3.1 Status of living resources
3.1.1 Status of Antarctic marine living resources under the
purview of CCAMLR
| Recommendation |
Responsible body |
Activities to date |
Status |
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3.1.1.1 An explicit recovery plan should be established
for stocks that are depleted relative to the requirements of
Article II. This should include recovery targets and time
frames, management actions, and a program to monitor, assess
and regularly report on progress. |
SC |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.7–10.10 |
Scientific Committee – In process – list of depleted species
(Task 2) under way (SC-CAMLR-XXIX,
Annex 8, paragraph 5.186) |
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3.1.1.2 The experience with new or exploratory finfish
fisheries should be reviewed. This should examine the adequacy
of the information available when the fishery is recognised
and initial catch limits are established, the monitoring
requirements for each stage in development, assessment methods
for each stage in development, and expected management
measures for each stage in development. Changes should be made
to the procedures related to new or exploratory fisheries to
address any weaknesses that are found by this Review. |
SC/
Commission |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.7–10.10 |
Scientific Committee: In progress – review of methods for
data-poor exploratory fisheries, SAM/FSA 2011 (SC-CAMLR-XXIX,
para 3.59 and Table 5) |
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3.1.1.3 The categories of fisheries in CCAMLR (e.g.
lapsed fisheries, new or exploratory fisheries, established
fisheries) should be more fully defined and consistently
applied. This includes the criteria, the information and
monitoring requirements, and the elements of the policy, the
default management regime that applies to each category, and
the triggers by which a fishery would be considered to have
moved from one category to another. Elements of the current
management requirements for new or exploratory fisheries
should be considered for application to established fisheries,
and in particular, gear and the use of general and default
limits on by-catch. These categories and requirements should
be applied to all fisheries, including the krill fishery and
by-catch stocks in an established fishery that are being
developed to become new target species. |
SC/
Commission |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraph 10.10.
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Scientific Committee – in progress (Task 4) |
3.1.2 Trends in the status of marine living resources under
the purview of CCAMLR
| Recommendation |
Responsible body |
Activities to date |
Status |
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3.1.2.1 In order to increase the control of IUU
fishing, CCAMLR should (i) introduce mechanisms to ensure that all CPs
comply with the provisions of all CCAMLR CMs (ii) use all
avenues, consistent with international law, to ensure that
NCPs also comply with such measures, and (iii) consider
developing further mechanisms for enhanced surveillance and
enforcement. |
SCIC |
Spain has submitted reports in respect of CM 10-08:
2009(CCAMLR-XXVIII,
paragraph 7.3 and
(2010)CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/37).
Secretariat letters to NCPs since 2008 (see Chapter 5)
Diplomatic demarches to Members.
Proposal for Commission Chair to write to NCPs to seek
permission to board and inspect NCP IUU vessels. |
SCIC – In progress – advanced steps |
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3.1.2.2 Design and agree a strategy for krill fishery
development (e.g. timing, spatial scale and location, catch
limits) and fishery monitoring that explicitly (i) ensures
that adequate information is available to support orderly
development of the fishery while addressing Article II, and
(ii) allows separation of the effects of fishing from climate
change and natural variability. Further, and in an integrated
manner, the monitoring of key dependent predators should be
explicitly designed to (i) aid separation of the effects of
fishing from climate change and natural variability, and (ii)
explicitly link to the ongoing management decisions for krill
fishery development. Consideration should be given to the use
of indicators of predator status in the strategy for krill
fishery development. |
SC |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.8 and 10.11. |
Scientific Committee – In progress – requirements for the
orderly development of the krill fishery. |
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3.1.2.3 Options should be examined to develop and
implement a more comprehensive and consistent monitoring
program for harvested marine living resources under the
purview of CCAMLR. This should aim to allow for the effective
monitoring of the status of the resources, and the status
should be centrally compiled and available for CCAMLR
decision-making. It may be differentially targeted on
species/areas of perceived highest risk, but it should
endeavour to provide wide ecosystem coverage and relate to
management actions that CCAMLR could take. The monitoring
program should consider the need to differentiate the effects
of fishing from the effects of other human activities and from
natural variability (see also recommendation 6 under Criterion
3.1.3). |
SC |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.8 and 10.9. |
Scientific Committee – In progress – CEMP review on EMM’s
agenda. |
3.1.3 Status of species that belong to the same ecosystems
as, or are associated with or dependent upon, targeted Antarctic
marine living resources
3.1.3.1 Direct effects of fishing
3.1.3.2 Indirect effects of fishing due to food-web
interactions
| Recommendation |
Responsible body |
Activities to date |
Status |
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3.1.3.2.1 Options should be examined to develop and
implement a more comprehensive and consistent monitoring
program for non-retained by-catch species (i.e. fish,
elasmobranchs and invertebrates that are directly or
indirectly affected by fishing but that are not commercially
retained). This should aim to allow for the effective
monitoring of the status of these species or groups, and the
status should be centrally compiled and available for CCAMLR
decision-making. Monitoring may be differentially targeted on
species/areas of perceived highest risk, but it should
endeavour to provide wide ecosystem coverage and relate to
management actions that CCAMLR could take. The monitoring
program should consider the need to differentiate the effects
of fishing from the effects of other human activities and from
natural variability. Consideration should be given to
mechanisms that can ensure an ongoing monitoring program to
meet CCAMLR’s requirements, including mechanisms that reduce
the reliance and focus on funding and interests of individual
Members. As appropriate, this monitoring program should be
collaborative with other elements of the ATS and with the
activities of those States that have national jurisdiction
within parts of the Convention Area. |
SC |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.5 and 10.7. |
Scientific Committee – In progress – Year-of-the-Skate.
Monitoring of impacts of bottom trawling. |
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3.1.3.2.2 By-catch management measures of the kind
applied to new or exploratory fisheries and to developed
fisheries in some areas should be reviewed, further developed
as appropriate, and applied consistently to all fishing
including krill fishing. |
SC/SCIC |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.5 and 10.7. |
Scientific Committee – In progress – done for exploratory
fisheries not for krill. |
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3.1.3.2.3 Better coordination and planning with SCAR
and the Parties to the Antarctic Treaty regarding data
requirements for monitoring and research, information
reporting and sharing, analysis and appropriate management
responses. |
Commission |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.12 and 10.13.
SCAR paper (2010)CCAMLR-XXIX/BG/15
Annual Report From SCAR To CCAMLR
proposes joint CCAMLR/SCAR action group.
CEP/SC workshop and agreement to move forward. |
Commission - In progress – advanced steps |
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3.1.3.2.4 Improved formal coordination through a
Memorandum of Understanding, or similar agreement, with the
2001 ACAP to address issues such as coherent management inside
and outside the Convention Area. |
Commission |
(2009)CCAMLR-XXVIII,
paragraph 15.12. |
Complete |
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3.1.3.2.5 CPs should use all legal avenues available to
reduce and ideally eliminate the incidental mortality of
seabirds, especially albatrosses and giant petrels in the
Convention Area and in other areas where seabirds from the
Convention Area occur. Further reduction, and ideally
elimination, of IUU fishing in the Convention Area, and
relevant areas outside the Convention Area, will make a
significant contribution to this. |
Members |
French paper
(2009)CCAMLR-XXVIII/34
Evaluation of the conformity of French
law and practice with CCAMLR conservation measures –
Cooperation with RFMOs in relation to CAMLR Convention Area.
MOUs with WCPFC and ACAP. |
Commission - In progress |
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3.1.3.2.6 Further examine, develop and agree methods to
link monitoring information from dependent species to fishery
management decision procedures, especially the procedures for
determining the location and size of the krill catch. Ensure
that these procedures have a high probability of satisfying
the requirements of Article II. |
SC/ Commission |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.5, 10.10 and 10.11. |
Scientific Committee – In progress – SSMUs work was
progressing until 2009. Feedback management (Task 2). |
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3.1.3.2.7 Review, and as necessary revise, CEMP to
ensure that it can support the application of these procedures
and other management decision-making processes in order to
achieve the objectives of Article II. Consider approaches to
fishery development and monitoring that will allow separation
of the effects of fishing and natural variability, or at least
that have a demonstrably high probability of achieving the
objectives of Article II in spite of not being able to
separate these two effects. |
SC |
(2008)SC-CAMLR-XXVII, paragraphs 10.2 and 10.10;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII/7;
(2009)SC-CAMLR-XXVIII, paragraphs 10.7 and 10.8. |
Scientific Committee - In progress – review of CEMP |
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