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Fishery Overview ‐ Catches
2009 Provisional estimates• Total Catch – 2,467,903 mt (record, 6th in succession...)• Purse seine – 1,894,500 mt (77% of total WCPO catch ; record)• Longline – 223,792 mt (9% of total; stable )• Pole‐and‐line – 165,814 mt (7% of total WCPO; ↓)• Other – (7% of total)
Fishery Overview ‐ Catches
2009 Provisional estimates• SKJ : 1,789,979 mt (73% of total; ↑ record )• YFT : 433,788 mt (18% ; ↓ )• BET : 118,657 mt (5% ; ↓ ... lowest since 2003)
Fishery Overview – Purse seine fishery
• The number of vessels continues to increase to >250 in 2009, due to increases in distant water vessels.
Fishery Overview – Longlinecatch and effort
Longline fishery vessel numbersDeclining trend in domestic based non‐Pacific Island flagged vessels and in
Foreign (distant water and offshore) vessel numbers. PICT domestic vessel numbers steady.
Stock Status – Skipjack tuna• 2010 assessment• 3 region model ‐ (excludes area east of 150W)
• Catch by gear: PS (red), PL (green), other (yellow)
Stock Status – Yellowfin tuna• 2009 assessment• 6 region model (excludes area east of 150W)• Catch by gear– PS (green), LL (blue), IDPH (orange)
Yellowfin tunaStock status is:
No overfishing Not overfishedNOTE:Heavily fished in
western equatorial region.
Stock Status – Bigeye tuna• 2010 assessment• 6 region model (excludes area east of 150W)• Catch by gear –PS (green) & LL (blue), IDPH (orange)
Global Skipjack catches, [WCPFC ~70%]
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PNA CATCH BY SPECIES (tonnes)
Bigeye Yellowfin Skipjack
Skipjack
yellowfin
PARTIES TO THE NAURU AGREEMENT
Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation in the Management of Fisheries of Common Interest (Nauru Agreement ‐ 1982)
Established on the basis of Common Concerns/Interestsexploitation of common stocks of fish, both within
the EEZs and adjacent waters, by DWFNsdependence, as developing island states, on the
rational development and utilization of the living resources within the EEZs, in particular the common stocks of fish
co‐operation in the management of the 8 EEZs to achieve maximum benefits from the fisheries resources
PNA Measures
• VDS for purse seine skipjack fisheries• 3 months FAD closure + extended FAD closure for FFV
• High Seas Pockets closure + additional high seas closures in eastern Pacific
• 100% catch retention of tuna species• 100% observer coverage on purse seine vessels
• Prohibition of set on whale sharks• Introduction of minimum mesh size for purse seine nets
PNA Measures
• Introduction of longline Vessel Day Scheme• Consideration of purse seine sponsorship scheme to address purse seine vessel numbers
• MSC assessment of free school skipjack• Minimum 10% crewing by PNA nationals on all purse seine vessels from 1 Jan. 2012, increasing to 20% over 5 years
• Looking at Prohibition of bunkering at sea
Bikenibeu Declaration
Signed in Tarawa, Kiribati in 2009, By Fishery Ministersthe Bikenibeu Declaration set up the PNA Office to serve its members through strategic fisheries conservation and management, initiatives to maximize profitability and benefits for Pacific Islanders and promotion of PNA waters as a globally recognized, sustainably managed and certified tuna fishery.
Koror DeclarationSigned in Palau, in 2010, at the 1st PNA Presidential Summit on Tuna, the Koror Declaration:
• confirmed and supported the Vessel Day Scheme (whereby fishing is limited to a set number of fishing days)
• Closed off all high seas areas to fishing (latitude 10 degrees North and 20 degrees South)
• endorsed plans to proceed with the full assessment for Marine Stewardship Council certification of the PNA skipjack fishery as sustainable.
Species + catch method in PNAwhy free school ?
Species Freeswimming
schools
Free floating
FADsSkipjack
tuna59.8% 73.3%
Yellowfin tuna
33.6% 18.3%
Bigeye tuna 0.8% 6.9%
Unidentified tunas
5.3% 0.6%
Other species
0.4% 1.6%
TOTAL 100% 100%
Smaller sizes
The major problem !
Free school skipjack [dark blue] are larger than Phil‐indo [yellow] catch, Pole and
Line [red] and PNA FAD catch [light blue],
PNA strategy• PACIFICAL cv established January 2011 to provide a PNA marketing platform to vertically integrate PNA.
• Use of co‐branding gives significant market exposure at minimal cost.
• Working with private labels [~50% of EU market] means we can work with lower volumes and better premiums to suit PNA plants.
• Co branding gives the retailer maximum exposure to PNA and sustainable caught free school tuna,
• PACIFICAL offers PNA significant direct and indirect benefits.
What is MSC worth to the market• MSC certification is itself worth nothing unless used. The public generally won’t pay more if a choice.
• NGO and general public environmental awareness offers a premium for certified sustainability : MSC.
• Retailers increasingly keen to be seen as “green and socially aware” and ideally want to stock MSC if an option.
• MSC offers a “sustainability insurance” to brands and businesses. Thus the commitments globally.
• PNA should have first MSC skipjack globally.
What PACIFICAL offers• MSC offers just sustainability. It does not offer social accountability which brands also need.
• PACIFICAL offers both. MSC certified sustainability and Social accountability to highest global standards.
• PACIFICAL provides a platform to promote PNA.• PACIFICAL puts PNA tuna in the market place under private label co brand. MSC will ensure this.
• Co branding with private labels gives us scales, we can supply from PNA and limits opportunity for big brands to “kill” or exploit it. Example of Maldives.
PNA MINISTERS LAST WEEK CALL ON INTERNATIONAL COMMUNITY TO CELEBRATE
2 MAY EVERY YEAR FROM 2012 AS
WORLD TUNA DAY
• The Ministers are determined with an excellent opportunity for PNA to show global tuna leadership by celebrating WORLD TUNA DAY each year on MAY 02nd – bringing to the attention of all those over the globe enjoying the wonderful taste and health advantages of tuna ‐ will realize that we will need to start buying only tuna which is caught and processed in sustainable ways, so we as human race and our planet will be able to co‐exist together forever! If we as people all over the world celebrate and conserve together we will see tuna sustained and enjoyed for generations to come.