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Merete TandstadFAO Fisheries and Aquaculture
DepartmentRome, Italy
FAO in the framework of Integrated Regional Ocean Policy
CCPS CPPS Workshop on Integrated Regional Oceanic PolicyBogota, Colombia, 28 to 30 October, 2015
Outline
1. FAO’s Fishery and Aquaculture Department and the importance of Fish and Fisheries
2. Fisheries instruments and processes
3. The Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries- EAF
4. Fisheries Management and Regional Fishery Bodies
5. Concluding remarks
FAO’s Fishery and Aquaculture Department and the importance of Fish and Fisheries
FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department
Vision: A world in which responsible and sustainable use of fisheries and aquaculture resources makes an appreciable contribution to human well-being, food security and poverty alleviation.
Mission: To strengthen global governance and the managerial and technical capacities of members and to lead consensus-building towards improved conservation and utilization of aquatic resources.
FISH AS FOOD Important source of animal
protein Fish provides significant
micro-nutrients, minerals, and essential fatty acids
A critical safety net for vulnerable households
Socio economic importance of fish and seafood
Fish is among the most traded food commodities worldwide- worth almost US$130 mill (2012)
Developing economies account for approximately 54% world exports by value
People involved in fisheries and aquaculture: 58.3 mill (2012)
Account for 10-12% livelihoods world population
Fishery is the last major food-producing sector directly harvesting natural resources
The fishery sector is dependent on healthy aquatic ecosystems
Fisheries Instruments and Processes
Binding Legal Instruments
The 1995 United Nations Fish Stocks Agreement
The 1993 FAO Compliance Agreement
2009 FAO Agreement on Port State Measures
CBD, CITES, CMS..
UNCLOS
Non-binding instrumentsCODE OF CONDUCT FOR RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES
International Plan’s of Action IPOAs
Seabirds Sharks IUU Fishing
FAO InternationalGuidelines
Capacity
FAO Technical Guidelines
UNGA resolutions, CBD guidelines, etc.
Fisheries Management and the Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries
Fisheries Management
The integrated process of information gathering, analysis, planning, consultation, decision-making, allocation of resources and formulation and implementation, with enforcement as necessary, of regulations or rules which govern fisheries activities in order to ensure the continued productivity of the resources and the accomplishment
of other fishery objectives
WHAT IS EAF?
The main purpose of the EAF is to plan, develop and manage fisheries in a manner that addresses the multiple needs and desires of societies, without jeopardizing the options for future generations to benefit from the full range of goods and services provided by marine ecosystems.
Key features of the EAF principles in practice
Apply the precautionary approach
Use best available knowledge
Acknowledge multiple objectives and values of ecosystem services
Embrace adaptive management
Broaden stakeholder participation
Understand and use full suite of management measures
Promote sectoral integration and interdisciplinarity
The three pillars of EAF
Fishery
Ability to Achieve
Retained
Non Retained
GeneralEcosystem
Community
National
Governance
External drivers
EcologicalWellbeing
Human Wellbeing
Types of Issues
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MANAGE - These come under your direct legislative responsibility. You can generate regulations/management plans etc to deal with these issues. The agency must take full responsibility for these issues
INFLUENCE - These issues are not under your legislative responsibility so you cannot manage them, but as they are under other legislative responsibility (e.g. another agency) you can influence them
REACT TO - These issues are generated by external environment - you cannot manage or influence them. You need to be ready to deal with these issues (e.g. natural changes in the oceanography, changes in currency exchange, market prices, fuel prices) as much as possible
EAF as a sectoral approach
Harmonizes the fishery sector policy with national/regional sustainability goals and intentions
Implements the above policies in fisheries
Makes sure required links are made with other sectors, where relevant
Examples: EAF, EBFM
(e.g.EBM,, LMEs, and others)
• Develops integrated plans for a given region/ecosystem
• Sets common conservation and development objectives
Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries and to Aquaculture
Ecosystem Approach to Tourism
Ecosystem Approach to energy and oil
OTHERS • Each sector is managed in a way that is consistent with overall principles and broad objectives set for the given region
SectoralMulti-(cross-)sectoral
Fisheries Management and Regional Fishery Bodies
Regional Fishery Bodies
RFBs - Regional Fishery Bodies (RFBs) are a mechanism through which States or organizations that are parties to an international fishery agreement or ("agreement" is fundamental, and different from arrangement) arrangement work together towards the conservation, management and/or development of fisheries.– Some RFBs have an advisory mandate, and provide advice,
decisions or coordinating mechanisms that are not binding on their members.
– RFMOs – These are RFBs have a management mandate. They adopt fisheries conservation and management measures that are binding on their members.
RFMOs
Deep-sea RFMOs and Arrangements
Specific Species RFMOs and Arrangements
Advisory RFBs
Advisory RFBs and Arrangements
FAO Article VI & XIV Bodies
Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs)
Commission
Scientific committee
Secretariat
RFMO Competence
Area
Conservation and
management measures
Compliance committee
FAO and RFBs FAO has committed to:
– provide its technical and administrative support to its own RFB to strengthening their effectiveness
– promote collaboration and consultation among all RFB or arrangements on matters of common concern
Through:– facilitating meetings of RFB; implementation by RFBs of sustainable
policies and practices and the effective implementation of the post-UNCED instruments (including cooperation between RFB and FAO programmes) issues relating to reporting on status and trends of fisheries, reporting to, and liaising with, the United Nations and other international and regional organizations regarding collecting and disseminating information
•FAO is also involved in the process of establishing new RFB
Concluding remarks
FAO promotes the implementation of good governance, collaboration and sustainable management and use at different levels:– Development of global normative and policy guidance
– Support integration and implementation of global normative and policy documents into national and regional processes including capacity building
– Promote holistic, integrative and participatory approaches and processes (e.g. EAF)
– Support mandated organizations such as RFBs to adopt, integrate and implement best practice approaches and measures including global normative and policy frameworks
– Provides global neutral forum and facilitate discussion between countries and relevant stakeholders and between fisheries and other sectors at different scales on cross cutting issues