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FADs: Improving Through Monitoring and Management Dr. Victor Restrepo MAY2018 INFOFISH WORLD TUNA Vice President, Science TRADE CONFERENCE Introduction All fisheries need to be sustainably managed. FADs are part of the purse seine fishery.

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FADs: Improving Through Monitoring and Management

  • Dr. Victor Restrepo

Vice President, Science

MAY2018 INFOFISH WORLD TUNA TRADE CONFERENCE

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Introduction

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All fisheries need to be sustainably managed. FADs are part of the purse seine

  • fishery. The entire fishery needs to

be managed holistically

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Sustainability (as per MSC Standard)

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  • All types of fishing gears require active

management and FADs are no exception.

  • Principle 1 (Sustainable fish stocks). This depends
  • n all fishing gears. Managing FADs alone won’t be

enough.

  • Principle 2 (Minimizing environmental impact). FAD

sets tend to have higher bycatch. But free school sets also have impacts.

  • Principle 3 (Effective management). The fishery as a

whole needs to be monitored and managed. FADs are not the only element that needs MCS and governance.

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Purse Seine Fisheries towards MSC Certification

New ISSF report summarizes best practices for tropical tuna purse seine fisheries with FAD component that aim to participate in Fishery Improvement Programs (FIPs) w/ MSC certification objective Recommended practices linked to MSC Fishery Certification Requirements

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The Details

MSC Standard Principles:

  • For each Principle, there is a set of Performance Indicators (PIs). And for each

PI, there are one or more Scoring Issues (SIs).

  • The report synthetizes the actions that the purse seine fishery needs to take (or

to support) in order to achieve passing scores.

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6 Best Practices to Manage FADs

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6 Best Practices to Manage FADs

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Additional FAD Reporting for Assessment Purposes

Additional satellite buoy data (tracks, echosounder estimates of biomass, etc.) can be useful to scientifically analyze the impact of FAD fisheries and to improve stock assessments.

Example: From IATTC WG on FADs

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6 Best Practices to Manage FADs

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6 Best Practices to Manage FADs

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A More Sustainable FAD

Considering the variety of designs and materials used in construction of FADs worldwide the ISSF Bycatch Steering Committee proposes a ranking of FADs according to the risk of entanglement associated with each design.

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Embracing a Better FAD

As sustainable fishing approaches, like using non-entangling FADs, become more familiar, fishers in ISSF skippers workshops express a growing acceptance of them over time, and RFMOs are making progress on sustainble FAD measures:

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6 Best Practices to Manage FADs

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6 Best Practices to Manage FADs

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ISSF resource(s) — research, fisher

workshops, videos, fisher guides, infographics, advocacy tools —and sometimes company conservation measures, support these best

practices

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Q & A

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