Overview of CCRF & implementation efforts.

1. The Code of Conduct for
Responsible Fisheries
(CCRF)
Fisheries Department
FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION
OF THE UNITED NATIONS

2. Scope of presentation - for Session V. - GEF IW Conference:
Overview of CCRF &
implementation efforts
–World fisheries: context (facts/issues)
–The Code of Conduct (CCRF)
–CCRF - Implementation
–Outlook - suggestion
– Barg, FAO

3. World Fisheries
For human consumption: fish = 18% of all
animal protein consumed
World trade of fish: more than US $ 50
billion/year; half by developing countries;
more important than tea, coffee
Total production: = 117 million tonnes (mt)
capture fisheries = 86 mt = 74%
(marine = 67 %; inland = 7%)
aquaculture = 31 mt = 26%
for human consumption = 79% (rest = reduced)

4. World Fisheries: Major Issues
Contribution to food security
– food supply and human nutrition
Poverty alleviation and rural development
– livelihoods of small scale fishing & farming
communities
Sustainable development
– conservation and management of
resources

5. World Fisheries: Major Issues
Over-fishing & excess capacity of fishing
effort
Environmental effects of fishing: habitat
degradation
By-catch, discards
Environmental impacts (pollution, habitat
degradation) ON fishery resources:
inland waters, also coastal waters

6. The Code of
Conduct for
Responsible
Fisheries
(FAO, 1995)

7. The CCRF: Its Origins
FAO Committee of Fisheries meeting 1991: call
for more responsible practice, better
management
1992 Cancún Conference on Responsible
Fishing called on FAO to prepare a Code of
Conduct
Technical Consultations 1992-1995 lead to
adoption of CCRF by FAO Conference
Member Governments

8. The CCRF: Its Goals
sustainable benefits from fisheries in
terms of food, employment, trade and
economic well-being for people throughout
the world
provides principles and standards
applicable to the conservation,
management and development of all
fisheries

9. The CCRF: Its Structure
Articles of the Code
– Art. 1: Nature and scope
– Art. 2: Objectives of the Code
– Art. 3: Relationship with other International
Instruments
– Art. 4: Implementation, Monitoring and Updating
– Art. 5: Special Requirements of Developing
Countries
– Art. 6: General Principles

10. The CCRF: Its Structure
Articles of the Code
– Art. 7: Fisheries management
– Art. 8: Fishing Operations
– Art. 9: Aquaculture Development
– Art. 10: Integration of Fisheries into Coastal Area
Management
– Art. 11: Post-Harvest Practices and Trade
– Art. 12: Fisheries Research

11. CCRF : Actors
All members and non-members of FAO,
Fishing entities, sub-regional, regional and
global organisations, governmental or
non-governmental,
and
All other interested stakeholders
concerned with fisheries resources and
fish trade

12. CCRF: Implementation
FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries

13. CCRF: Implementation
• Numerous initiatives at national levels
– awareness raising, better practice,
planning, legislation,
• Monitoring, reporting and discussions
– FAO Committee of Fisheries (COFI)
– Regional Fishery Organisations / Fishery
Commissions

14. CCRF: Implementation issues
• Building institutional capacity
• Coping with social stress and costs
• Finding optimal transition pathways
• Selecting optimal mix of measures
• Mobilising participation
• Protecting small-scale fisheries
• Capacity building ; training; human resource
development
• Insufficient technical assistance and
financial resources

15. CCRF: Implementation
FAO support to Technical & Policy
consultations on:
– Eco-labelling
– Sustainability Indicators
– Fisheries Monitoring
– Property Rights in Fisheries Management
– Seabirds; Sharks; Management of Fishing
Capacity.
– Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated
Fishing

16. CCRF: Implementation
Major Projects
– Sustainable Fisheries Livelihoods Programme
Western Africa (UK)
– Research & Fisheries Management in Lake
Tanganyika (Finland)
– Reduction of environmental impact from Tropical
Shrimp Trawling (- GEF support)
– Sustainable Management of Bay of Bengal Large
Marine Ecosystem (- GEF support)

17. CCRF: Implementation
Major Projects
Inter-regional Programme for the Assistance to
Developing Countries for the Implementation of
the CCRF, components :
– Monitoring, Control, and Surveillance (MCS), and
Scientific Advice for Fisheries Management (Norway)
Components awaiting support:
– Compliance Agreement; Statistics; Fishing Operations;
Resource Surveys; Policy, Planning and Management;
Fleet Restructuring Policies; Post-Harvest Practices &
Trade; Support to NGOs

18. CCRF: Implementation
International Consensus-building: next major
FAO Expert Meetings:
– Economic Incentives and Responsible
Fisheries (incl. subsidies)
– Strategies & Investment Needs for the
Transition to Responsible Fisheries in Asia
– Management of Shared Stocks
– Reduction of Fishing Capacity
– Responsible Fisheries in the Marine
Ecosystem

19. CCRF: Implementation
Enhancing Major Information Resources - Facts,
Strategic Advice and Networking for Sustainable World
Fisheries:
– FAO FISHSTAT PLUS Data Base
– UN Atlas of the Oceans
– FAO Fisheries Atlas
– FAO Fisheries Global Information System
(FIGIS)
– GLOBEFISH markets and trade
– ONEFISH - Internet Portal for Fisheries
Research

20. Outlook: CCRF - Call for support
The FAO Conference called on States,
International Organisations, whether
Governmental or Non-Governmental, and
all those involved in fisheries to
collaborate in the fulfilment and
implementation of the CCRF.
The FAO Fisheries Department welcomes
continued co-operation in support of
implementation of the CCRF.

21. Outlook: CCRF - Call for support
In Your GEF International Waters
Projects, please,
THINK OF
FISH and FISHERIES
INVOLVE
“FISH PEOPLE”