Thursday
3 February 2005
4:30-5:30 pm
102 Fishery Sciences
(auditorium)
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David AgnewPrincipal Research Fellow, Renewable Resources Assessment Group, Imperial CollegeIllegal, Unreported, and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing in the AntarcticAre We Winning?
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Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing is one of the hot issues in high seas fisheries management, but it also relates of course to all unregulated extractions of fish from any managed or unmanaged waters. This talk will focus on the Antarctic, where a very valuable fishery for toothfish (Chilean sea bass) has been the target of IUu fishing since the early 1990s. A number of measures have been taken to combat it, including by international and national governments, NGOs and industry. There are some signs that these measures are having an effect, but which has been the most effective? Combatting IUU is still topical, with the establishment of programmes by OECD and a Ministerial Task Force (http://www.high-seas.org/). Lessons learned in the Antarctic should assist with world-wide efforts to eliminate pirate fishing.
Dr David Agnew is a Principal Research Fellow at Imperial College London and Fisheries Director of the fisheries consultancy MRAG Ltd. He manages projects providing fisheries management advice to the South Georgia Government and the Falkland Islands Government. From 1989 to 1996 he was Data Manager with the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources in Hobart, Australia. He has published widely on Antarctic and marine fisheries assessment and management, is a world authority on SW Atlantic fisheries, toothfish and on illegal (IUU) fishing, and has special interest in the implications of international treaties on the management of deep-water and other straddling stocks.