The Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF)

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The Code of Conduct for Responsible
Fisheries(CCRF)

• Fisheries Department
• FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION
• OF THE UNITED NATIONS

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Scope of presentation - for Session V. - GEF IW
Conference Overview of CCRF implementation
efforts

• World fisheries context (facts/issues)
• The Code of Conduct (CCRF)
• CCRF - Implementation
• Outlook - suggestion
• Barg, FAO

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World Fisheries

• For human consumption fish 18 of all animal
  protein consumed
• World trade of fish more than US 50
  billion/year half by developing countries more
  important than tea, coffee
• Total production 117 million tonnes (mt)
• capture fisheries 86 mt 74
• (marine 67 inland 7)
• aquaculture 31 mt 26
• for human consumption 79 (rest reduced)

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World Fisheries Major Issues

• Contribution to food security
• food supply and human nutrition
• Poverty alleviation and rural development
• livelihoods of small scale fishing farming
  communities
• Sustainable development
• conservation and management of resources

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World Fisheries Major Issues

• Over-fishing excess capacity of fishing
  effort
• Environmental effects of fishing habitat
  degradation
• By-catch, discards
• Environmental impacts (pollution, habitat
  degradation) ON fishery resources
• inland waters, also coastal waters

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The Code of Conduct for Responsible
Fisheries(FAO, 1995)
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The CCRF Its Origins

• FAO Committee of Fisheries meeting 1991 call
  for more responsible practice, better management
• 1992 Cancún Conference on Responsible Fishing
  called on FAO to prepare a Code of Conduct
• Technical Consultations 1992-1995 lead to
  adoption of CCRF by FAO Conference Member
  Governments

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The CCRF Its Goals

• sustainable benefits from fisheries in terms of
  food, employment, trade and economic well-being
  for people throughout the world

provides principles and standards applicable to
the conservation, management and development of
all fisheries
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The CCRF Its Structure

• Articles of the Code
• Art. 1 Nature and scope
• Art. 2 Objectives of the Code
• Art. 3 Relationship with other International
  Instruments
• Art. 4 Implementation, Monitoring and Updating
• Art. 5 Special Requirements of Developing
  Countries
• Art. 6 General Principles

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The CCRF Its Structure

• Articles of the Code
• Art. 7 Fisheries management
• Art. 8 Fishing Operations
• Art. 9 Aquaculture Development
• Art. 10 Integration of Fisheries into Coastal
  Area Management
• Art. 11 Post-Harvest Practices and Trade
• Art. 12 Fisheries Research

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CCRF Actors

• All members and non-members of FAO,
• Fishing entities, sub-regional, regional and
  global organisations, governmental or
  non-governmental,
• and
• All other interested stakeholders concerned with
  fisheries resources and fish trade

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CCRF Implementation

• FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible
  Fisheries

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CCRF Implementation

• Numerous initiatives at national levels
• awareness raising, better practice, planning,
  legislation,
• Monitoring, reporting and discussions
• FAO Committee of Fisheries (COFI)
• Regional Fishery Organisations / Fishery
  Commissions

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CCRF Implementation issues

• Building institutional capacity
• Coping with social stress and costs
• Finding optimal transition pathways
• Selecting optimal mix of measures
• Mobilising participation
• Protecting small-scale fisheries
• Capacity building training human resource
  development
• Insufficient technical assistance and financial
  resources

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CCRF Implementation

• FAO support to Technical Policy consultations
  on
• Eco-labelling
• Sustainability Indicators
• Fisheries Monitoring
• Property Rights in Fisheries Management
• Seabirds Sharks Management of Fishing
  Capacity.
• Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing

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CCRF Implementation

• Major Projects
• Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme
  Western Africa (UK)
• Research Fisheries Management in Lake
  Tanganyika (Finland)
• Reduction of environmental impact from Tropical
  Shrimp Trawling (- GEF support)
• Sustainable Management of Bay of Bengal Large
  Marine Ecosystem (- GEF support)

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CCRF Implementation

• Major Projects
• Inter-regional Programme for the Assistance to
  Developing Countries for the Implementation of
  the CCRF, components
• Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS), and
  Scientific Advice for Fisheries Management
  (Norway)
• Components awaiting support
• Compliance Agreement Statistics Fishing
  Operations Resource Surveys Policy, Planning
  and Management Fleet Restructuring Policies
  Post-Harvest Practices Trade Support to NGOs

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CCRF Implementation

• International Consensus-building next major
• FAO Expert Meetings
• Economic Incentives and Responsible Fisheries
  (incl. subsidies)
• Strategies Investment Needs for the Transition
  to Responsible Fisheries in Asia
• Management of Shared Stocks
• Reduction of Fishing Capacity
• Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem

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CCRF Implementation

• Enhancing Major Information Resources - Facts,
  Strategic Advice and Networking for Sustainable
  World Fisheries
• FAO FISHSTAT PLUS Data Base
• UN Atlas of the Oceans
• FAO Fisheries Atlas
• FAO Fisheries Global Information System (FIGIS)
• GLOBEFISH markets and trade
• ONEFISH - Internet Portal for Fisheries Research

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Outlook CCRF - Call for support

• The FAO Conference called on States,
  International Organisations, whether Governmental
  or Non-Governmental, and all those involved in
  fisheries to collaborate in the fulfilment and
  implementation of the CCRF.
• The FAO Fisheries Department welcomes continued
  co-operation in support of implementation of the
  CCRF.

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Outlook CCRF - Call for support

• In Your GEF International Waters Projects,
  please,
• THINK OF
• FISH and FISHERIES
• INVOLVE
• FISH PEOPLE