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Presentation for the Topic Group Change Management
6 May 2015ICES/FAO Working Group FTFB,
Lisbon
Arne Kinds,Kim Sys
VALDUVIS
A new way of assessing the sustainability of
fishing activities
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Background
• 83 vessels; 22 793 tons/year
• Multispecies groundfish fishery
• Target species: sole and plaice
• 80% beam trawl
• A small fishery with big problems…
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Background• Pressures
– Beam trawl is contested for its environmental impact
– High fuel prices since 2007-2008
– Low market prices
– Need to (re)gain market access
• ‘Sustainable Seafood Movement’
– Limited to ‘VISwijzer’ (Dutch seafood pocket guide)
– Criticized by fishers and PO for not taking into account
specifics of Belgian fleet
– VISwijzer fails to offer incentives and inform public
– Need to recognize efforts already taken (fleet + individuals)
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VISTRAJECT: commitment of the fishing sector to sustainability
• Covenant for the promotion of a sustainable Belgian fishery sector
• Integrated Sustainability Assessment (ISA) (Bohunovsky et al. 2010)
VALDUVIS to provide the toolbox for measuring and monitoring
sustainability
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The VALDUVIS project• Develop sustainability assessment tool to …
– … monitor individual fisher’s sustainability
– … monitor sustainability of the fleet
– … provide new market opportunities
• Equality of three pillars of sustainability
• How?
– By looking at individual fishing activity
– Trip-based assessments using electronic logbook data
– Detailed information a range of opportunities
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The VALDUVIS project
A simple model for stakeholder participation
Crucial in the development of the tool
(selection of themes and indicators, continuous feedback)
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Sustainability themes
Kinds et al. (2015), submitted
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Indicators
Kinds et al. (2015), submitted
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Indicators (continued)
Kinds et al. (2015), submitted
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How does it work?STEP 1: trip
dataSTEP 2:
calculationsSTEP 3:
visualization
Methodology for calculations is
described in fact sheets for each
indicator
Asset: uses existing data stream (verified
by member state authorities)
Scores are calculated ‘real-time’
Unit of assessment
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TROEF:
• Elke reder kan afzonderlijk worden beoordeeld en beloond voor zijn inspanningen
• Variatie in vistripparameters zorgt voor andere beoordeling van de duurzaamheid
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Output
Case study: beam trawler, inshore fishing vessel, <221 kW (average for 2013)
Reference point 14 indicators in 12
themes
Score between 0 (worst case) and 100 (best
practices)
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Opportunities
Personal sustainability monitoringlearning, discussions, directed actions
Monitoring fleet’s sustainability
time series, targets
New market opportunitiesinform buyers in fish auction fisheries improvement program (retail)reduce cost of third party sustainability
assessmentshort chain initiatives
New data set, new opportunities
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Work in progress…
• Apply tool in Belgian fishery
• Internal benchmarks and no value
judgment
• Broadening the scope
– Belgian European benchmarks
– Relation to MSC assessments?
• Update/improve/revise indicators (e.g.
bottom impact)
• Internationalization + interdisciplinary
team
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Change Management
Very important Important Not important
Trust in scientists has
improved
VISTRAJECT?
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Change Management• Belgian fishery: opportunities
– Have a look at how the neighbors are doing!
• Efforts?
– Improve understanding of each other’s interests and needs
– Knowledge exchange
– Towards emancipation and self-regulation
• Does ILVO have a role to play?
– Incentivizing sustainable fishing (e.g. VALDUVIS)
• Is VISTRAJECT the way forward?
• Can evolutionary change lead to fundamental
change?
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Change Management
• Next steps for ILVO
– Adopt approach suggested by Eayrs et al. (2014)
– Keep data series (perception, adoption rate, etc.)
– Pilot project: choice of fishers?
– Promote voluntary change (e.g. VALDUVIS)
– Work towards institutional change
• Project proposal: ‘After hours’ project Belgian fishery
• Personal interests/concerns
– Dr. Seth Macinko (URI)
– Must see: The ‘T’ in Fish
youtube.com/watch?v=VUzCcAFhqrs&spfreload=10
Thank you!
Kim [email protected]+32 59 56 98 54
Arne [email protected]+32 59 56 98 26
@VALDUVIS
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