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Title: Achieving%20Sustainable%20Fisheries


1
Achieving Sustainable Fisheries
Community-Based Certification (CBC) of the Blue
Crab Fishery of the Northeastern Guimaras Strait,
Negros Occidental, Philippines Testing the Waters
Katrina Jayme, Filemon Romero, Jose
Ingles WWF-Philippines
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Iloilo
Victorias City
E.B. Magalona
Silay City
Talisay City
BACOLOD CITY
Negros Occidental
3
Introduction
Certification An incentive scheme using market
forces to promote sustainable resource use.
Marine Stewardship Council (MSC) Certification A
certification scheme based on the MSC Principles
Criteria, using the Fish Forever eco-label to
distinguish certified products.
MSC Principles Criteria (MSC PC) 1 Status of
target stock 2 Status of ecosystem 3 Management
system, operational activities
4
Introduction
  • MSC Principles Criteria (PC) A sustainable
    fishery...
  • can be continued indefinitely at a reasonable
    level
  • maximizes the ecological health and abundance of
    marine fish
  • maintains the diversity and structure of the
    ecosystem
  • conforms to all laws and regulations
  • maintains present and future economic
    and social options and
    benefits
  • is conducted in a socially and
    economically fair manner

5
Introduction
  • MSC Certified Fisheries
  • Alaskan Salmon
  • Burry Inlet Cockles
  • Loch Torridon
  • New Zealand Hoki
  • South West Mackerel Handline Fishery
  • Thames Herring
  • Western Australia Rock Lobster

6
Introduction
  • Fisheries Undergoing Assessment
  • Alaska Pollock
  • Alaska Halibut Sablefish
  • British Columbia Salmon
  • Chilean Hake
  • Mexican Baja California Spiny Lobster
  • North Sea Herring
  • South African Hake
  • South Georgia Toothfish

7
Community-Based Certification
  • Community-Based Certification (CBC) Approach
  • Step 1 Site selection
  • Step 2 Establishment of community relations
  • Step 3 Biological assessment and market
    analysis
  • Step 4 MSC Certification and marketing

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Community-Based Certification
  • CBC Approach (1) Site Selection Assess the...
  • Sustainability of the fishery
  • Existing and potential markets
  • Local capacity
  • Controls and governance

9
Community-Based Certification
  • CBC Approach (2) Establishing Community
    Relations
  • Strengthen community-based organizations
  • Promote responsible management of the blue crab
    fishery
  • Protect and conserve crab fish populations and
    the marine environment on which they depend
  • Promote economic incentives toward managing the
    precious resource

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Community-Based Certification
CBC Approach (2) Establishing Community
Relations
  • Institutional-building
  • Capacity-building
  • IEC
  • Advocacy
  • Networking
  • Promotion of effective law enforcement

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Community-Based Certification
CBC Approach (3) Biological Assessment ...
  • Market Analysis
  • Sources
  • Sizes, volume, prices of crabs bought and
    sold
  • Outlets destinations
  • Selling practices
  • Marketing costs
  • Marketing practices problems
  • Length frequency measurements
  • Catch composition rates
  • Fishery demographics
  • Egg count/fecundity

12
Community-Based Certification
CBC Approach (4) MSC Certification
  • (1) Initial discussion
  • (2) Preliminary assessment
  • (3) Review outcomes of preliminary assessment
  • (4) Final assessment
  • (5) Peer review
  • (6) Award certificate
  • (7) Maintenance visit
  • Chain of custody certification

13
Community-Based Certification
CBC Approach (4) MSC Certification
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Community-Based Certification
  • MSC Accredited Certifiers
  • Moody Marine Ltd
  • Scientific Certification Services
  • SGS Product Process Certification
  • Travel Certification Inc.
  • TQCSI - MSC
  • MacAlister Elliot Partners Limited
  • Surefish

15
Results Accomplishments
Step 1 Blue crab fishery selected as pilot site
for CBC
  • Enforcing Factors
  • Blue crab is countrys 6th most important export
    Negros Occidental is in highest blue crab
    producing region
  • Market sensitive to certification
  • Existing transaction records
  • Existing POs FARMCs
  • Sympathetic LGUs
  • Concerns
  • Gaps in knowledge base
  • Ecosystem links unexplored
  • No management system

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Results Accomplishments
Step 2 Community readied for MSC certification
using CBCRM
  • Communities actively participating in resource
    management
  • FARMCs politically empowered
  • Provincial-wide blue crab fishery ordinance
    initiated
  • Gear conversion from gillnets to crab pots
  • Community-based enforcement
  • Certification introduced

17
Results Accomplishments
Step 3 Biological study conducted market
analysis attempted more studies needed
  • Biological and fishery stock assessment indicates
    overfishing
  • Factors affecting the fishery e.g., fishing
    pressure, exploitation of juvenile crabs,
    wasteful fishing practices, ghost fishing
  • Recommended management strategies e.g., regulate
    fishing efforts, minimum size, gear conversion
  • Population and genetic study initiated
  • Market analysis not completed
  • PCRA in 10 barangays

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Results Accomplishments
Market Profile
  • Notes on Supply
  • Harvested throughout year
  • Peak season Jul. - Dec. 30-50 kilos/unit of
    effort
  • Lean months Jan. - Apr. 5-15 kilos/unit of
    effort

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Results Accomplishments
Market Profile
  • Notes on Demand
  • Demand is constant and unsaturated
  • Peak season buyers buy as much as 20 boxes (400
    to 1000 kilos/day)
  • Price is volatile to available supply

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Results Accomplishments
Market Profile
  • Notes on Distribution
  • Crab pots vs. gill nets
  • Deliver/sorting at buyer station (usually by
    women in family)
  • Storage transport
  • Bad community-to-market roads
  • No landing port

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Results Accomplishments
Market Profile
  • Notes on Market Share
  • No official data
  • Guesstimate
  • Phillips 50
  • Stellar 25
  • Others 25
  • Retailers Wholesalers (Alni, Girter,
    NGB/Gotel, Orient Marine, etc.)

22
Results Accomplishments
Step 4 MSC Certification delayed
  • MSC Certification not pursued assessment could
    not proceed due to data gaps and lack of
    management regime
  • Community-Based Certification ? Community-Based
    Coastal Resource Management to prepare the
    fishery for assessment against certification

23
Results Accomplishments
CBCRM Food Security of the Northeastern
Guimaras Strait
  • Institution-building capacity-building
  • Enforcement policy
  • CRM planning implementation
  • Livelihood fishery technologies
  • Sustainability IEC

24
Lessons Learned
  • MSC Certification may have better potential as a
    reward vs. motivator for sustainable fishery
    management
  • Insufficient data made it difficult to choose one
    site over the other in terms of potential for
    certification
  • Main challenge in CBC is community mobilization,
    integration
  • Clamor for enforcement overshadowed certification
  • Direct economic benefits from
    certification uncertain

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Recommendations
  • CBCRM as main strategy to prepare fishery for
    assessment
  • Define role of the community
  • Determine management body
  • Collaborate with trade related institutions
  • Investigate other consumer-oriented programs
  • Investigate other assessment models
  • Develop community-based MCS

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