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Other countries will model USOther countries are on board with international efforts to limit fishingAgence France-Presse March 14, 2014 10:36am, Global powers sign declaration on sustainable fishing, http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/140314/global-powers-sign-declaration-sustainable-fishing Officials from some of the world's top fishing powers signed a declaration in Greece on Friday to promote sustainable management of fish stocks. The signatories -- the EU, United States, Japan, Philippines, Colombia and Indonesia -- pledged to support measures to address fishing overcapacity. These include developing international fishing vessel records, limiting the number of licenses and vessel tonnage and eliminating fisheries subsidies that contribute to overcapacity and overfishing. "We bear responsibility for the conservation of living marine resources and thus for addressing overcapacity when it undermines conservation and sustainability objectives," the statement said. The event was organised in Thessaloniki under Greece's rotating EU presidency. According to the European Commission, the EU imports 70 percent of its fish intake. Overall, the bloc accounts for a fourth of the world's seafood resources. Some progress has been made. In 2013, 25 stocks were fished sustainably in the North Sea and Atlantic, five times more than in 2009, the European Commission says. This is expected to increase to 31 stocks in 2015. But environmental group Greenpeace stressed that more action is needed. "EU countries should start by scrapping the largest and most destructive industrial fishing vessels, initiating a shift towards small-scale low-impact fishing, which is more environmentally sustainable, creates jobs and supports local communities," the group said in a statement. The organisation's oceans policy advisor Sebastian Losada added: "Better management of fishing capacity is critical and long overdue. Governments must ensure that excess fishing capacity is removed and not just dispatched to new fishing grounds." EU Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Commissioner Maria Damanaki conceded in an online article this week that enforcing compliance by states has been a "struggle". "To achieve the right balance between fishing power and natural resources, all global actors need to pull together," she wrote in a Huffington Post article. But she noted that scrapping fishing vessels piecemeal was not in itself an answer to the problem. "The solution must be a well-designed mix of structural and conservation tools, rights-based management systems, tighter controls and, especially, incentives for diversification," Damanaki said in the article, jointly written with former World Trade Organisation director-general Pascal Lamy and South African national planning minister Trevor Manuel. Over 20% of the earth’s fish resources are in US waters- the US is seen as a leader in international fisheries management and enforcementAdmiral Thomas H. Collins, Commandant, U.S. Coast Guard in 2003, [Senate Hearing 108-971] [From the U.S. Government Printing Office] S. Hrg. 108-971 GLOBAL OVERFISHING AND INTERNATIONAL FISHERIES MANAGEMENT, http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/CHRG-108shrg85979/html/CHRG-108shrg85979.htm ``Fish do not recognize international boundaries'' is an oft-quoted phrase in the fisheries management and enforcement business, and the Coast Guard is directly engaged with enforcement agencies in Canada, Mexico, the Russian Federation, Japan, South Korea, the People's Republic of China and many other nations to promote sustainability through compliance with regulations and management regimes. Our efforts include enforcement Memoranda of Understanding, fisheries enforcement workshops, ship rider agreements, joint operations, and boarding officer training. In an action plan on the Marine Environment and Tanker Safety prepared last week at the G-8 Summit in Evian, France, G- 8 leaders, led by President Bush, pledged to work towards sustainable fisheries and marine conservation. I would like to share with you a success story in international cooperation and effective enforcement. In 1991, the United Nations declared an international moratorium on the use of large-scale (greater than 2.5 kilometers in length) pelagic high seas driftnets. Since that time, the U.S. Coast Guard, NOAA Fisheries, the Canadian Department of Fisheries and Oceans, the Russian Federal Border Service, the People's Republic of China Bureau of Fisheries, and the Fisheries Agency of Japan have worked together to all but eliminate high seas driftnet fishing in the North Pacific. Our closely coordinated efforts have resulted in Russian officers staffing a joint command center in Alaska, Chinese enforcement officers sailing on U.S. Coast Guard cutters, and NOAA Fisheries agents flying in Canadian Air Force surveillance planes. These countries are also members of the North Pacific Heads of Coast Guard organization that I personally participate in. The North Pacific Heads of Coast Guard, recognizing the importance of fisheries, recently implemented a Fisheries Working Group to meet regularly and discuss fisheries issues of regional interest. The Coast Guard's fisheries law enforcement strategic plan OCEAN GUARDIAN, stipulates that our highest priority enforcement mission is to prevent encroachment of the U.S. EEZ and internal waters by foreign fishing vessels. The Plan also emphasizes ensuring compliance with international agreements for the management of living marine resources such as the United Nations Driftnet Moratorium. Fisheries enforcement, particularly enforcement of international fisheries management schemes, is a mission largely conducted by Coast Guard Deepwater assets. The U.S. EEZ is the largest and most productive in the world. It occupies 3.36 million square miles and includes 95,000 miles of coastline. It contains an estimated 20 percent of the world's fishery resources. These vast patrol areas, coupled with the long distance from U.S. shores--for example the non-contiguous EEZ in the central Pacific--provide a significant challenge to the Coast Guard's assets. As fish stocks throughout the world dwindle and the fleets of distant water fishing nations are being pushed farther from home and into the high seas in search of catch, the bounty of our EEZ becomes a more attractive quarry. The improved capabilities the Coast Guard will garner and the technology we will have available to leverage as a result of the Integrated Deepwater System project will greatly enhance our ability to enforce international fisheries regulations in the U.S. EEZ and beyond. The world is becoming more aware of the need to ensure the sustainability of our collective fish stocks. At the same time, the United States is becoming increasingly involved in the management of living marine resources on the high seas. Naturally, this means the Coast Guard will become even more involved in the enforcement of agreements to which the U.S. is a party. In the past, international policies governing the conservation of high seas fisheries fell well short of their goals because they lacked any effective enforcement provisions. However, in 1995, a landmark agreement, the Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks Agreement established the framework for all future international fishery regimes. This agreement calls for strict adherence with fishery conservation measures and, more importantly, contains non-flag state enforcement provisions that allow the Coast Guard to board foreign fishing vessels flagged by any nation party to any mutual international fishing agreement. The Agreement entered into force on December 11, 2001. The US has more power over ocean policy than other nations- only US leadership can get other countries on board with fishing managementThe Washington Post 6/22/2014, Our survival depends on the health of the oceans, http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/our-survival-depends-on-the-health-of-the-oceans/2014/06/22/2c0acd0a-f72e-11e3-a3a5-42be35962a52_story.html HUMANITY DEPENDS on the oceans, but their worsening state gets little attention. Good for Secretary of State John F. Kerry, then, for trying to elevate the issue last week in an international oceans conference in Washington. The conference produced a billion dollars in pledges for ocean programs, promises from other nations to better protect their marine ecosystems and the news that President Obama will set aside a vast portion of U.S. waters in the central Pacific for ecological conservation. That’s all to the good. But the health of the oceans — sources of employment, recreation and food for billions — depends on what Mr. Kerry and those like him can get other nations to do. Mr. Obama’s plan is to protect nearly 700,000 square miles of Pacific habitat adjacent to islands and atolls the United States controls. Because the president has authority to preserve precious natural land- and aqua-scapes, and because the United States controls more of the planet’s oceans than anyone else, Mr. Obama is perhaps the person on the planet with the most power to protect the seas with a stroke of a pen. The White House will solicit feedback over the next few months, after which Mr. Obama might amend his ocean plan. But, like Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush before him, Mr. Obama should not shrink from using his powers to preserve pristine ecological treasures. Even with the preservation of some habitat, though, people will need to do a better job of managing the exploitation of ocean resources that will continue. According to a 2012 analysis from California Environmental Associates, “over 40 percent of fisheries have crashed or are overfished, producing economic losses in excess of $50 billion per year.” Some 80 percent of the world’s catch is pulled in from unmonitored fisheries. Desperate fishermen, many in developing countries, are spending more time and traveling further to catch fewer fish. About two-thirds of unmonitored stocks could provide more fish on a sustainable basis — with the right oversight. The United States has gone a long way to fixing its regulation, deploying a system that gives fishermen ownership interests in the long-term health of their fisheries. This model could work in many other places, if those nations could enforce the rules on which the system depends. The United States can and should help other governments develop this capacity, though it ultimately will be up to foreign leaders to act in their nations’ best interest. The US should lead by example- past conservation measures prove modelingSutton in 07, director of the Monterey Bay Aquarium's conservation program: the Center for the Future of the Oceans Read more at http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-interview_mike_sutton.html#lsV0DZbh3dWVF3dP.99 How to save the world's oceans from overfishing An interview with the Monterey Bay Aquarium's Mike Sutton Rhett A. Butler, mongabay.com July 9, 2007 http://news.mongabay.com/2007/0709-interview_mike_sutton.html#lsV0DZbh3dWVF3dP.99 Mongabay: So, is the idea then to have the United States lead by example? If we have sound sustainable policy, then in theory that would influence policy in other places? Sutton: I think that is part of it, yes. The US has always prided itself as a leader in conservation and science. We've believe that if it's done right here other places will want to emulate us as they have our national park system. I think that's by in large been the case. Take California for example. In the last couple of years, we've seen a lot of progress in ocean conservation. The Governor [Arnold Schwarzenegger] turned out to be a great champion of the ocean. He has signed legislation and appointed key people to various state bodies. He is really batting almost a thousand on ocean issues and wants to leave an ocean legacy. As a result, California has done far more than the federal government in the last few years for oceans, and California is also a good model for the other states. When the Governor of Oregon saw what Governor Schwarzenegger was doing here, he wrote a letter to his ocean policy advisory council and said, "I want to do the same thing. 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