COAST GUARD Fisheries Enforcement REPORT

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COAST GUARD Fisheries Enforcement REPORT
Pacific States Marine Fisheries Commission
58th Annual
Meeting
Girdwood, Alaska
21-24 August 2005
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Presentation Overview

• OCEAN GUARDIAN USCG Fisheries Enforcement
  Strategic Plan
• Fisheries Enforcement Results
• 2005 North Pacific High Seas Effort
• Commercial F/V Safety
• Conclusions

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Updated Strategic Plan

• Promulgated in September 2004
• Priorities
• Protect the EEZ
• Domestic fisheries
• Intl Agreements
• Strategic Framework
• Sound regulations
• Effective presence
• Productive partnerships
• Application of technology

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Fisheries Enforcement Results
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District Thirteen
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District One
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EEZ Enforcement Results
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International Component
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Western Central Pacific
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North Pacific HSDN Enforcement

• NPAFC Convention
• U.N. Moratorium

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UN MORATORIUM ON HIGH SEAS DRIFTNETS
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2005 HIGH SEAS DRIFTNET ENFORCEMENT OPERATIONS
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2005 High Seas Driftnet Enforcement

• April 2005 Training of 15 Chinese fisheries
  enforcement officers at the USCG Fisheries
  Training Center in Kodiak.
• USCG/NOAA/Industry Partnership
• USCG North Pacific operations
• Shipriders (China, S. Korea)
• Canadian maritime patrol aircraft
• Operations with PRC patrol craft
• Operations with NE Russian Boarder Guard patrol
  craft
• Information sharing with Japanese
• Industry Partnerships
• WFOA and AAFA

USCGC JARVISand PRC Fisheries Law Enforcement
Command (FLEC) vessel (2005)
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JARVIS - PRC ENGAGEMENT
July 2005
During five days (14 -18 July) of Joint
Operations USCGC JARVIS and PRC FLEC vessel ZHONG
GUO YU ZHENG 202 (PC 202) covered over 500 NM.
JARVIS and PC 202 queried vessels and maximized
radar coverage of the high threat area for
Illegal, Unregulated and Undocumented (IUU)
fishing vessels operating in the Pacific Ocean.
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KODIAK 1900NM
SHEMYA 800NM
TOKYO 1400NM
HONOLULU 2300NM
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HSDN float and radio transponder
Sperm whale entangled in high seas driftnet.
Crew from CGC JARVIS frees whale
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SAFETY

• USCG CFVS Examiner conducting a voluntary
  dockside inspection

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Fisheries Compliance

• Ingredients for compliance
• Enforceable regulations
• Effective presence
• Technology
• Partnerships
• What the YOU can do
• Simple and understandable regulations
• Expand use of NOAA VMS program
• End derby fisheries
• Breed voluntary compliance
• Emphasize the benefit of USCG safety
  inspections

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21st Century Maritime Challenges
Impact Studies predict an increase in the
nations reliance on the Coast Guard.
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System Solution Assets
High Altitude UAV Global Hawk
Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) EADS CASA CN
235-300M
Maritime Patrol Aircraft (MPA) HC-130
VTOL UAV (VUAV) Bell HV-911 Eagle Eye
VTOL Recovery and Surveillance Aircraft (VRS)
Multi-Mission Cutter Helicopter
Maritime Security Cutter Medium (WMSM)
Maritime Security Cutter Large (WMSL)
Maritime Patrol Coastal (WPC)
Long Range Interceptor
Modified 123 Patrol Boat
Short Range Prosecutor
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Deepwater Project

• National Security Cutter
• Fabrication began Sept 2004
• Keel laid 29 March 2005

• Launch scheduled Spring 2006
• Delivery scheduled Spring 2007
• Mrs. Meryl Chertoff (Ship Sponsor) ADM Collins
  signing keel plate.

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National Security Cutter
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Deepwater Project

• Patrol Boat Upgrades
• 110 patrol boats 123 patrol boats
• 5 patrol boats complete
• 3 undergoing upgrade to be complete this year
• The next 4 hulls are on hold for conversion.

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Deepwater Project

Projected delivery of the first OPC in 2009,
three years ahead of original schedule.
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Conclusion

• USCG and Fisheries Enforcement
• The USCG has a strong commitment to the
  fisheries mission
• We have a strong relationship with NOAA
  Enforcement
• Boarding numbers are up and continue to rise
• We are catching more significantviolations
• We are monitoring the fringes of the EEZ
  leading an international effort to patrol the
  high seas against IUU Fishing.
• We need your help in creating plans that are
  enforceable, have teeth, emphasize CFVS
  programs.

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