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Final <strong>Report</strong>
RoO Derogation under the PACP-IEPA
access to Indonesian waters, the closure of the HSPs (an important fishing area for these vessels),
and continuing low availability of fish in Philippines waters. These vessels, which were already
fishing in the WCPO but not within PNA waters (and hence, were not on the FFA RVR), currently
supply little raw material to PNG’s existing canneries, with most fish landed in Philippines. However,
they may do so in the future utilising global sourcing if PNG’s processing capacity increases, as
planned. Relatively few of the new or re-flagged/relocated vessels are EU compliant in SPS terms
(see Section 5.6.1).
As noted, some of the increase in vessel numbers involves migration onto the FFA RVR, not new
fishing effort into the region; these vessels were already fishing within the WCPFC Convention Area
outside of FFA members’ waters (e.g. the Philippines vessels formerly fishing as domestic vessels and
not on the register until licensed under bilateral access in PNG since 2007). There is also effort
expansion related to building domestic capacity/domestication (e.g. growing RMI fleet) or
commercial expansion of comparatively new entrants to the fishery (e.g. China), which is unrelated
to derogation.
Current raw material flows
Raw material caught by purse seiners operating in the WCPO is shipped to many countries for
processing, as well as directed in some cases to processing facilities based in PICs (i.e. PNG, Solomon
Islands, Fiji, Marshall Islands) (see Section 6.7.4). Current raw material flows for WCPO processing
involve the following destinations:
• Thailand for canning/loining 142 (750,000 mt in 2010, or 41% of the total purse seine catch),
with Taiwan, the US and Korea the major suppliers; also Japan, Vanuatu, Marshalls, El
Salvador, China, Indonesia, Solomon Islands, PNG and others.
• Philippines for canning (220,000 mt, comprising, in approximately equal amounts, fish from
domestic vessel catch (though this is decreasing), catch by Philippines vessels fishing in PNG
(both chartered and bilateral access), and other fleets, including Japan, Korea and Taiwan.
• Korea for canning (120,000 mt), supplied by own fleet.
• Pago Pago for canning (100,000 mt estimated), supplied by US and Korean fleets.
• Japan for canning, katsuobushi, fresh consumption (150,000 mt, mostly supplied by own
fleet).
• Indonesia – large domestic consumption (>100,000 mt), canning (90,000 mt).
• Eastern Pacific Ocean, for canning (100,000 mt, mostly Ecuador), mostly supplied by Kiribati,
Spain, Ecuador, El Salvador .
• PNG for processing (~70,000 mt), most fish from domestic vessels, chartered vessels, some
from bilateral access vessels, mostly from within PNG EEZ; large volumes exported as frozen
whole round for canning elsewhere (e.g. Philippines, Thailand).
Potential future changes in fleet profile
With the shift to the Vessel Day Scheme in 2007, there are no longer explicit capacity limits in the
WCPO purse seine fishery, other than the non-binding 2005 Resolution on Reduction of
Overcapacity. 143 With the advent of VDS, the number of vessels has grown considerably since 2007,
though not all are new vessels (Table 5.3). Nonetheless, no further increases in overall WCPO purse
142 Thai imports are listed by flag rather than by beneficial ownership.
143 WCPFC Resolution 2005-02.
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