This document summarizes SEAFDEC's role in promoting sustainable fisheries and combating IUU fishing. It discusses SEAFDEC's initiatives since 1967 focusing on areas like capture fishery technology, post-harvest technology, aquaculture, and fisheries management. More recently, SEAFDEC has focused on issues like traceability systems, improving management approaches, and strengthening governance to combat IUU fishing. The document also outlines ways to strengthen sub-regional cooperation around management of transboundary species and issues like licensing, data collection, and capacity building.
2. SEAFDEC’s Role on Sustainable Fisheries
Addressing IUU Fishing and Traceability
SEAFDEC Initiatives to Combat IUU
Fishing
Needs to Achieve Fisheries Sustainability
and Combating IUU fishing
Ways Forward on
3. Established since 1967
Promotion of fisheries development through
research, training and information dissemination
During 1967-2000,
Four key areas:
Capture fishery technology,
Post-harvest technology,
Aquaculture, and
Fisheries management;
10 ASEAN Countries plus Japan are Members
ASEAN-SEAFDEC Strategic Partnership of FGC
Develop the Regionalization of the CCRF
4. During 2001-2010>
ASEAN-SEAFDEC Ministers adopted 2001 RES and PoA
Main programs were:
HRD to promote; responsible fisheries &
aquaculture, utilization of fish and fishery
products, quality & safety standards
Innovative fisheries management: strengthening SSF
management, through community and co-management
Food safety and quality assurance system, handling at sea
Improvement of fisheries statistics
Stock assessment and enhancement
Strengthening joint ASEAN-SEAFDEC harmonized
approaches and common positions
Awarded Margarita Lizárraga Medal for the biennium 2006-
2007.
5. During 2011- onwards >
Required emerging issues and changing of environment
ASEAN-SEAFDEC Ministers adopted 2011 RES and PoA
SEAFDEC Program Framework that linked to IUU are focused
Continued promotion of sustainable fisheries for food
security including quality and safety standards and
assurance system
Traceability system of aquaculture and capture products
through the supply chain
Improving management concepts and approaches for
sustainable fisheries
Strengthen fisheries governance, and
Required adjustment of national policy framework to combat IUU
fishing
6. Increasing seriousness of IUU Fishing in ASEAN
and SEAFDEC Meetings (ASWGFi, AFCF)
Due to:
Overfished
Increasing of
Fish demand
Occurrence of IUU fishing:
Within the Region
Foreign Vessels from
outside the Region
Import of IUU product
IUU fishing in highseas
8. Effective Fisheries management
- MCS
- Double Flagged
- fishing licensing
- boat registration
- Data collection
- Statistical system Cambodian boats Trad province Licensed boat (Pattani)
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9. ① Strengthening Sub-regional
cooperation/collaboration for development of MCS
networks and management of trans-boundary
species
In Gulf of Thailand:
Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand and Malaysia
In Andaman Sea:
Myanmar, Indonesia, Thailand and Malaysia
10. ② Identified Key Issues of Fisheries Management in
the sub-region
Catch Data/ Effective fishing logbook system
Artisanal fisheries/ small-scale fisheries
Commercial fisheries, Large-scale fisheries
Across-border fish landing / fishing
Port Inspection/ Port Monitoring system
Surveillance system
Enhancing local market
Awareness building at community
and local government
Fishing licensing/ Boat registration
Awareness Campaign
11. ③ Improving and Strengthening Vessel Registration
and Fishing Licensing System as a Management
Tool
To support development of regional vessel
records,
To support the MCS Network through
information sharing
12. ④ Capacity Building to Address the IUU Fishing in
the Region
Building the awareness on IUU fishing Technical
Consultation/ Expert Consultation
Regional training to trainers on the anti-IUU
fishing including MCS to fisheries officers
Support MCs on development and
Implementation of the NPOA-IUU fishing
Provide platform for ASEAN-SEAFDEC MCs to
discuss for Regional Approach to all
International Fish-Trade related issues
including IUU fishing Issue.
13. ⑤ Using of VMS/BBO for Fisheries Management and
against IUU Fishing
14. 2011 ASEAN-SEAFDEC Resolution and Plan of Action
RES7:
Promote effective management of fishing capacity and
use of responsible fishing technologies and
practices, recognizing the movement towards replacing
the “open access” to fisheries resources with “limited
access”;
RES8:
Foster cooperation among ASEAN Member Countries
and with international and regional organizations in
combating IUU fishing; and
RES10:
Strengthen knowledge/science-based development and
management of fisheries through enhancing the
national capacity in the collection and sharing of
fisheries data and information.
15. Adaptation of National Policy Framework
• Improve fisheries statistic framework;
• Effective Fisheries Management;
• Promote of co-management/ community-based
management.
Sub-regional cooperation: MCS,
data/information sharing
Harmonized Traceability System/Catch
Documentations for both commercial and
small scale fisheries
16. Catch
CDS: Transfer
Catch
Documentation
Scheme Caging
SDP: CDS
Statistical Document
Program Processing
CERTIFICATES:
parts of the Scheme Export
SDP
Import
17. Purposes of Traceability System/ Catch
Documentations Scheme (CDS)
to monitor the international trade in fish-
product;
to identify the origins of fish imported into
or exported from ….
to determine whether fish imported into or
exported from …are legally fishing
to gather catch data for the scientific
evaluation of the stocks.
18. Better integration of commercial and artisanal/
SS-fisheries into CDS (RFMOs Members) or SDP.
Guidelines for smooth operation may required
Sharing experience for best practice on
developing of logbook or landing data system./
Thinking of new device for better tracking such as
electronic tag
Link the issue to Licensing system
Capacity building
19. Link to life fish trade within the region: Exploring
on ASEAN Catch certification to facilitate intra-
regional trade of fish and fisheries product;
Link to SSF and domestic market: requires a
national policy framework for establishment of
Community-based and co-management;
Awareness building: through ICT.
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The Chairperson, Distinguished delegates, Ladies and gentlemen, Good Morning/Afternoon
promotion of sustainable fisheries development to strengthen the capability of member countries through research, training and information dissemination”
promotion of sustainable fisheries development to strengthen the capability of member countries through research, training and information dissemination”
Past Decade Activities during 2001-2010 – focused on enhancing regional technical cooperation among ASEAN-SEAFDEC Member Countries by involving both government and private sectors through appropriate framework and logistic arrangements by all possible means with a view to reduce disparities and promote solidarity among the Member Countries, of which priority was given to the important issues affecting sustainable fisheries development in the region. Moreover, the importance of the multi-functionality of fisheries focusing on poverty alleviation, livelihoods, and food security was also considered. The main programs were focused on: Human resource development in all aspects of fisheries such as responsible fisheries and aquaculture, maximizing the utilization of fish and fishery products, and on quality and safety standards including the application HACCPInnovative fisheries management, by improving the management concept and approaches for sustainable fisheries, such as strengthening small-scale fisheries management through the promotion of rights-based fisheries management, co-managementStock assessment and enhancement, strengthening the coastal resource assessment capabilities using the national or SEAFDEC research vessels under a cost-sharing policy, and in addition, promoting the regional framework on rehabilitation of fisheries resources and habitats/fishing grounds through resource enhancementPromotion of responsible and sustainable aquaculture, including the development of environment-friendly aquaculture, development of the nutrition-efficient feeds and feeding management, and good aquaculture practicesDisease diagnosis and surveillance of existing highly virulent diseases as well as new emerging diseasesFood safety and quality assurance system particularly on the analysis and detection of chemical and antibiotic residuesImprovement of regional fisheries statistical systems and mechanismsStrengthening joint ASEAN-SEAFDEC harmonized approaches and common positions on priority issues affecting ASEAN-SEAFDEC Member Countries, including those related to international trade in fish and fishery products
Taking into account the required emerging issues and changing of the environment such as those relating to the impact of climate change, fish trade related issues, poverty alleviation and livelihoods, fisheries sustainability and food safetyIn 2011 the ASEAN-SEAFDEC Ministers on fisheries adopted the 2011-ASEAN-SEAFDEC Resolution and Plan of Action. SEAFDECprograms would focus on:Continued promotion of sustainable aquaculture development including accelerating awareness and capacity building in fish health management while stock enhancement would emphasize on internationally threatened and over exploited speciesIncluding the quality and safety standards and assurance system especially the food safety of aquaculture products, and traceability system of aquaculture and capture products through the supply chainImproving management concepts and approaches for sustainable fisheries by emphasizing on fisheries governance, and the required adjustment of national policy-management framework to combat IUU fishing through regional cooperation on MCS and improvement of information/data collection, as well as on the promotion of community-based fisheries management or/and co-management under the new concept on ecosystem approach to fisheries
RES7. Promote better management of fishing capacity and use of responsible fishing technologies and practices, recognizing the movement towards replacing the “open access” to fisheries resources with “limited access” through rights-based fisheries, and at the same time, secure the rights and well-being of inland and coastal fisheries communities;RES8. Foster cooperation among ASEAN Member Countries and with international and regional organizations in combating IUU fishing;RES10. Strengthen knowledge/science-based development and management of fisheries through enhancing the national capacity in the collection and sharing of fisheries data and information;
During the past decade, many attempts had been initiated to improve fisheries management with the fundamental objective of reducing IUU and destructive fishing. The seriousness of this concern has been increasingly expressed through discussions and recommendations in various meetings and consultations such as those of the SEAFDEC Council, the ASEAN Fisheries Consultative Forum (AFCF), the SEAFDEC Regional Advisory Committee (RAC) on Fisheries Management in Southeast Asia, the Regional Plan of Action (RPOA) to Combat IUU Fisheries, as well as during the Meetings of the ASEAN Heads of State especially at the launching of the roadmap for ASEAN Economic Community.
In improving the management of fishing capacity and ensuring that fishing effort do not exceed the availability of resources in the ASEAN countries, the establishment of good and systematic schemes for the registration of fishing vessels, and the development of processes to issue license to fish are the basic requirements. From the comprehensive records on vessels, gear and people involved in fishing, reliable catch data and report on actual fishing effort could be derived. Information on vessels is also critical in developing effective Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) networks, which are instrumental for the cooperation on management of fishing capacity and support the efforts to combat IUU fishing, in order to achieve long-term sustainability of marine resources and coastal habitats. National arrangements that would facilitate the control and enforcement of laws and regulations should therefore be developed to ensure, maintain and conserve fisheries resources and habitats.
The 13th Meeting of the FCG/ASSP recommended that a common catch documentationscheme for the Southeast Asian region should comply with the requirements of RFMOs aswell with those imposed by importing countries, e.g. USA and EU countries, in order tofacilitate intra-regional trade of fish and fishery products,