Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the RECOFI region: Establishment of a Database of Violations

Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing in the RECOFI region: Establishment of a Database of Violations

Meeting document RECOFI/VI/2011/7

Year of publication 2011

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Author Fishery and Aquaculture Economics and Policy Division

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Statutory body / Meeting title Regional Commission for Fisheries (RECOFI)

Meeting symbol RECOFI/VI/2011/7

Meeting Session Number RECOFI/VI/2011/7

Language English

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Report of the FAO/RECOFI Regional Workshop to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing. Muscat, Oman, 30 March–2 April 2009. 2009

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This document contains the report of the FAO/RECOFI Regional Workshop to Combat Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing, which was held in Muscat, Oman, from 30 March to 2 April 2009. The objective of the Workshop was to develop national capacity and promote regional coordination so that countries would be better placed to combat illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing activities, including through the development and implementation of relevant international fisheries instruments, taking appropriate measures at regional level and elaborating national plans of action to combat IUU fishing (NPOAs–IUU). The Workshop addressed: the nature, scope and impacts of IUU fishing; the international policy and framework to combat IUU fishing; the International Plan of Action to Prevent, Deter and Eliminate Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing; FAO Fisheries Technical Guidelines No. 9 and the development and role of NPOAs–IUU; port State measures to combat IUU fishing; the role of the flag State in combating IUU fishing; the state of fishery legislation in RECOFI Members and regional cooperation to defeat IUU fishing through regional fisheries management organizations or arrangements and regional plans of action to combat IUU fishing. Working groups were formed to enhance the participatory nature of the Workshop and as a means of engendering broader and deeper discussion on concepts and issues relating to IUU fishing. Participants considered a list of IUU fishing issu es that had been distilled from discussion in the Workshop. For each issue they were requested to identify an appropriate tool for overcoming the constraint or problem, action to be taken and expected results for small-scale and industrial-scale fisheries at the national and regional levels. The final session of the Workshop entitled “Brainstorming: looking ahead – national, regional and international follow-up to the Workshop” sought to identify outcomes that could be addressed further by the RECOFI Working Group on Fisheries Management. Funding and support for the Workshop were provided by the FAO Regular Programme, RECOFI and the Governments of Oman and Sweden.