2. The Problems:
• Data was not being gathered in any systematic manner.
• Many of the government agencies were isolated ,entering
and reentering data.
• Data was being lost due to viruses, hard drive crashes,
theft.
3. The objectives:
Offsite backups data and virus protection
A shared data system accessible across ministries
Workloads can be distributed to districts
Performance matrics for government staff
Increase transparency and service to stakeholders
24. Timor Leste Issues
Suspected they are losing natural resources every day due
to illegal fishing.
Infrequent patrols by Navy, Marine Police.
Lack of incentive for fishermen to cooperate with
authorities.
No IUU list.
No system in place to determine whether large
commercial vessels have license to fish in the area.
No data collected from commercial vessels regarding fish
catch in Indonesian and surrounding waters.
25. Changing the business model
Who pays the fee? Why should
fishers’ allow themselves to be
monitored?
Other benefits that can be
delivered to the fishers,
improved safety, collecting
management data, documenting
fishing patterns, etc..
26. Strategy to engage the fishermen in helping
to combat illegal fishing
Equipping the fishermen
with real time satellite
transmitters. These
transmitters automatically
record the location of the boat
every ten minutes. They have
two user activated buttons.
The instructions to the
captains are: if your sinking,
press button #1 to call for
Help, and press button #2 to
report illegal fishing
27. Intended outcomes
Have illegal fishers from other
countries view every artisanal boat as
having the potential to report them.
Gain a measure of how many our
fishers are illegally fishing in other
countries waters.
Build partnerships between the fishers
and the Dept of Fisheries, Marine
Police, Military.
Collect management data
28. Benefits
Fishermen Natural Resource Governmental
Management Agencies
Abilitythey arefor help Get to seeand how Engaging the report
when
to call
in fishers go
where
fishermen to
trouble. much time they illegal fishing will add
If they are pulled into spend between
locations.
tremendously to the
countries capacity to
foreign port then
likely they have been Catch data/distance patrol its waters. Saves
time, fuel, boats.
arrested for illegal
fishing and are not
dead.
travelled. CPUE
This is the start of This is the start of
building a cooperative
If the boat is overdue,
their families can see
building a positive
working relationship
with fishers.
relationship between
governmental
where they are and agencies and boat
be assured the boat is captains.
OK.
From all over the internet we pull it together in one location, often times we provide multiple sources of the same data; e.g. 3 weather maps, 3 sea surface temp, 2 wind and wave height
Data for the fishermen
Explain Price per talin ($1) as opposed to price per kg. The price is always a dollar, but a talinwieghs 760g in Bobonaro and 300g in Dili.Local perspective on taxonomy as opposed to Rome (Eschmeyer’s) taxonomy, when we asked locals to contribute data according to Rome’s perspective we got very little, when we asked them according to their own taxonomy we got data. Recording local names and prices with GPS camerareliable data collection by FMimage vouchers for data
Explain the bathymetry project, Main points: working through the ChefeSucco to identify participants, equipment is loaned to the fishers as long as they participate in the project. Fishermen agree to contribute data in exchange for training. This is the start of developing a positive relationship between the fishers and department of fisheries. “We put a GPS Sounder on artisanal boats and configure them so they automatically record a new depth reading every time the boat moves 3 meters …
“This is own of the outputs of the community mapping …
Explain about Tara Bandu, having the traditional systems documented and recognized by Ministry of Justice
Main points:Explain very thin bandwidth designed for areas with poor internet connectivity.There are menu option available here that are not on the front page, MCS, Import/Export Part of the system is to measure performance of those entering the data, how recently? how many records of what type? boat, price, etc..
Originally implemented in Aceh
Explain the SPOT strategy. Main message points are:Very cheap, enlisting the small scale fishers to help monitor for illegal fishing.Changing the VMS business model from let me put this on your boat so I can track you” to “let give this to you so you have a way to call for help and in exchange you will report illegal fishing, which is also to your advantage.”Improving safety at sea for small scale fishers.Biggest fans of the project were the fishermen’s families.
