REEFCHECK WROTE
""Hi to all
I am just adding to answers whether areas in the Philippines are still sustainable with regards to aquarium trade. Reef Check is using several strategies to make the trade in these areas sustainable by: (1) establishing new marine protected areas and/or supporting and improving existing ones; (2) initiating rehabilitation activities such as those Rex described in some posts; and (2) helping the community develop and implement management plans. For the latter, we specifically indicate catch limits given fisheries models and data on hand. We have developed with MAC as well a mechanism that collection levels relative to TACs are continuously tracked.
We also track trends in catch-per-unit effort of targets from catch records. So far, the data for several species in our project areas indicate no significant decline in catch-per-unit effort for various species in Batasan and Clarin. Therefore, collection has been continued for these species. We are still in the process of updating our analysis for Camotes and Marcilla.
Reef Check also drafts a precautionary species list per area that needs careful monitoring in trends in catch-per-unit effort. These species are usually the high-demand and high-priced. As a management tool, any significant decline in catch-per-unit effort (number of fish caught per hour per fisherman) within three months should trigger a local community meeting and a decision to decrease fishing effort. ""
Isn't it interesting that so called third world fishers can come together for the common cause of conserving their limited fish resources and the so called first world bicker with eachother and play politics while their own industry risks government regulations from their failure to act,
Wayne Ryan
""Hi to all
I am just adding to answers whether areas in the Philippines are still sustainable with regards to aquarium trade. Reef Check is using several strategies to make the trade in these areas sustainable by: (1) establishing new marine protected areas and/or supporting and improving existing ones; (2) initiating rehabilitation activities such as those Rex described in some posts; and (2) helping the community develop and implement management plans. For the latter, we specifically indicate catch limits given fisheries models and data on hand. We have developed with MAC as well a mechanism that collection levels relative to TACs are continuously tracked.
We also track trends in catch-per-unit effort of targets from catch records. So far, the data for several species in our project areas indicate no significant decline in catch-per-unit effort for various species in Batasan and Clarin. Therefore, collection has been continued for these species. We are still in the process of updating our analysis for Camotes and Marcilla.
Reef Check also drafts a precautionary species list per area that needs careful monitoring in trends in catch-per-unit effort. These species are usually the high-demand and high-priced. As a management tool, any significant decline in catch-per-unit effort (number of fish caught per hour per fisherman) within three months should trigger a local community meeting and a decision to decrease fishing effort. ""
Isn't it interesting that so called third world fishers can come together for the common cause of conserving their limited fish resources and the so called first world bicker with eachother and play politics while their own industry risks government regulations from their failure to act,
Wayne Ryan