In terms of the first question, enforcement is effectuated primarily by port-inspections. Of course, there are supplementary methods, including electronic systems, e.g. VMS, and surveillance/boarding by coastal States, occasionally, on the high seas in the case of some of the RFMOs and through enforcement of the Fish Stocks Agreement. wil
Dr. Wil Burns, Editor in Chief Journal of International Wildlife Law & Policy 1702 Arlington Blvd. El Cerrito, CA 94530 USA Ph: 650.281.9126 Fax: 510.779.5361 <mailto:ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org> ji...@internationalwildlifelaw.org <http://www.jiwlp.com/> http://www.jiwlp.com SSRN site (selected publications): <http://ssrn.com/author=240348> http://ssrn.com/author=240348 Skype ID: Wil.Burns From: gep-ed@googlegroups.com [mailto:gep...@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Peter Haas Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 12:55 PM To: charles.ches...@gmail.com; gep-ed@googlegroups.com Subject: [gep-ed] monitoring fishery quotas I have a related question, that arose in my lecture. How are fishery quotas actually enforced? Who is measuring the fish catch? Are these numbers at all accurate? ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Chester <mailto:charles.ches...@gmail.com> To: gep-ed@googlegroups.com Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 3:52 PM Subject: [gep-ed] Costs of monitoring ocean fisheries Hi everyone, Please excuse the potential naïveté of this question, but Im trying to find out if anyones estimated the total costs of what it would take to effectively monitor global fisheries. Not looking for enforcement estimates, but just what it would cost (1) to improve current extraction estimates and (2) to get a good handle on the actual extent of IUU (illegal, unregulated & underreported) fisheries. In essence, what would it cost to make a fisheries biologist happy? (Dont think about that question for too long....) I blandly told my class today that if we can analogize IUU to a Darth Vader form of monitoring, and if we accept the estimated monetary value of IUU of ~10b (a very sketchy figure), then we might be able to use the costs of IUU (nets, crew, boat maintenance, wifi access, lattes, etc.) as a proxy measure for what it would cost to monitor global fisheries (and assuming a profit, those costs have to be <~$10b). Though I immediately turned to another subject in the hopes that nobody wrote that spurious idea down in their notes, I am still wondering if anyones made the estimates of the actual costs of effective global monitoring. My current guess is that it would far exceed the value of IUU, but its only a guess (kind of depends on the extent of IUUin a perverse sort of way, one would hope that it would far exceed the value of IUU). Please send ideas to me, Ill collate, and then send back out to the list. Thanks, -Charlie ________________ Charles C. Chester 9 Lowell Street Cambridge, MA 02138 617.304.9373 http://www.Y2Y.net http://www.brandeis.edu/environmentalstudies http://www.ConservationClimateChangeClearinghouse.net
