Coral Triangle Fishers Forum, Indonesia, 15-17 June 2010
Why worry about bycatch? Why REBYC II is needed? • Bottom/shrimp trawl fisheries in high-biodiversity ecosystems produces large quantities of low value fish (bycatch): • ‘trash fish’ • increasinly juveniles • Growing concern thattrash fish catch is: • threatening sustainability of fisheries • affecting livelihoods and opportunities • decreasing food security
Purpose of REBYC II – CTI project • Improve trawl fisheries management and practices • minimise the catch of juveniles • minimise discards where such take place • avoid capture of protected species • avoid destructive impact on sensitive habitats • reduce overall footprint of fisheries on biodiversity • Evaluate costs and benefits • balance between environmental well-being and human well-being • win-win-win is the goal
How is this achieved? • The project will work directly with: • fishers (small scale and large scale) • fishing industry (processors, retailers) • other stakeholders • The project will engage the private sector to participate in developing and adopting best practices • The project will assist and facilitate a change and seek a regional consensus !
The project spans over: • - Coral Triangle area • - South China Sea
Challenges • How to reduce overcapacity and excess effort ? • a major driver in IUU (Illegal, Unregulated and Unreported fishing) • Trash fish increasingly important for livelihoods • aquaculture development a strong economic driver (high demand of feed) • how to create effective incentives for fishers to reduce trash fish? • how to increase resilience of coastal livelihoods (in face of conservation pressures) • The project has a limited budget cannot address all problems!
Potential solutions • cooperation on zonation and closed areas • self directed fishing effort controls • collaboration in improving fishing practices • alternative feeds for aquaculture • cooperation to improve legislation • We are all working towards the same goal • Strong collaboration with national, regional and global partners is needed!
Benefits to reduce trash fish and juveniles • Improvement of productive potential of fish stocks: • improved yields in the future • larger size of fish • larger economic gains • improved food security • positive public attitude • Reduction of the operational costs: • improved catch quality and value • less gear drag = reduced fuel cost • reduced sorting time of catch