FFAs role in tuna data

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FFAs role in tuna data

• Inaugural Tuna Data Workshop
• SPC Headquarters, Noumea
• 23-27 October 2006
• Lara Manarangi-Trott

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FFAs Activities

• Databases
• Violations and Prosecutions Database
• Surveillance Database under development
• Regional Licensing System under consideration
• Access license fee information
• Vessel licensing information
• Regional Register

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Regional RegisterFleet composition
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FFA Vessel Monitoring System(FFA VMS)

• Housed at FFA Headquarters, Honiara, Solomon
  Islands
• It is a condition of good standing on the
  Regional Register that foreign fishing vessels
  licensed to operate in FFA members waters operate
  a Automatic Location Communicator (ALC) compliant
  with FFAs system
• FFA members have access to data relating to
  vessels in their waters their flag vessels
  operating in the region

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Observer

• Training (with SPC-OFP)
• National
• Subregional
• Regional
• Subregional program coordination
• US Treaty
• FSM Arrangement

Photos PNG Senior Observers
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Other data information

• Economic data and information
• Tuna market prices
• Value of catch by zone, by fleet, by gear
• Fisheries development-related information
• Comparing estimated impacts of various management
  options

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Regional Cooperative Surveillance and
EnforcementA form of data sharing

• FFA Data Sharing Agreements
• To share VMS data, surveillance information
• Niue Treaty Subsidiary Agreements
• Principle mechanism for cooperative surveillance
  and enforcement
• Currently bilaterally negotiated, a slow process

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Niue Treaty Subsidiary Agreements Status
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Regional Cooperative Surveillance and
EnforcementA form of data sharing

• FFA Data Sharing Agreements
• To share VMS data, surveillance information
• Niue Treaty Subsidiary Agreements
• Principle mechanism for cooperative surveillance
  and enforcement
• Currently bilaterally negotiated, a slow
  disharmonised process
• ? Harmonised Niue Treaty Subsidiary Agreement
• Facilitates planned or short-notice operational
  cooperation between any two signatories by formal
  contract

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Multilateral Surveillance and Law Enforcement
Operations
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E-Ops Room

• Access to all FFA members by secure website
• Systems for secure operational communications
• Development of a database to manage surveillance
  data
• Redevelopment of several existing FFA databases
• Development of a decision support engine to
  cross-correlate data from disparate data sources
  and
• Outputs via GIS, graphs and tables

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E-Ops Room
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FFA Vessel of Interest List

• Informal Gathering of Information by FFA
• Increasing contributions
• Need to review and remove
• Invited to share with IATTC and WCPFC

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Thank you

• Lara Manarangi-Trott
• WCPFC Liaison Officer
• Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency
• lara.manarangi-trott_at_ffa.int
• For further information see www.ffa.int