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MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF AN OVER-EXPLOITED FISHERY RESOURCE

MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF AN OVER-EXPLOITED FISHERY RESOURCE. THE CCSBT EXPERIENCE. CCSBT Position - 2007. the fishery is badly depleted spawning stock biomass is most likely at around 10% of its pristine level and in a very vulnerable situation

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MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF AN OVER-EXPLOITED FISHERY RESOURCE

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  1. MANAGEMENT AND CONSERVATION OF AN OVER-EXPLOITED FISHERY RESOURCE THE CCSBT EXPERIENCE

  2. CCSBT Position - 2007 • the fishery is badly depleted • spawning stock biomass is most likely at around 10% of its pristine level and in a very vulnerable situation • its management measures have not been effective in controlling the catch • there is very little reliable data on which to make stock assessments to support management decisions • a sum, by my estimate, exceeding $5 million has been spent on developing a management procedure, which is now moribund because of data problems • its management plan to restore the spawning stock biomass to the 1980 level by 2020 is unattainable • management solutions to these problems will be expensive and difficult for the CCSBT and its history would not give confidence that its structure and membership will be up to the task

  3. SBT Range

  4. Reported SBT Global Catches: 1950 – 2005

  5. CCSBT Position - 2001 • a competent legal structure • almost 90% of the reported catch was from members or cooperating non-members with the remaining 10% of the catch being competently monitored • a single fish species • a small number participants operating industrial fleets with well developed domestic fisheries management arrangements • strong and independent scientific support available • a central database managed by the CCSBT Secretariat • catch being reported to CCSBT settings • an effective trade document system/vessel register to regulate trade • Agreement to a management procedure to set TAC • a monopsonist buyer of SBT (Japan), which was a member, effectively militating against erosion of the effectiveness of CCSBT measures

  6. SBT Global Catches: 1986 – 2005 .

  7. Impact of Unreported Catch on CCSBT Data

  8. RFMOs – Inherent Structural Problems • member behaviour in placing national interests before good international governance • consensus decision making, which leads to lowest common denominator outcomes • the disconnect between the need for day-to-day management of a fishery and the use of a vehicle structured on diplomatic negotiation principles, which meets once a year • unwillingness to meet the resource costs of managing the fishery internationally • the propensity for decision making to always lag well behind the circumstances in the fishery until crisis emerges

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