Update UK’s Action Plan on IUU Fishing Tim Bostock Department for International Development Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs

 Undermines management  Competes with legitimate business  Abuses labour and safety at sea  Low outlay and high return  Ready markets  Thrives where controls are weak or absent… …so no easy solutions!!  $4-9 billion global losses  $~1 billion loss from Sub-Saharan Africa The Problem

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Lead-up to the Action Plan…

…describes a set of agreed actions that the UK will take, domestically and with key international partners, to advance specific proposals and facilitate their wider adoption and implementation. The UK Action Plan

Rationale of measures  To enhance enforcement  increase risk of detection, exposure and successful prosecution  To decrease profitability  increase capital and operating costs

March 2006 Implement UK Action Plan March 2008 Our commitments on IUU International Fisheries Team

1 RFMO Panel 2 Enhanced MCS Network 3 IUU monitoring network 4 Global Fishing Vessel Information System 5 Support to developing countries 6 Market mechanisms and exclusion 7 Consultation and dissemination main components

 To develop a model RFMO standard based on best practice.  First panel meeting at Chatham House (Royal Institute for International Affairs) on 25/26 September  Commissioned studies Current main partners include: Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK, WWF 1RFMO Panel

 A functioning model for a strengthened MCS Network through provision of additional services to the Network members  Improved training and analysis  Dissemination services  Developing country relevance Current main partners include: US, Canada, New Zealand, Australia, UK 2Enhanced MCS Network

 Currently no single, global view on size, trends and distribution of IUU  Network of organisations and forum within which to create a periodic Global IUU Report.  Need to track development of IUU – quantify impact of measures International partnership 3IUU monitoring Network

 To establish open international database on global high seas fishing vessels, history and behaviour – to act as deterrent and improve enforcement Current main partners include: New Zealand, Australia, UK, UN Food and Agriculture Organization 4High Seas Vessel Information System

5Support to developing countries

Africa and IUU Value losses = $1 billion per year Guinea $ 105m/yr Sierra Leone $ 68-97m/yr Liberia $ 12-34m/yr

 Southern Africa: policy support on IUU through Namibia DFID  Sierra Leone: support with focus on fisheries management and tackling IUU DFID with World Bank, EC, AfDB DFID with World Bank, EC, AfDB Africa Programme

Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

Sierra Leone IUU Summary of aerial survey 45% vessels fishing in Inshore Exclusion Zone (35) 50% vessels in IEZ bore no name or covered 3 vessels bore no name outside IEZ 51% vessels fishing were operating illegally 3 vessels apparently fishing without a licence Courtesy Kieran Kelleher; 2002 Sierra Leone aerial survey

6Market mechanisms  Supply chain regulation  Domestic legislation  Investment regulation  DNA methods Options for excluding IUU fishing products from international markets and regulating investment sources-

Market mechanisms Future work:  In-depth studies of exclusion options  Vulnerabilities of EU/UK markets to IUU imports  An industry / stakeholder forum…

1. Identifying IUU product 2. Building awareness 3. Proposing mechanisms for the domestic market 4. Supporting global measures to constrain IUU fishing. …Industry Forum Stakeholder forum to examine commercial pressure points and IUU product exclusion in UK/EU

Workshop on Options for exclusion of IUU products from markets -Chatham House, 20 November Update and Consultation for IUU stakeholders -Chatham House, 21 November Workshop on define the IUU Monitoring Network – to define economic and environmental impacts of IUU fishing -DFID, November 7 Consultation and dissemination