Pacific Tuna Industry Efforts and Possible Role in Combatting IUU fishing
1. Coral Triangle Fishers
Forum II
Illegal, Unreported, Unregulated (IUU) Fishing and Traceability for
Fishing Communities and Industry
Pacific Tuna Industry Efforts and possible role in
Combatting IUU
Lami Bay, Suva Fiji
18th – 20th June 2012
2. Introduction
Association of National Associations
Forum Fisheries Countries (NZ,Aust)
Protect and Promote commercial interest
Organise Pacific Industry to play a
sustainable role
Incorporated in 2005 in FSM
Governed by a Board
3. Role of PITIA in
Combatting IUU
Communication to the ground
Building awareness on obligations under
regional and international instruments
Injecting industry realities to policy making
Enhancing compliance by creating cost
efficiency
4. Role of industry in
combatting IUU
Introduction of ‘Industry at sea
monitoring’
Reiterating
importance of market place
control (CDS)
Agreed by FFC
5. Some Facts emphasised:
No one benefits more from protecting the
value of the fishery than the legitimate
fisherman
No one cares more about protecting this
region from IUU than the Pacific domestic
industry who has nowhere else to go
In an ideal world – the fundamental role of
the industry in combatting IUU would be
voluntary compliance