Agree and implement a sub-regional framework Seek agreement to a sub-regional framework of of harvest rights across the full footprint of the harvest rights through regional meetings and southern albacore stock workshops Agree collective implementation arrangements (e.g. management and compliance systems – VDS; proportional shares; trading arrangements) Appoint a secretariat to administer the framework; agree funding streams Agree a harvest strategy to optimise long term Agree common objectives for the management economic returns from the fishery of the fishery (e.g. achieving maximum economic yield) Technical advice provided by SPC/FFA and others where necessary on establishment of management targets and TAE setting Develop and agree a set of harvest control rules designed to achieve management objectives Participating states implementing the management system effectively, including constraining annual catches to within their proportional share of the fishery. Domestic legislation amended to empower new arrangements Regular monitoring and provision of advice on the performance of the fishery against management objectives to support decision making according to control rules Use the establishment of the coastal state Use collective influence of larger coastal state harvest framework to influence more effective alliance to secure more effective management control of high seas fishing of high seas fishing through WCPFC, using compatibility and other provisions. Theme 2: Establishing licence fee benchmarks Strengths Weaknesses Principle of access fees well established Failure of existing licensing systems to optimise the rentals for domestic economies Demand form foreign access partners is very Different free structures in different countries high, providing for high expectations in licence fees Ability of middlemen to extract rentals at cost finances to government Ability of license fee holders to distort their economic woes as a means to effect reduced fees
Agree and implement a sub-regional framework of harvest rights across the full footprint of the southern albacore stock Agree a harvest strategy to optimise long term economic returns from the fishery Use the establishment of the coastal state harvest framework to influence more effective control of high seas fishing Seek agreement to a sub-regional framework of harvest rights through regional meetings and workshops Agree collective implementation arrangements (e.g. management and compliance systems – VDS; proportional shares; trading arrangements) Appoint a secretariat to administer the framework; agree funding streams Agree common objectives for the management of the fishery (e.g. achieving maximum economic yield) Technical advice provided by SPC/FFA and others where necessary on establishment of management targets and TAE setting Develop and agree a set of harvest control rules designed to achieve management objectives Participating states implementing the management system effectively, including constraining annual catches to within their proportional share of the fishery. Domestic legislation amended to empower new arrangements Regular monitoring and provision of advice on the performance of the fishery against management objectives to support decision making according to control rules Use collective influence of larger coastal state alliance to secure more effective management of high seas fishing through WCPFC, using compatibility and other provisions. Theme 2: Establishing licence fee benchmarks Strengths Weaknesses Principle of access fees well established Demand form foreign access partners is very high, providing for high expectations in licence fees Failure of existing licensing systems to optimise the rentals for domestic economies Different free structures in different countries Ability of middlemen to extract rentals at cost to government finances Ability of license fee holders to distort their economic woes as a means to effect reduced fees