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Graficos Deep Sea
Graficos Deep Sea
Fish stocks
Merete Tandstad
FAO
Overview of presentation:
1. Main fishing areas globally
2. Main species and regional variations
3. Vessels and gears
4. Catch Trends
5. Addressing impacts
6. Concluding remarks
Major Deep-sea
Fisheries Areas N & S Pacific and
Indian Ocean
Main Species
Gear types
20
15
10
5
0
the Cook Islands
Spain
France
Estonia
Japan
Korea
10000000
8000000
tonnes
6000000
4000000
2000000
2008
2006
2004
2002
2000
1998
1996
1994
1992
1990
1988
1986
1984
1982
1980
1978
1976
1974
1972
1970
1968
1966
1964
1962
1960
1958
1956
1954
1952
1950
orange roughy
100 000
90 000
80 000
150000
70 000
60 000
50 000
40 000
100000
30 000
20 000
10 000
0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
50000
Indian Ocean
0
1975 1978 1981 1984 1987 1990 1993 1996 1999 2002 2005 2008
Atlantic Ocean
toothfis hes
40 000
35 000
pelagic armo
urhead
alfons inos
16 000
14 000
12 000
1 400
25 000
1 200
20 000
15 000
1 000
10 000
10 000
800
8 000
5 000
600
6 000
4 000
400
2 000
200
0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Indian Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
30 000
0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Indian Ocean
0
1975 1980 1985 1990 1995 2000 2005
Indian Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Ocean
Environmental concerns
1. Target species
Sustainability (in
relation to
abundance, life
history traits and
life cycle)
2. Bycatch species
Sustainability (in
relation to
abundance and
life history traits)
3. Ecosystem
structure
& functioning
Direct and
indirect impacts
on ecosystem
structure and
functioning
Socio-Economic
Wellbeing
Ability to Achieve
Administration Governance
Community
Target Species
Socio economic
By
catchNational
and
at 2 different
Impact oflevels
External
impacts
both
Non Retained
Environment
protected
species
Natural and human induced
General
Habitat impacts
Ecosystem
Trophic Changes
Retained
trawling
1.80
3.13
3.88
3.88
3.64
3.57
3.18
K. Sainsbury,
2009
3.61
Some Issues
Assessing problems with implementation of the
Guidelines
EIAs, risk assessments, VME identification, mitigation measures,
Opportunities
Working with industry to improve data and information, stimulate
exchange of lessons learned, VME database, species identification
guides, and data collection protocols