advancing decent work in fisheries
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Advancing Decent Work in FisheriesUNECE ToS on Sustainable FisheriesBrandt Wagner, Head, Transport and Maritime Unit, Sectoral Policies Department, ILO
4 February 2020
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Pillars of sustainability
Economic
Social
Environmental
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• Labour intensive• Hazardous occupations• Isolation, long periods at sea• Living and working on board• Share system, lack of written work
agreements• Long working hours, fatigue• Need for inter-ministerial
cooperation
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Child labourForced labourMigrant labour
theguardian.com
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• Declining resources, IUU fishing, fisheries crime, transnational crime
• Piracy• Abandonment
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Diversity of the sector
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Length of fishing vessel in metres
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Need for inter-ministerial cooperation
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Fundamental principles and rights at work (FPRW)
• Forced labour• Child labour• Discrimination• Freedom of association and collective bargaining
• 8 Conventions• Protocol of 2014 to Forced Labour
Convention
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Work in Fishing Convention, 2007 (No. 188)
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Objective of C.188:
Decent conditions of work on board fishing vessels:
• minimum requirements for work• conditions of service• accommodation and food• occupational safety and health protection,
medical care and social security
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• Minimum age• Medical fitness• Manning and hours of rest• Crew list• Fisher’s work agreement• Repatriation• Recruitment and placement• Payment of fishers• Accommodation and food• Medical care• Occupational safety and health and accident
protection• Social security• Protection in the case of work-related
sickness, injury or death
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Flag State control
• Exercise its jurisdiction and control over vessels that fly its flag• Effective system for inspection • Investigate complaints about conditions
Port State Control
• Inspect foreign vessels
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1st detention of a foreign vesselby South Africa - 2018
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Combatting Unacceptable Forms of Work in the Thai Fishing and Seafood Industry
Strengthen policyEnhance governmentImprove complianceSupport workers
Protocol of 2014 and C.188 ratified
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Strengthened Coordination to CombatLabour Exploitation and Traffickingin Fisheries in Southeast Asia – Sea Fisheries Project
• Multi-stakeholder regional coordination body
• Coordinate national and regional strategies and action plans
• Independent research
US funded
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FAO/IMO Ad Hoc Joint Working Group on IUU fishing and related matters
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