PNA-8 presentation

“PNA- 8 Small Island Nations
or 8 Large Ocean States?”.
Maurice Brownjohn, OBE,
Commercial Manager, PNA Office, Majuro , RMI
The 2nd Conference of Ministers of Fisheries and Aquaculture in Africa
(CAMFA).
28-29 April 2014 , Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
You are familiar with the EU, Europe and
North Atlantic, like other oceans mostly HS
Indian Ocean and SE Asia
The PNA area, a vast 14.3 million KM2 of
combined EEZ
8 small island nations, but in fact all are “large ocean states.”
Includes 2 of the smallest island nations in the world Nauru 20km2
and Tuvalu 26km2. 10,000 people each.
PNA: 8 LARGE OCEAN STATES
2010
Country
Land area
Population %pop (km2)
EEZ area
(km2)
% of Total PNA tuna
% of total PNA
catch
Federated States of
112,600
Micronesia
1.53
701
2,780,000
18.82
15.29
Republic of Kiribati 88,100
1.20
811
3,550,000
24.04
12.98
54,000
0.73
181
2,131,000
14.43
1.72
Republic of Nauru 12,100
0.16
21
320,000
2.17
5.79
Republic of Palau 20,300
0.28
488
629,000
4.26
0.32
Papua New Guinea 6,617,000
89.85 462,243 3,120,000
21.12
53.00
6.11
28,370
1,340,000
9.07
8.25
0.14
26
900,000
6.09
2.63
100
100
Marshall Islands
Solomon Islands
450,000
Republic of Tuvalu 10,200
TOTAL
7,364,300 100 492,841 14,770,000
50% of global skipjack catch
Africa, on the same scale.
PARTIES TO THE NAURU AGREEMENT
Nauru Agreement Concerning Cooperation in
the Management of Fisheries of Common
Interest (Nauru Agreement - 1982)
Established on the basis of Common
Concerns/Interests
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exploitation of common stocks of fish, both
within the EEZs and adjacent waters, by DWFNs
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dependence, as developing island states, on
the rational development and utilization of the
living resources within the EEZs, in particular the
common stocks of fish
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co-operation in the management of the 8
EEZs to achieve maximum benefits from the
fisheries resources
PNA MTCs include:
– 100% ships registry and good standing,
– 100% VMS tracking,
– 100% observer coverage on purse seiners,
– Mandatory Log sheets by captains.
– Tuna discard bans,
– Mesh regulations,
– 100% in port transshipping, banned at sea,
– Port sampling and landing monitored.
– pre inspections in port,
– period FAD closures,
– High Seas pocket closed [as term of license in zone]since
2008.
1St PNA presidential Tuna Summit
PALAU 2010
FADs
Satellite
eForms
Observers
Long Line
Purse Seine
Other Vessels
Data Centre
PNA Management Access
Company Access
*VMS Access to company Vessels
iFIMS, also e reports
Companies
Next FADS
*ATS/VMS Access/Alerts for Vessels & FADs
*eForms and Catch Traceability
*Observer Management and Monitoring
*Transshipment monitoring and sampling
*Backup Replication of Data to local Server
FFA
SPC
Vessel
Register
FAD Tracking
VDS
Observer
Tracking
Crew Register
Observer
Management
Audit &
Traceability
ATS
Catch
Traceability
MCS
Live Access
and Photos
Alerting
Reporting
Visual and
Email
Port Sampling
e- Forms
Other
Integration
Licensing
iFIMS - Industry self regulation
FAD TRACK 3 boats for 6 months [1/200th]
Purse Seine Fishing area
10N / 10S
ESTIMATED 30,000 a year in fishery
The changing face of IUU
No name, flag or registry –
Pirates !
Today leading WCPFC
commission members / major
flag states, - increasingly openly
abusing national and tRFMO
rules.
Is this the new face of IUU?
Image of Pacifical and MSC
Survey results
People associate the
Pacifical logo with:
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The Pacific Ocean
Pureness
Natural
Clean
Healthy
Honest
Beauty
People associate the MSC
logo with:
 Sustainability
The peoples of the PNA
Putting PNA on the map - “Fish with a
story”, Geo indicators / MSC eco
labeling /Co branding
Examples of onshore processing in PNA
WE CAN NOT MOVE.
TENKYU TRU
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