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Oceana Submission to the Consultation on the Green Paper on the Reform of the Common Fisheries Policy 18/12/2009
Author: Oceana
This paper was submitted for the consultation on the reform of the EU Common Fisheries Policy from 2012. Key to Oceana's views is that environment and fisheries administrations should work together to ensure the health of Europe's seas.
Oceana's recommendations are:
- Implement the precautionary principle and an ecosystem based approach to fisheries management.
- Ensure a correct management of all fisheries with TACs (Total Allowable Catches), effort controls and technical measures.
- Fisheries in EU waters and by EU vessels should only be carried out if ecologically sustainable management measures are established, based on the best available scientific information.
- As required by the Convention on Biological Diversity, a minimum of 10% of the oceans must be declared as Marine Protected Areas by 2012. The area of marine reserves should be expanded to 20 % to 30% as recommended by the IUCN.
- Restore depleted fish stocks to MSY (Maximum Sustainable Yield) until 2015. Replace MSY as a management objective for fisheries. Manage fisheries under the ecosystem based approach and integrate the precautionary principle.
- Use an integrated approach to manage marine ecosystems aiming at achieving a good environmental status of the oceans.
- Eradicate by-catch and discards in European Union waters and by European Union vessels.
- Eliminate IUU fishing in the EU and by EU vessels. Close the European market for IUU caught fish and seafood; prohibit trade with IUU caught fish.
- Manage the "external element" of the fishing fleet within the Common Fisheries Policy under the aim of protecting oceans biodiversity and rebuilding third countries ocean ecosystems towards a good environmental status of the oceans.
- Eliminate environmental harmful fisheries subsidies and introduce legally binding goals for a substantial capacity reduction of the fleet.
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