Fisherman's Code of Conduct
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1 RESPECT NATURE and your place in it. 2 SEEK ADVICE of experts with generational knowledge of the local resources. 3 SHOW REGARD to spawning seasons and juvenile fish. 4 DO NOT WASTE. Take only what is needed. 5 KEEP SAFE people, property and resources. 6 OBEY fishing laws and rules. 7 USE PROPER gear and techniques. 8 PICK UP YOUR TRASH. 9 SHARE your catch. www.wpcouncil.org www.ahamoku.org Keeping Seafood Sustainable… We Are Leading the Way 1991 First limited entry pelagic fishery 1991 First pelagic fishery requiring daily logbooks 1994 First fishery requiring vessel tracking using satellite technology 2004 First Pacific fishery with a fleet limit on sea turtle interactions www.fishersforum.net www.wpcouncil.org Hawaiian Islands Johnston Atoll Wake Midway Guam Northern Mariana Islands Howland & Baker Islands Kingman Reef Palmyra Island Jarvis Island American Samoa Ecosystem-based Management of Fisheries in the US Pacific Islands A Global Model for Sustaining Pelagic Fisheries THE PACIFIC OCEAN provides the majority of the world’s tuna. In the Western and Central Pacific Ocean alone, tuna catches in 2010 were valued at US $4 billion. One tuna fishery in the Pacific stands out as a global model for sustainable pelagic fisheries– the Hawaii longline fishery. The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Manage- ment Council manages and monitors the Hawaii longline fishery, along with those based in American Samoa and the Mariana Islands. The management regime directly involves the longline industry, whose high-grade tuna and swordfish have led Honolulu to consistently place as one of the nation’s top 10 fishing ports in landed value. Management measures developed by the Council sustain fisheries and fish stocks while protecting the ecosystem.
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The Fisherman's Code of Conduct, A Globel Model for Sustaining Pelagic Fisheries
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1 RESPECT NATURE and your place in it.
2 SEEK ADVICE of experts with generational knowledge of the local resources.
3 SHOW REGARD to spawning seasons and juvenile fish.
4 DO NOT WASTE. Take only what is needed.
5 KEEP SAFE people, property and resources.
6 OBEY fishing laws and rules.
7 USE PROPER gear and techniques.
8 PICK UP YOUR TRASH.
9 SHARE your catch.
www.wpcouncil.org www.ahamoku.org
Keeping Seafood Sustainable… We Are Leading the Way1991 First limited entry pelagic fishery
1991 First pelagic fishery requiring daily logbooks
1994 First fishery requiring vessel tracking using satellite technology
2004 First Pacific fishery with a fleet limit on sea turtle interactions
www.fishersforum.netwww.wpcouncil.org
HawaiianIslands
JohnstonAtoll
Wake
Midway
Guam
NorthernMarianaIslands
Howland &Baker Islands
Kingman Reef Palmyra Island
Jarvis Island
AmericanSamoa
Ecosystem-based Management of Fisheries in the US Pacific Islands
A Global Model for Sustaining Pelagic Fisheries THE PACIFIC OCEAN provides the
majority of the world’s tuna. In the Western and Central Pacific Ocean alone, tuna catches in 2010 were valued at US $4 billion.
One tuna fishery in the Pacific stands out as a global model for sustainable pelagic fisheries– the Hawaii longline fishery.
The Western Pacific Regional Fishery Manage-ment Council manages and monitors the Hawaii longline fishery, along with those based in American Samoa and the Mariana Islands. The management regime directly involves the longline industry, whose high-grade tuna and swordfish have led Honolulu to consistently place as one of the nation’s top 10 fishing ports in landed value. Management measures developed by the Council sustain fisheries and fish stocks while protecting the ecosystem.
