REBUILDING FISHERIES © OECD 2012

• Main Author: Southern Bluefin Tuna
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Greenland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.643.4847; http://www.oecd.org/tad/fisheries/Southern Bluefin tuna.pdf

Effective rebuilding of international fisheries is one of the major challenges of fisheries management, and it is recognised that joint effort is required to ensure sustainable fisheries for highly migratory and transboundary stocks. Two Regional Fisheries Management Organization (RFMO) rebuilding plans are described in this section, namely the Southern Bluefin Tune managed under the auspices of the Commission for Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna (CCSBT) and Greenland Halibut, under the North Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). These cases reveal that the issues identified in COFI’s publication on Strengthening Regional Fisheries Management Organizations are also a factor during the rebuilding process. Specifically, ― … lack of political will, disparate national agendas, divergent economic priorities, different time horizons and scientific uncertainty …‖2 also play a role in the design, implementation and enforcement of rebuilding plans. The rebuilding of the Southern Bluefin Tuna (SBT) stock is not a rebuilding program as we would understand it today. Rather the plan has been evolving since the mid to late 1980s and was probably not seen as a formal rebuilding plan at the time it started. There