Improving Developing Countries’ Compliance with IOTC Conservation and Management Measures - GCP/INT/304/EC

Improving Developing Countries’ Compliance with IOTC Conservation and Management Measures - GCP/INT/304/EC

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Rome, Italy ;

Pages 2

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Project

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Synopsis (short abstract) The Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) is an intergovernmental organization responsible for the management of tuna and tuna-like species in the Indian Ocean. It aims to promote cooperation among the Contracting Parties (Members) and Cooperating Non-Contracting Parties (collectively referred to as CPCs) of the IOTC, with a view to ensuring, through appropriate management, the conservation and optimum utilization of stocks covered by the organization’s establishing Agreement, and to encourage sustainable development of fisheries based on such stocks. The proposed actions of this project were related to the implementation of Article X of the IOTC Agreement and the IOTC’s Conservation and Management Measures (CMMs), which the beneficiary countries continue to have difficulties implementing. The primary objective of the project was to strengthen the ability of fisheries administrations of IOTC developing coastal States CPCs to meet their obligations to sustainably manage the fish stocks under the mandate of the IOTC. The project focused on IOTC CPCs.

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The objective of this manual is to provide a working document for Contracting Parties (or “Member”) and Cooperating Non-contracting Parties (CPCs) to use in the implementation of the IOTC Resolutions. The content is divided into two chapters. The first chapter provides a broad overview of the international regime within which the Indian Ocean Tuna Commission has evolved, then examines the role of specific key international legal instruments (conventions and agreements) related to Indian Ocean tuna fisheries. It describes the roles of Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs) and Regional Fisheries Advisory Bodies (RFABs), and explains what the IOTC is, how it is supposed to work, who drives it and what results are expected of it. The second chapter summarises the principles and measures provided by international instruments that guide fisheries management. It then describes the fisheries management tools used by IOTC from the perspectives of coastal States, flag States, port States and market States. This manual should be viewed as a living document that can be revised and improved by all parties as experience is expanded in the implementation of the IOTC Conservation and Management Measures.

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