Chapter I Intro & Objectives - SPREP

PHOENIX ISLANDS PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT PLAN
Chapter III. Background, 5. Fisheries Resources
Draft 1 March 2007
2001
PHOENIX
ISLANDS
The annual distribution of skipjack and yellowfin catch by Federated States of Micronesia
Arrangement purse seine vessels in the Phoenix Islands portion of the Kiribati EEZ for 1999
to 2001 was presented by Langley (2003), see Table III-5.17.
Table III-5.17. Annual distribution of total skipjack and yellowfin catch (t x 1000) by
the different purse seine fleets in the Phoenix portion
of the Kiribati EEZ for 1999 to 2001
(source: Langley 2003).
Phoenix EEZ Area Skipjack catch Yellowfin catch
1999 2000 2001 1999 2000 2001
FSM Arrangement purse seiners
Percent of total catches 0.0% 0.8% 1.5% 0.0% 1.1% 1.8%
Total catch 28.2 30.7 77.0 10.9 11.3 17.2
US registered purse-seiners
Percent of total catch 14.3% 15.8% 9.3% 13.1% 25.1% 8.5%
Total catch 145.2 94.3 72.6 37.4 27.8 20.5
Korean purse-seiners
Percent of total catch 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.5%
Total catch 107.9 121.8 132.4 31.3 26.0 38.5
Taiwanese purse-seiners
Percent of total catch 0.0% 0.0% 0.1% 0.0% 0.0% 0.7%
Total catch 164.9 188.6 177.9 45.2 37.6 44.6
Purse seine catches of skipjack and yellowfin in the Kiribati EEZ (including the Phoenix
Islands) for 1996 to 2001 were presented by Langley (2003), see Figure III-5.27 below.
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94.5
18.9
unassociated
log_debris
drif ting_FAD
anchored_FAD
other
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