PILLAR 2

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PILLAR 2 MANAGING OUR FISHING OPPORTUNITIES TO
MAXIMISE PROFITABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY
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PILLAR 2 Managing our Fishing Opportunities to
Maximise Profitability and Sustainability
EU MANAGEMENT REGULATIONS (CFP)
Change is Possible Now
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MANAGING OUR FISHING OPPORTUNITIES TO MAXIMISE
PROFITABILITY AND SUSTAINABILITY

• 3 key themes
• Change is Possible Now
• Flexible and Transparent Fisheries Management
  Across the UK
• Improving Quota and Effort management

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Change is Possible Now

• Fishing opportunities defined and constrained
  through the CFP. But doesnt mean that all
  change has to wait for new policy and new
  regulation.
• Looking for all the flexibility we can find in
  current arrangements to break the mould of the
  failing CFP.
• Scotland and its fishermen have taken risks to
  develop catch quotas and fully documented
  fisheries.
• We accept the challenge of working together to
  radically reduce discards and fishing mortality
  But certain we can achieve it without CRPs crude
  and draconian effort cuts. Not least time at Sea
  Not Fishing being the count.

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Flexible and Transparent Fisheries Management
Across the UK

• Wish to work constructively and creatively with
  the new UK coalition Govt to agree clearer and
  more flexible settlement of functions across all
  UK Administrations.
• It is not a bad thing but over time the fleets
  have developed quite differently.
• Current arrangements are essentially a hangover
  from pre-devolution when Fisheries Ministers were
  part of one administration.
• SG favours a new position that allows
  Administrations to respond positively to
  different priorities, whilst maintaining the
  legal obligation that each Govt fulfils its role
  in ensuring the UK meets its International
  obligations.
• This approach is not about preventing businesses
  from evolving and moving operations around the
  UK. But, about giving the ability to manage
  fisheries in the way that makes sense for them.

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Improving Quota and Effort management

• POs have a central role to play in Scotland's
  fishing communities, a thorough review is
  overdue, and, we should look to the future in
  terms of how they might play an even more
  important role.
• Marine Scotland has recently commenced that
  process of consultation to develop an agenda for
  reform.
• In year cuts in effort allocations and changes to
  rules cause disruption and uncertainty. We want
  to get away from that, allocate to those that
  need it, reducing costs and allow skippers to
  have confidence in their allocations.

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Conclusions

• The Scottish Government should seek support from
  the UK and from other EU Member States for the
  further development and expansion of the catch
  quota approach in 2011, potentially to include
  more species and to increase the amount of
  discards that may be landed rather than dumped at
  sea.
• The Scottish Government should seek the support
  of the UK, other EU Member States and the
  European Commission to make common sense changes
  to the way that time at sea is monitored and
  controlled
• The Scottish Government should drive discussions
  with other Fisheries Administrations and agree
  reforms that offer fishermen clarity and the
  different parts of the UK greater scope to
  develop management arrangements appropriate to
  their circumstances .
• The Scottish Government and fishing stakeholders
  should build on the model of the Conservation
  Credits Steering Group (CCSG) in managing fishing
  opportunities. The CCSG has grappled with issues
  of great difficulty and controversy, but is
  considered by many observers and interested
  parties across Europe as providing a model for
  partnership approaches in the management of
  sustainable fisheries. We endorse that view .
• The Scottish Government and industry should
  progress in partnership improvements to sectoral
  management led by POs

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Key points for SFC

• Does the SFC agree with these conclusions?