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By CeDePesca´s chairman, Eng. Ernesto Godelman

Seafood trade in Latin America and the ecolabelling as a tool for sustainability in the small scale sector. By CeDePesca´s chairman, Eng. Ernesto Godelman. Emerging Concerns of Fishing Communities: Issues of Labour, Trade, Gender, Disaster Preparedness, Biodiversity and Responsible Fisheries

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By CeDePesca´s chairman, Eng. Ernesto Godelman

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  1. Seafood trade in Latin America and the ecolabelling as a tool for sustainability in the small scale sector By CeDePesca´s chairman, Eng. Ernesto Godelman Emerging Concerns of Fishing Communities: Issues of Labour, Trade, Gender, Disaster Preparedness,Biodiversity and Responsible Fisheries 4 - 6 July 2006 SESC, Fortaleza, Brazil

  2. Fisheries production Seafood exports Non pelagics

  3. South America • Mainly supplier of seafood and fishmeal to global markets • Only the high social class is HV seafood consumer • Where it doesn’t happen, people consume mostly pelagic fish

  4. Seafood and fishmeal/oil exports/production

  5. Relationships exports/imports

  6. Pacific Side Fish meal fisheries (Chile, Peru and Ecuador) Atlantic side Fish meal fisheries Inexistent, except anchovy fishery in Uruguay Product in South America

  7. Seafood in Southern America • Mostly fisheries export oriented • Local consumer mostly in: • Peru (mackerel) • Ecuador (red crab, black conch), • Venezuela (sardine).

  8. Principal clients of Seafood in Southern America • USA • Spain (and some else European countries) • Japan • Korea • China

  9. Around 700 thousand artisanal fishermen A big problem for the artisanal fisheries in South America: the vicious circle. Worldwide population increase Seafood demand increase Depletion drive to more poverty Fish stocks doesn’t increase That process drive to depletion The seafood price increase Poverty encourage fishermen to look for short term solutions, going for more fish at sea

  10. Other troubles • Subsidies for fleet “modernization” • Fishing capacity transfer • Industrial Aquaculture • affect mangrove zones, bottoms in shallow waters, fresh water napes and biodiversity

  11. How to break the circle • By ensuring • Sustainability of resources and ecosystems • Fair distribution of incomes, which drive to • Food security (even if the food is not fish) • Social rights (education, health, housing, clothing, entertaining) • More and better participation (citizenship)

  12. Alliances with destiny markets consumers is needed to ensure sustainability of fisheries and livelihoods in LA • Principally in the EU, USA, Japan, Korea and China.

  13. How be working togetherconsumers and fishermen • Several different metodologies • Pocket cards (green – yellow – red fish) • Boycotts • Public awareness (legal size for instance) • Ecolabelling and Fair trade labelling

  14. FAO guidelines for ecolabelling • The Guidelines for the Ecolabelling of Fish and Fishery Products from Marine Capture Fisheries are of a voluntary nature. • They are applicable to ecolabelling schemes that are designed to certify and promote labels for products from well-managed marine capture fisheries and focus on issues related to the sustainable use of fisheries resources. • The guidelines refer to principles, general considerations, terms and definitions, minimum substantive requirements and criteria, and procedural and institutional aspects of ecolabelling of fish and fishery products from marine capture fisheries.

  15. What an ecolabel certify • Status of the stock • Impact on the ecosystem • Management system • Traceability Conditions: • Transparency • Independent certifier • Participation of every stakeholder

  16. The MSC ecolabel

  17. Certified Fisheries (18) Alaska Salmon (all species) – 320 380 MT New Zealand Hoki – 100 000 MT Alaska Pollock (BS/AI) – 1 500 000 MT Alaska Pollock (Gulf of Alaska) – 70 000 MT South African Hake – 195 000 MT Western Australia Rock Lobster – 10 500 MT Southwest Handline Mackerel – 1 750 MT Thames Herring – 121 MT Loch Torridon Nephrops – 150 MT Burry Inlet Cockles – 3 500 MT South Georgia Toothfish – 4 500 MT Mexican Baja California Spiny Lobster – 1 300 MT Hastings Fishing Fleet Dover sole – 72 MT Hastings Fishing Fleet pelagic – 10 MT BSAI Pacific Cod Freezer Longline – 17 500 MT (out of 116 000 MT) Pacific Halibut (Alaska, Oregon and Washington) – 26 775 MT Australian mackerel Icefish – 2 980 MT North Sea herring (PFTA) – 100 000 MT (out of 329 000 MT)

  18. Undergoing Certification (18) British Columbia Salmon – 9 000 MT California Chinook Salmon – 2 900 MT California Dungeness Crab Chilean Hake (Trawl) – 102 000 MT Lake Hjälmaren Pikeperch – 71 MT Lakes and Coorong fisheries, South Australia (domestic) Maryland Striped Bass – 1 300 MT North Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee Lobster – 469 MT North Eastern Sea Fisheries Committee Sea Bass – 7 MT Oregon Dungeness Crab – 4 672 MT Oregon pink shrimp – 1 230 MT British Columbia Halibut - 5 220 MT Alaska Sablefish – 20 900 MT Patagonian scallops – 6,000 MT (out of 42 000 Tons) Pacific Albacore Tuna (US) – 2 600 MT Norwegian arctic Saithe Norwegian north sea Saithe Flathead Flounder and Snow Crab fishery (Kyoto - Japan)

  19. MSC-labelled products as at May 2006

  20. Muito obrigado Muchas gracias Merci beacoup Thank you very much

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