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Pierre Failler, Haoran Pan, Andy Thorpe, Martin Stecken, Villy Christensen and Sonja Teelucksingh

Explore the societal costs of fishing activities & policies in developing nations, with a focus on food security, equity, and overexploitation issues. The ECOST project aims to evaluate fishing policies and activities for better aquatic resource management.

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Pierre Failler, Haoran Pan, Andy Thorpe, Martin Stecken, Villy Christensen and Sonja Teelucksingh

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  1. Assessing Societal Costs and Benefits of Fisheries in Developing Countries: the ECOST project Pierre Failler, Haoran Pan, Andy Thorpe, Martin Stecken, Villy Christensen and Sonja Teelucksingh ISEE conference, Delhi, 15-19 December 2006

  2. Third countries Fisheries

  3. Quick look • Rising production but reach optimum in many countries • Rising trade: fish trade is now the major food product exported (more than other food products all together) Both from FAO FISHSTAT and FAOSTAT 2004

  4. Major concerns • Food security issues: less and less fish for local population (prices going up) • Equity and poverty issues: concentration of financial assets in a few hands (mainly traders) without wealth redistributione • Overexploitation issues: export species overexploited and ecosystems dammaged

  5. ECOST Presentation

  6. eCOSTContext • The project ECOST falls under: • the logic of the decision of Johannesburg to restore the marine ecosystems for 2015 through the establishment, by 2012, of networks of protected areas and • the philosophy of the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF) for a responsible fishery

  7. eCOSTMain Objective To develop a new approach for the evaluation of fishing activities and fishing policies in order to contribute to a better management of aquatic resources in the world

  8. eCOSTSpecific Objectives • 1-Development of far-reaching research into the capacity of traditional models to take into account the reality of ecological, economic and social effects using purely theoretical considerations, the experience of past application, and a questioning of the notion of value. • 2-The construction of an efficient model for societal cost. This model is based on the consilience between economics, sociology and ecology, and takes into account the variable nature of resources and marine environmental changes. • 3-Comparison of the societal costs of fishing activities. Comparative work carried out on three levels: firstly, work on the ecosystem showing the repercussions of the use of distinct techniques and practices; secondly, comparison of the ecosystems themselves in order to highlight the responses made by the ecosystems to anthropic pressure; and thirdly, a comparison of ecosystems that have free or regulated access and the ecosystems found within marine protected areas. • 4-Definition of options for public policy by the formulation of certain principles found within the framework of the CCRF for responsible fishing

  9. Societal costs The societal costs are all costs linked to fishing activities and fishery policies SC = Ecol C + Econ C + Soc C These may be ecological (alteration of the capacity of a system), economic (all costs linked to production, management, subsidies, and external factors) and social (the costs of poverty, social injustice, gender discrimination, food security and food safety).

  10. eCOST3 Eco-Regions

  11. ASIA Great Delta Ecosytem Perl River (China) Chao Phraya (Thailand) Mekong (Vietnam) The Vo Doi marine protected area

  12. Caribbean Coral Reef Ecosystem Jamaica Dominicana Republic Trinidad and Tobago The Parque Nacional des Este

  13. AFRICA Coastal Upwelling Ecosystem Senegal Guinea Bissau Guinea Conakry The Bolama and Bijagos marine protected area

  14. WORK organisation • 1 work-package on the definition of values (society, economics and ecological values) • 8 work-packages on modelling • 2 work-packages on the assessment of the public policies in each Eco-region • 1 work-package on Dissemination

  15. Societal costs modelling

  16. Ecopath and Ecosim NMFS, Bering Sea, GoAlaska Greenland Fisheries Inst. and there are also activities on the other side! Prince William Sound Faroe Fisheries Inst IMR, Bergen UBC DFO Swedish Fisheries Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania Four Fish. Commissions Poland UoWisconsin NOAA, Chesapeake Bay DIFRES, Charlottenlund Virginia IMS Trop. Tuna Comm. CEFAS, Lowestoft NCEAS Venice S Atlantic Fish.Comm. Thetis, Greece NMFS, Galveston Santander Mote lab NMFS, Honolulu La Paz, Mexico G.o Mexico Fish. Inst, Lisboa Azores F.I. FFRI, West Florida Six West African Countries Yucatan reefs Jamaica, BVI, … Colombia G.o.Guinea Trinidad Venezuela = training courses / workshops Charles Darwin Research Station, Galapagos Angola Namibia Abrolhos, Brazil Sao Paulo, Brazil Cape Town Tongoy Gulf, Chile Concepcion, Chile Argentina EwE project activities (Ecopath and Ecosim)

  17. Ecopath describes ecosystem resources, interactions and exploitation

  18. Mass balance: double-bookkeeping Other mortality Harvest Unassi- milated food Predation Harvest Respi- ration Respi- ration Predation Predation Unassi- milated food Other mortality Consumption Other mortality Unassi- milated food Predation Predation Respi- ration

  19. Economic and social model Service Processing Distribution Consumption Landing Distribution Consumption Consumption Fishing Discards Employment Population Functional income distribution Personal income distribution Labor, capital incomes Personal incomes

  20. An economicmodel to assess ecological, economic and social costs and benefits Costs Ecological changes Benefits Growth Capital Labour Capital Labour Stock CPUE table Distribution Processing Production Effort Price Price Price Use table Revenue Cost Revenue Cost Revenue Cost Surplus Surplus Surplus Service Capitalists’ income Labours’ income Capitalists’ income Labours’ income Capitalists’ income Labours’ income Costs Consumption Social changes Benefits

  21. Social cost (depletion) Social cost (disturbance) Social system Economic cost (correction) Economic cost (operation) Social benefit (consumption) Economic cost (depletion) Economic system Social benefit (improvement) Economic benefit (surplus) Ecological cost (degradation) Economic benefit (exploration) Ecological system Ecological benefit (restoration) Ecological benefit (protection or management)

  22. Conclusion and follow up

  23. ECOST will contribute • To show the cost (private and public versus private and public benefits) of fishing practives and fishery policies in 3 major ecosystems in the world • contribute to the ongoing assessment of the Johannesburg Plan of Implementation (JPoI) • To discuss its major constraints and opportunities, and to present some further avenues and practical ways to ensure the attainment of the agreed targets • To increase the level of (shared) information available to all policy makers, stakeholders and researchers • Follow-up: major concerted action called OCEAN15 coming up in 2007

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