Joint eNGO Briefing Paper for the 11th Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organisation from 13-17 February 2023
SUBMISSION TO SPRFMO Bottom Fishing Intersessional Working Group Participant Questionnaire
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Briefing Paper for the 9th Meeting of the Compliance and Technical Commission and the 10th Meeting of the Commission of the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management Organization
Online from 19 – 22, 24 – 28 January 2022
Papers submitted
- Watling and Auster (2021). Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems, Communities, and Indicator Species: Confusing Concepts for Conservation of Seamounts
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- Currie and Weeber (2021) The Precautionary Approach and Ecosystem Approach in the context of Prevention of Significant Adverse Impacts on Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems
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Authors: Katrina Goddard, Karli Thomas, Barry Weeber
Together with Greenpeace Aotearoa, WWF-NZ, Forest and Bird, LegaSea, New Zealand Sport Fishing Council, Our Seas Our Future, and Environment and Conservation Organisations of Aotearoa New Zealand (ECO), the DSCC is calling on the New Zealand government to ban bottom trawling on seamounts.
Continue reading REPORT: Save deep sea corals- ban bottom trawling on seamounts
The Deep Sea Conservation Coalition’s (DSCC) 2020 Report informs on Fisheries, Deep Seabed Mining and Ocean Governance.
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Seamounts are fragile and biologically diverse marine ecosystems that are vulnerable to deep-sea fisheries activities and, increasingly, other human impacts.
This briefing examines the current state of seamount science and protection. It summarizes who continues to fish in these unique habitats and presents a case for urgent and intensified political action to protect these biodiversity hotspots.
- Available in English.
The 9th Meeting of the SPRFMO Commission and 8th Compliance and Technical Committee Meeting are to be held remotely from 21 January-3 February 2021.
Briefing Paper
Interventions:
Authors: Susanna Fuller, Duncan Currie, Matthew Gianni, Lyn Goldsworthy, Cassandra Rigby, Kathryn Schleit, Colin Simpfendorfer, Les Watling, Barry Weeber.
16 years have passed since the UNGA first called for States and RFMOs “urgently to adopt … conservation and management measures, in accordance with international law, to address the impact of destructive fishing practices.
This report by the Deep Sea Conservation Coalition (DSCC) reviews the progress made since 2016 and makes recommendations on what more should be done to ensure that both individual high-seas fishing nations and regional fisheries management organizations (RFMOs) fully implement the actions called for in UNGA Resolutions 61/105, 64/72, 66/68 and 71/123. It is the latest in a series produced by the DSCC that have been published in advance of the formal reviews conducted by the UNGA.
Although the UNGA review workshop scheduled for August 2020 was postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the information in this report is relevant to RFMO Commission and Scientific Committee meetings taking place over the next 12 months and will help inform the UNGA workshop when it is rescheduled. All documents are available only in English.
- Preventing biodiversity loss in the deep sea – SUMMARY REPORT (PDF)
- FULL ANNEX: Detailed review of actions taken by RFMOs and in the Southwest Atlantic (PDF)
- Annex Sections by RFMO:
- Section 1: Northeast Atlantic – NEAFC (PDF)
- Section 2: Northwest Atlantic – NAFO (PDF)
- Section 3: Southeast Atlantic – SEAFO (PDF)
- Section 4: Indian Ocean – SIOFA (PDF)
- Section 5: Southwest Atlantic and other non-RFMO areas (PDF)
- Section 6: North Pacific – NPFC (PDF)
- Section 7: South Pacific – SPRFMO (PDF)
- Section 8: Southern Ocean – CCAMLR (PDF)
- Section 9: Mediterranean Sea – GFCM (PDF)
- Annex Sections by RFMO:
The SC8 meeting, hosted by New Zealand, is being held remotely from 3 to 8 October 2020. The Chairperson of the SC is Dr Jim Ianelli (USA) and the Vice Chairperson is Mr Niels Hintzen (EU). All official meeting documents and other relevant information can be found on the SPRFMO SC8 webpage.
Presentations to Deep Water Working Group
- Bottom Trawling: Is CMM 03-2020 Appropriate? by Duncan Currie / DSCC
- Seamounts, VMEs, and Spatial Management | by Les Watling & Peter J. Auster
Presentations to the Scientific Committee
- Bottom Trawling Under CMM 03-2020 | Duncan Currie / DSCC
DSCC Interventions
- Intervention to SPRFMO 8th SC Meeting – October 2