UK

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Update UKs Action Plan on IUU Fishing
Tim Bostock Department for International
Development Department for Environment, Food and
Rural Affairs
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The Problem

• 4-9 billion global losses
• 1 billion loss from Sub-Saharan Africa

• Undermines management
• Competes with legitimate business
• Abuses labour and safety at sea
• Low outlay and high return
• Ready markets
• Thrives where controls are weak or absent
• so no easy solutions!!

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More info.
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• www.illegal-fishing.info

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Lead-up to the Action Plan
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The UK Action Plan

• describes a set of agreed actions that the UK
  will take, domestically and with key
  international partners, to advance specific
  proposals and facilitate their wider adoption and
  implementation.

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Rationale of measures

• To enhance enforcement
• increase risk of detection, exposure and
  successful prosecution
• To decrease profitability
• increase capital and operating costs

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Our commitments on IUU
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1 RFMO Panel 2 Enhanced MCS Network3
IUU monitoring network4 Global Fishing
Vessel Information System 5 Support to
developing countries 6 Market mechanisms
and exclusion 7 Consultation and
dissemination
main components
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1 RFMO Panel

• To develop a model RFMO standard based on best
  practice.
• First panel meeting at Chatham House (Royal
  Institute for International Affairs) on 25/26
  September
• Commissioned studies
• Current main partners includeCanada, New
  Zealand, Australia, UK, WWF

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2 Enhanced MCS Network

• A functioning model for a strengthened MCS
  Network through provision of additional services
  to the Network members
• Improved training and analysis
• Dissemination services
• Developing country relevance
• Current main partners include
• US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK

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3 IUU monitoring Network

• Currently no single, global view on size, trends
  and distribution of IUU
• Network of organisations and forum within which
  to create a periodic Global IUU Report.
• Need to track development of IUU quantify
  impact of measures
• International partnership

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4 High Seas Vessel Information System

• To establish open international database on
  global high seas fishing vessels, history and
  behaviour to act as deterrent and improve
  enforcement
• Current main partners include
• New Zealand, Australia, UK, UN Food and
  Agriculture Organization

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5 Support to developing countries
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Africa and IUU

• Value losses 1 billion per year
• Guinea 105m/yr
• Sierra Leone 68-97m/yr
• Liberia 12-34m/yr

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Africa Programme

• Southern Africa policy support on IUU through
  Namibia
• DFID

• Sierra Leone support with focus on fisheries
  management and tackling IUU
• DFID with World Bank, EC, AfDB

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Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey
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Sierra Leone IUU
Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey

• Summary of aerial survey
• 45 vessels fishing in Inshore Exclusion Zone
  (35)
• 50 vessels in IEZ bore no name or covered
• 3 vessels bore no name outside IEZ
• 51 vessels fishing were operating illegally
• 3 vessels apparently fishing without a licence

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Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey
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Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey
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Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey
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Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey
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Courtesy Kieran Kelleher 2002 Sierra Leone
aerial survey
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6 Market mechanisms

• Options for excluding IUU fishing products from
  international markets and regulating investment
  sources-

• Supply chain regulation
• Domestic legislation
• Investment regulation
• DNA methods

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Market mechanisms

• Future work
• In-depth studies of exclusion options
• Vulnerabilities of EU/UK markets to IUU imports
• An industry / stakeholder forum

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Industry Forum
Stakeholder forum to examine commercial pressure
points and IUU product exclusion in UK/EU

1. Identifying IUU product
2. Building awareness
3. Proposing mechanisms for the domestic market
4. Supporting global measures to constrain IUU
   fishing.

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Workshop on Options for exclusion of IUU products
from markets -Chatham House, 20 NovemberUpdate
and Consultation for IUU stakeholders -Chatham
House, 21 November Workshop on define the IUU
Monitoring Network to define economic and
environmental impacts of IUU fishing -DFID,
22-23 November
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