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TABLE 2 - ESTIMATED CAPACITY REDUCTIONS IN MEDIUM AND LARGE BLUEFIN TUNA PS FLEETS NECESSARY TO MATCH SCIENTIFICALLY ADVISED CATCH LEVELS Under the conservative assumption that multispecies PS vessels would fully rely on other species Contracting Adjusted PS share of No. of M Catch capacity % of capacity reduction required Reduction in number of vessels Party quotas to match scientifically & L PS of M & L to match PS share of scientifically required to match PS share of advised catch levels 1 vessels 2 PS vessels advised catch levels scientifcally advised catch levels Algeria 617.02 8 1,500 58.87 5 Croatia 429.87 19 1,153 62.71 12 France 2341.22 32 8,360 71.99 23 Italy 1,845.84 46 5,645 67.30 31 Lybia 610.42 38 2,834 78.46 30 Spain 1,182.34 6 3,498 66.20 4 Tunisia 1,218.85 14 2,134 42.88 6 Turkey 457.79 178 15,189 96.99 173 TOTAL 341 283 TOTAL NECESSARY REDUCTION IN CAPACITY 78.4% NECESSARY REDUCTION IN CAPACITY EXCLUDING TURKEY 67.2% PS = purse seine, Mt = metric tonnes, ICCAT = International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas, M = medium, L = large 1 Total ICCAT Adjusted Quota 2008 = 29,082.26 Mt Total quota recommended by scientists for 2008 = 15,000 Mt Therefore, nescessary proportion of quota reduction = 15,000/29,082.26 = 0.52 2 Any vessel larger than 28.6 m Note: Capacity reduction figures are particularly underestimated for Tunisia, due to the high weight of the multispecies PS fleet in the national BFT catch. Conversely, Turkish figures might be overestimated in the event that the national medium and large PS fleet is not fully specialised in BFT fishing. vii
WWF conclusions This report sets the most reliable baseline ever made available (based on real fishing capacity at sea) for the necessary reduction of capacity in the purse seine fleets targeting bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean, and is a contribution to the ongoing policy discussions that should lead to the urgent adoption in 2008 of a set of bold and scientifically grounded management measures to secure recovery of the East Atlantic and Mediterranean BFT stock. As stated before, the study focuses on the most important fishing fleet currently targeting BFT: the purse seine fleet. WWF is aware that similar conclusions on the need to reduce huge fleet overcapacity would have likely been reached should this study have been extended to industrial pelagic longlining. Indeed, the need for huge cuts in capacity in the purse seine fleet uncovered by this report does not preclude the need to limit capacity in Asian and local medium- and largescale longline fleets as well (like the Libyan oceanic fleet) targeting bluefin tuna in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic. This said, WWF’s current report confirms that current priorities for saving BFT from its commercial and ecological extinction are twofold: 1) adopting a real recovery plan including management conservation measures aligned with scientific advice and 2) drastically reducing the capacity of the fleets targeting this species, particularly the huge purse seine fleet. Until the above measures are adopted and conditions for their full implementation are strictly secured, WWF calls on ICCAT Contracting Parties to adopt a moratorium on the fishery, and on citizens, retailers, chefs ad restaurateurs to boycott any trade and consumption of this species 6 . For further information, see: www.panda.org/tuna . 6 with the sole exception of the intrinsically sustainable trap fishery viii
Page 1 and 2: Race for the last bluefin Capacity
Page 3 and 4: WWF’s exhaustive new report, Race
Page 5 and 6: Mediterranean BFT purse seine fleet
Page 7: TABLE 1 - ESTIMATED CAPACITY REDUCT
Page 11 and 12: Fishing capacity of the bluefin tun
Page 13 and 14: 1. Introduction Rampant overfishing
Page 15 and 16: Contracting Parties 1996 or Base�
Page 17 and 18: Figure 004. Bluefin tuna biomass tr
Page 19 and 20: • A growing number of new purse s
Page 21 and 22: o Installed more powerful hydraulic
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Page 25 and 26: 2. A brief spatial & temporal analy
Page 27 and 28: 3. Identification of ICCAT register
Page 29 and 30: were retained as being only Libyan
Page 31 and 32: Figure 022: Italian EU-IFOP finance
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Page 35 and 36: In terms of Total Installed Power o
Page 37 and 38: Maximum yearly potential BFT catch
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Page 41 and 42: a. The case of the French MED BFT P
Page 43 and 44: Name of PS Vessel Date Time Latitud
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Page 53 and 54: c. The case of the Tunisian MED BFT
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BFT PS Vessel License Number GT Len
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e. The case of the Italian MED BFT
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Figure 032: Best and maximum yearly
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Name of vessel Operative since and
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Name of vessel Operative since and
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According to this survey, the total
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f. The case of the Croatian MED BFT
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2002 PS BFT Exports 2003 PS BFT Exp
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Table 016 summarises previously rec
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Figure 049: Maximum and average est
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Our assessment is furthermore suppo
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Figure 055: Croatian flagged BFT PS
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g. The case of the Algerian MED BFT
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h. The case of the Libyan MED BFT P
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In 2004. Libya declared 872.5 Mt ca
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Figure 066: Average yearly BFT catc
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i. The cases of the Greek, Maltese
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j. Initial conclusions. It thus app
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5. Minimum economic “break-even 8
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Malta would count 3 new units, all
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Year 1998 built PS total annual amo
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1997 built PS total annual amortisa
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Figure 076: Comparative Gross Fleet
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Figure 077: Gross Fleet Capital Inv
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As stated previously, the average I
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By applying such inflation linear t
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Algeria Croatia France Italy Libya
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Figure 081: Yearly variation of ave
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Croatia has only reported total PS
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6. List of Tables and Figures. a. F
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Figure 040: Maximum and average rep
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Figure 079: Estimated average annua
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7. List of acronyms AIS: Automated
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Annex I ANNEXES Bluefin tuna purse
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