Benefiting from Innovations in Sustainable and Equitable Management of Trans-boundary Tuna in the Western Pacific

Dr. Simon Bush

16th National Tuna Congress, 4-5 Sept. 2014 General Santos

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Programme question

PUBLIC

PRIVATE

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PARTNERSHIPS FOR

GOVERNING TRANSBOUNDARY

TUNA

BENEFITS BENEFITS

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Programme objectives

1. Understand social and ecological interactions in tuna fisheries

2. Design of effective and equitable governance arrangements to achieve sustainable tuna management

3. Develop an effective global long-term science-governance network for sustainable tuna fisheries in the Western Pacific

4. Mobilise knowledge about tuna ecology, tuna fisheries behaviour, and tuna fisheries management and governance

Research areas

What partnerships in global value chains?

How do tuna interact with FADs?

What kinds of state-market partnerships?

What private-led initiatives?

What are the informational needs and strategies for sustainable tuna fisheries?

BESTTuna Consortium

International advisory board Research consortium Extended research network

Industry and policy partners

CSIRO World Bank

Kagoshima Uni

SPC

PNA

Murdoch Uni. ANCORS

UC Santa Barbara

IRD

ISSF

Pacifical bv

Anova Seafoods bv

Indo. Tuna Committee

Bogor University

University of the South Pacific

WWF Coral Triangle Programme

University of the Philippines. (Visayas and Mindanao)

Wageningen University ENP, AFI, ENR, BEC

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STATE/COMMUNITY IFISH DATABASE

DATA MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES

PRIVATE ENUMERATION

Case 1: Information rich traceability

Incentives for public-private data collection for tuna fisheries?

Generate information flows that are of a high enough quality, timely, accessible and understandable

2. UPLOAD INFO 1. CODE THE CATCH

3. HANDLE + SHIP 4. TRACE TO DISCOVER

Discover the story of your seafood

Timely, high quality data

iFISH

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Case 2: Fishery improvement projects

‘Value chain approach’ for delivering incentives

Public-private support to improved fisheries use and management

Different models: NGO-led, company-led

Oriented towards MSC certification

Photos Frazen Tolentino

Case 2: Mindoro tuna FIP

Fisher organisation (PPPST) aiming for MSC certification

Research shows other incentives are evident

Double role of Casas

FIPs are varied, local conditions key to success

MSC provides a framework, but not the only goal

Retailers

Exporters

CASAS

PPPST

Fishers Fishers Fishers

Consumers

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Frazen Tolentino

Case 3: MSC certification of PNA tuna

PNA members and Sustunable BV MSC certified free school purse seine 2011 Globally significant – 25% of world tuna

Case 3: MSC certification of PNA tuna

What is the pay-off for greater cooperation between PNA countries?

What is the pay-off for (Filipino) companies?

What is hindering the flow of certified tuna to the market?

Partial overall impact ...

Agnes Yeeting, Steven Adolf

Looking forward

Public-private partnerships increasing in tuna industry Private sector gradually taking up responsibilities and

need to engage with government Governments remain backbone of decision making and

needs to draw on the potential of private initiatives

FAILURE? SUCCESS OR

www.besttuna.org

Daghang Salamat!

A call for cooperation!

Thumbs Up and Down by Mister Pixel Tuna by Mallory Hawes Hands by Marco Galtarossa Income by Doug Cavendish From the The Noun Project