Satellite-Based Vessel Monitoring Systems for Fisheries Management: International Legal Aspects

2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
E.J. Molenaar ◽  
M. Tsamenyi
2000 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-109 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik Jaap Molenaar ◽  
Martin Tsamenyi

AbstractSatellite-based vessel monitoring systems (VMS) are a relatively new technology that assist fisheries management authorities in data-gathering and ensuring compliance with management objectives. In comparison with traditional means of data-gathering and monitoring, control and surveillance (MCS), satellite-based VMS offer considerable advantages in cost-effectiveness, especially if applied at the regional level. Before opting for a satellite-based VMS, however, fisheries management authorities should realise that a number of limitations exist, that it may not be the most cost-effective in all circumstances and that the issue of the confidentiality and security of information will be crucial to co-operation and compliance. The main focus of the article are the relevant rights and obligations of states under international law. The analysis concludes, among other things, that significant legal restrictions exist in the exercise of jurisdiction by port and coastal states with respect to foreign fishing vessels in lateral passage, conditions for entry into port and foreign vessels engaged in bunkering of fishing vessels.


2012 ◽  
Vol 9 (3-4) ◽  
pp. 257-284 ◽  
Author(s):  
Till Markus ◽  
Markus Salomon

The Common Fisheries Policy (CFP) is one of the longest standing, most integrated, and at the same time one of the most criticised of the European Union’s policies. Despite continued efforts to improve the CFP, its failure to manage stocks at economically and environmentally sustainable levels continues to threaten the functioning and legitimacy of EU fisheries legislation. All branches of the CFP have recently been or are currently put under revision. In particular, in July 2011, the European Commission issued a reform package consisting of a proposal for new basic regulation, a reformed market organisation, and a discussion of perspectives on the EU’s external fisheries policies. This article uses the central failings of the CFP as reference points for inquiring into the potential of the reform proposals to improve EU fisheries governance. Pertinent political and legal aspects of the CFP are explained, analysed, and aligned with steps necessary to achieve sustainable fisheries management.


2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 101
Author(s):  
Suherman Banon Atmaja ◽  
Duto Nugroho

Pengertian dasar untuk pengelolaan perikanan terkait dengan fungsi fungsi biologi, sosial, teknologi, ekonomi serta lingkungan sumber daya sebagai komponen yang saling berhubungan untuk terjaminnya pengelolaan secara berkelanjutan. Stok ikan, ekosistem dan masyarakat nelayan merupakan salah satu kesatuan yang tidak dapat dipisahkan dalam sistem yang dinamis, dimana perubahan taktik dan strategi pemanfaatan masih merupakan suatu hal yang banyak dilakukan dalam rangka penyesuaian antara faktor teknis dan ekonomis yang sering kali mengabaikan pertimbangan bio-ekologi sumberdaya ikan. Sasaran pendekatan dan kebijakan pengelolaan perikanan di berbagai negara sudah mulai berubah, diawali dengan pendekatan memaksimalkan tangkapan tahunan dan ketenaga-kerjaan menuju ke konservasi dan pengelolaan berbasis pelayanan ekosistem. Konsep pengelolaan berbasis masyarakat dan ko-manajemen masih terbatas pada pengelolaan kawasan konservasi dan habitat terumbu karang. Adanya kesenjangan dan perbedaan antara kepentingan kawasan konservasi sebagai akibat kurangnya pemahaman kolektif terhadap tujuan pengelolaan, dan kerapkali menyebabkan aktifitas perikanan tangkap sebagai bagian dari kebutuhan ekonomis berbenturan dengan fungsi kawasan konservasi dalam jangka panjang. Pengendalian upaya penangkapan dan memahami dinamika perikanan, serta mengelola nelayan menjadi prioritas untuk pengelolaan sumber daya ikan, sedangkan konsep pengelolaan berbasis masyarakat dan ko-manajemen ditempatkan sebagai pelengkap untuk menutupi kelemahan aspek legal wilayah pengelolaan perikanan atau sumber daya ikan.Basic understanding of fisheries management related to biology, social, technology and economic function of fish resources. Fish stocks, ecosystem and fishers community are the integrated component under the dynamic of fisheries system, where as changing and on fishing tactic and strategy still exist to adjust between biology, technics and economics aspects. It is obvious that all technological creeps oftenly ignored the bio-ecological consideration of fish resources. The fisheries management and its policy were gradually shifting from maximize the catch, job opportunity become conservation and ecosystem based fisheries management. The concept of community-based management and co management is still limited to the management of conservation areas and coral reef habitats. The existence of gaps and differences between the interests of the conservation area as a result of a lack of understanding collective to the management objectives and often causing fishing activities as part of the economic needs clash with the function of conservation areas in the long term. Control efforts to capture and understand the dynamics of fisheries, as well as managing fishing is a priority for the management of fish resources, while the concept of community-based management and co management issued as a supplement to cover the weakness of legal aspects of the fishery management area or fishery resource.


2014 ◽  
Vol 71 (9) ◽  
pp. 1363-1370 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shui-Kai Chang ◽  
Tzu-Lun Yuan

Estimating geo-referenced fishing effort is vital to develop advice for effective fisheries management. Many studies in recent decades have attempted to obtain complete, high-resolution effort data from vessel monitoring systems (VMSs). The main challenge in this regard is to develop a classification method for differentiating fishing activities (e.g., fishing days) from nonfishing activities in VMS data. This study developed a simple, novel classification criterion for a large-scale tuna longline (LTLL) fishery that has not been studied before. LTLL operations were first explored using observer data. Three approaches were designed for developing fishing-day classification criteria, using maximizing sum of sensitivity and specificity (SS) as the major performance measure and minimizing difference of SS as a reference. At least one VMS report with speed in the range of 2–5 kn (1 kn = 1.852 km·h–1) detected during the time-of-day period of 14:00–23:00 h was recommended as the criterion for defining a fishing day. Possible explanations for the differences between the estimated fishing days from VMS data and those reported on logbooks are discussed; most causes were related to specific features of the fishery.


1974 ◽  
Vol 31 (12) ◽  
pp. 1965-1981 ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter C. Thompson

The management of the Canadian fisheries is under the authority of both federal and provincial governments. While it is common to the Canadian confederation that both levels of government have dual roles in many areas of Canadian life, the situation with respect to the fisheries tends to be more complicated in the intricacies of federal–provincial jurisdiction. The result has led at times to a genuine confusion as to the management prerogatives over the Canadian fisheries.In order to manage the resource it is considered requisite to have an understanding of the legislative prerogatives of the federal and provincial agencies responsible for Canadian fisheries. Such an understanding will serve to outline institutional constraints imposed upon fisheries managers.This paper examines a unique aspect of the fisheries resource that being the nature of the governmental responsibilities in the management of the fisheries. This is achieved through the examination of the evolution of the Canadian federation, the constitution, the legal aspects of the fisheries, and the leading judicial decisions on Canadian fisheries.


Fisheries ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 (3) ◽  
pp. 41-46
Author(s):  
Kamil Bekyashev ◽  
Damir Bekyashev

The article examines the legal status of the FAO Committee on Fisheries and assesses the prospects for its development. The legal nature and competence of the two sub-committees of the FAO Committee on Fisheries, the Sub-Committee on Fish Trade and the Sub-Committee on Aquaculture, are analyzed in detail. The question of the feasibility of creating a new subcommittee on fisheries management and the legal aspects of its establishment was considered. The results of the last – 34th session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries were summed up and its importance for the development of international legal fisheries management was determined.


1983 ◽  
Author(s):  
A Berman ◽  
◽  
R. Cohen-Sandler

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