Benvenuti Bellagio: Day One

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Benvenuti!Bellagio Day One

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Agenda 20 February

• Preliminaries (computers, meals, transfers on 25
  Feb, lake trip, Thursday dinner, etc.)
• Introductions
• The Meeting (agenda, Chair break-out sessions,
  vision (the Blueprint, etc.)
• Pisces Forum (membership, possible initiatives)
• Background review of papers and issues (Ray,
  Quentin Meryl)

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Dietz et al.

• Emphasize the importance of governance in
  managing the commons in a complex world.
• Governance needs to adaptive and should
• Provide information
• Deal with conflicts
• Induce rule compliance
• Provide infrastructure
• Prepare for change

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Da Silva Kitts

• Potential benefits of decentralization in NE US.
• Benefits of local solutions and adaptations given
  complexities of management and fisheries.

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Mace

• Stresses lack of national policies and
  institutional failures have been more limiting
  than science
• List five key inadequacies
• Inadequate science
• Inadequate management goals
• Inadequate data statistics
• Inadequate institutions
• Inadequate national policies

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Sanchirico Wilen

• Current world fish exploitation of 90-95 million
  mt but coulkd be higher (may be 100-105) with
  stock recoveries.
• Total world revenues in capture fisheries
  (approx. 70 billion) could be doubled with
  appropriate governance and rents could go from
  negative to as much as 90 billion.

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Governance A Review

• Approaches Issues
• Precautionary Principle
• Reference points
• Targets versus Instruments
• Incentives
• Ecosystem Approach

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Precautionary Principle

• A duty of care often implemented via biological
  target and limit/precautionary reference points.
• Failures to prevent risk-prone decisions even
  with lip service paid to precautionary principle.

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Reference points

• Rules to avoid acute unsustainability
• Cost of caution
• Multiple reference points and updating
• Need for careful judgement and discretion
• BMSY versus BMEY
• Discretion in stock building
• Stakeholder involvement

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Targets versus instruments

• Problem lies in instruments to achieve targets,
  rather than targets per se.
• Command and control versus incentives
• Instruments need right targets (TAC setting)

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Incentives

• Failures of command and control (effort creep,
  complex governance, TAC setting)
• Incentives (individual community harvest
  spatial) often focus on target fisheries have
  been helpful with collective action, shared
  management costs, overcapacity, subsidies, etc.
• Need for incentives for public goods (ecological
  services) and effective oversight.

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Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries

• best practice of managing diverse objectives
  under uncertainty within ecological boundaries
• Problems of implementation given complexity
• EAF offers few new insights on principal causes
  of unsustainability inappropriate fisher
  incentives

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Governance A Way Forward?

• Benchmarking for Fisheries Governance
• Accountability, authority responsibility
• Transparency
• Incentives
• Risk assessment management
• Adaptability

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• Northern Prawn South-east Scalefish
  Shark
• Accountability
• explicit rules of the game v v
• independent report cards P P-
• full operational accountability P P
• stakeholder involvement in decision making v
  v
• fishery performance indicators v v
• economic performance indicators P P
• ecosystem performance indicators P- X
• Transparency
• non-confidential data easily accessible P P
• open decision-making process v v
• open and systematic process for evaluation X X
• Incentives
• secure and durable fishing rights P v
• effective monitoring and enforcement P P
• competitive market for fishing rights P P
• incentives to avoid bycatch/ habitat damage P P
• Risk Assessment and Management

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Closing Remarks

• Principal cause of poor fisheries outcomes is
  poor and ineffective fisheries governance.
• Improved governance (a process) must encompass
  many issues and principally
• authority and responsibility,
• transparency,
• incentives,
• risk assessment management,
• adaptability