responsible fisheries

1. Presented by
Abhishek gautam
Gaurav kumar

2.  Unsustainable fishing practices put at risk the long-
term viability of fisheries and livelihoods of fishers and
fishing communities which depend upon them.
 Over the last few years, FAO has developed several
policy instruments which, alongside an ecosystem-
based approach to fisheries management, aim to
address unsustainable and harmful fishing practices.
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3.  Rights based fishing-
 Is a recent and to some a revolutionary concept.
 Its background is the failure of traditional fisheries
management to improve the economics of the fishing
industry.
 The traditional way of dealing with excessive pressure
on fish stocks has been to reduce the use and efficiency
of fishing vessels, as deemed necessary to protect the
resources.
 While such methods may have been successful in
protecting the resources, they have been directly
harmful from an economic point of view.
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4.  Catch shares is a general term for several fishery
management strategies that allocate a specific portion of the
total allowable fishery catch to individual fishermen,
cooperatives, or fishing communities for their exclusive use.
 The first catch share program was implemented in 1990
in the Mid-Atlantic Surf Clam and Ocean Quahog
fishery.
 How do they work-
 Part of the catch—or a share—of a species is allocated to
individual fishermen or groups. Each holder of a catch share
must stop fishing when he reaches his limit.
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5.  In the United States and worldwide, catch share programs
can provide many benefits, including
 Eliminating the race to fish
 Reducing the likelihood that annual catch limits will
be exceeded
 Reducing the costs to produce seafood
 Reducing market gluts and increasing dockside prices
 Extending fishing seasons
 Reducing bycatch
 Improving fishermen’s safety
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6.  A string of publications has proposed a new approach
to fishing, called “balanced harvesting”
 The new approach is defined as “… distributing a
moderate mortality from fishing across.
 The widest possible range of species, stocks, and sizes
in an ecosystem, in proportion to their natural
productivity.
 So that the relative size and species composition is
maintained.
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7.  CCRF- Code of Conduct for Responsible
Fisheries(1995)
 Ensure that fishing is conducted with due respect for
existing regulations for safety, prevention of
collision at sea and protection of marine
environment.
 There are 12 guide line
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8.  Fishing operations
 Information and knowledge sharing
 Responshible fish trade
 Increasing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to
poverty alleviation and food security
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9.  Inland fisheries
 Aquaculture development
 Fisheries management
 Integration of fisheries inti coastal
 Precautionary approach to capture fisheries and species
introduction
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10.  Impelmentation of the IPOA to prevent and eliminate
IUU fishing
 Indicators for sustainable development of marine
capture fisheries
 Reponsible fish utilization
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