Moving Beyond Rights-Based Management: A Transparent Approach to Distributing the Conservation Burden and Benefit in Tuna Fisheries
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Determining the distribution of the conservation burden and benefit is a critical challenge to the conservation and management of trans-boundary fish stocks. Given current levels of overfishing and overcapacity in many trans-boundary fisheries, some or all participating States must necessarily reach a compromise with regard to their interests and carry some share of the conservation burden. This article proposes a new approach to distributing the conservation burden and benefit in trans-boundary fisheries, and explores this approach in the world’s largest tuna fishery: the tropical tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific. Such an approach would enable Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) to transparently ensure that conservation burden and benefit distributions are consistent with international obligations. The article recommends that RFMOs consider developing decision-making frameworks that would enable existing scientific processes to determine the necessary extent of conservation measures, while a new conservation burden methodology would then determine the implementation of the measure and its impact on each member.
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Hey, supra note 11.
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In 2010, the Japanese government stated at an international tuna workshop that allocation was a very difficult issue, particularly in the context of the WCPO tuna fisheries where much of the catch is taken from within EEZs. Personal notes. Comments by Masanori Miyahara, Chief Counsellor. Fisheries Agency of Japan. Commissioner and Head Delegate to the WCPFC. Comments made on 30 June 2010 at Kobe II International Workshop on RFMO Management of Tuna Fisheries. (Brisbane, Australia. 29 June to 1 July 2010).
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Average delivered value 2008 to 2010. Derived from P Terawasi and L Rodwell, Value of WCPO Tuna Fisheries (Excel database) (Pacific Islands Forum Fisheries Agency, Honiara, Solomon Islands, 2011).
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In 2009, John Hampton presented a SPC study that found that all exemptions were having a significant impact on the effectiveness of the 2008 Conservation and Management Measure for Bigeye and Yellowfin. See: J Hampton and S Harley, Assessment of the Potential Implications of Application of CMM-2008–01 for Bigeye and Yellowfin Tuna, Fifth Regular Session of the Scientific Committee to the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (Port Vila, Vanuatu. 10–21 August, 2009). Available at http://www.wcpfc.int. In the long term, Pacific island States appear to accept that these broad exemptions will need to be replaced with specific measures. H Parris, ‘Tuna Dreams and Tuna Realities: Defining the term ‘maximising economic returns from the tuna fisheries’ in six Pacific island States’ (2010) 34 Marine Policy 105–113.
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Moving Beyond Rights-Based Management: A Transparent Approach to Distributing the Conservation Burden and Benefit in Tuna Fisheries
In: The International Journal of Marine and Coastal LawSearch for other papers by Quentin Hanich in
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Abstract
Determining the distribution of the conservation burden and benefit is a critical challenge to the conservation and management of trans-boundary fish stocks. Given current levels of overfishing and overcapacity in many trans-boundary fisheries, some or all participating States must necessarily reach a compromise with regard to their interests and carry some share of the conservation burden. This article proposes a new approach to distributing the conservation burden and benefit in trans-boundary fisheries, and explores this approach in the world’s largest tuna fishery: the tropical tuna fisheries of the western and central Pacific. Such an approach would enable Regional Fisheries Management Organizations (RFMOs) to transparently ensure that conservation burden and benefit distributions are consistent with international obligations. The article recommends that RFMOs consider developing decision-making frameworks that would enable existing scientific processes to determine the necessary extent of conservation measures, while a new conservation burden methodology would then determine the implementation of the measure and its impact on each member.
| All Time | Past Year | Past 30 Days | |
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| Abstract Views | 1015 | 206 | 29 |
| Full Text Views | 327 | 27 | 1 |
| PDF Views & Downloads | 246 | 82 | 2 |