Managing Fish as a ResourceUnsustainable

Fishing?• The United Nations

estimates that 80% of world fish stocks are fully exploited or overfished and require precautionary management.

• In the last five decades world fish supply has outpaced global population growth.

• Globally, fish provides about 3 billion people with almost 20% of their intake of animal protein, and 4.3 billion with about 15% of such protein.

AQUACULTURE: THE CULTIVATION OF AQUATIC PLANTS AND ANIMALS FOR FOOD. (Farming in the water!!!!)

Inland and marine aquaculture production has been growing at an unprecedented rate.

With global population set to expand the proportion of fish sourced from fish farms is set to increase dramatically.

In 2008 fish continued to be the most-trade food commodity (UN) worth £63bn.

In 2011 a UN report showed that most stocks of the top 10 commercial species were fully exploited and a threat to the long-term sustainability of global fish stocks.

In the Bering Sea during the 1980s stocks of Pollack had reached a sustainable two million tonnes. But the emergence of industrial scale fishing fleets from China, Japan, Poland and Korea lead to the complete collapse of the resource.

In December 2009, the U.S. closed nearly the entire U.S. Arctic Ocean to any further commercial fishing in an attempt to maintain the health of the ecosystem and the people who depend on it.

Fishing in the EU

Sustainable Management?

Setting the Scene

New funding has become available from the EU for policies promoting sustainable development.

You are representing the Community Fisheries Control Agency.

It is your task to bid for the new funding for the CFP. Why should your ideas receive the additional money?

The Task

You must argue your case by providing the following:• Background to the CFP.• Why is the CFP important?• What makes your ideas sustainable?• Why should you receive the funding?

Make sure you include some facts and figures to back up your argument.

The EU High Commissioner and team will be listening to all teams and deciding who gets the money. You will need to talk for 5 minutes about your ideas and include the terms from the list on the next slide.

Key Terms to Include in your Argument• Total Allowable Catch (TAC)• Quota• Minimum landing size• Fishing effort• Regeneration rates• Balanced demand• Ecosystem approach• Sustainable

Do not just regurgitate the information from the hand-outs. Use your time to investigate alternative schemes that hit the ‘sustainability’ mark. Extra credit will be awarded for innovative and unique ideas, plus the communication skills of your team.

The 2014 Reforms• Ban on DISCARDING in pelagic

fisheries (pelagic just refers to a part of the sea that is not near the shore or bottom – in this situation if means mackerel or herring fisheries) from 1 January 2015. Further ban on discards in other fisheries from January 2016-2019.

• A legally binding contract to fish at SUSTAINABLE LEVELS. Maximum sustainable yield should be obtained by 2015 where possible, and 2020 at the latest.

• DECENTRALISING decision-making so that member states can agree measures appropriate to their fisheries rather than being managed by Brussels.

Maximum

sustainable yield –

the level at which

fish stocks can be

routinely exploited

without long term

depletion

End of Unit Test

For one named resource, evaluate the success of attempts to develop it to ensure sustainability. (30 marks)