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Session II: Reporting back from breakout session

NAME, Rhodes University

7th Biennial GEF International Waters Conference

Bridgetown, Barbados

Targeted WorkshopsEconomic Valuation as a Tool to Bridge the Science-Policy Gap

• Three groups found it useful, providing a good context for further discussion in the next session

• One group found although useful, it was fairly rigid, perhaps too linear for todays application, and the context of the application – putting it into the big picture

• With indirect effects social issues became very important• A lot of discussion on stakeholders to be included• The same sectors in different geographical areas have very

different issues • In practice one would information on all the sectors and

interactions before making specific management recommendations

KEY OUTCOMES FROM THE BREAKOUT GROUPS

Selecting New or Modifying Management Measures

Identify Issues For Action

Prioritise Issues

Select OptimalMeasures

Consider ManagementMeasures to Address

Priority IssuesConsider Costs & Benefitsof Management Options

for all Objectives

Agree on BroadObjectives for Fishery

Implement

A Simple Scoring Approach as an Example

The Angolan Artisanal Fishery – Broad Objectives

Maintain biomass of important at productive levels. Minimize impact on juvenile or undersized fish. Minimize impacts on threatened, protected species. Minimize impacts on coastal communities and ecosystems. Maintain or increase the supply of good-quality fish to the

population. Contribute to poverty alleviation through the increase of

opportunities for employment Increase equity in the distribution of employment and income Maximize the contribution of the fishery to the national

economy, especially coastal provinces

Cost-Benefit of By-catch limits in Angola Trawl Fishery

ObjectiveComments / rationale on the Effects

of the Proposed Management Response

Short term Long term

Cost Benefit Cost Benefit

Restore biomass of commercially important demersal species to optimal levels of productivity;

Will contribute via reduction of mortality0 1 0 3

Maintain demersal community structure in terms of size structure and species composition;

Will contribute via reduction of mortality0 1 0 3

Minimize impacts of bottom trawl fishery on threatened, protected or vulnerable species (sea turtles, sharks, marine mammals, other);

No effect

0 0 0 0

Minimize impacts of bottom trawling on bottom substrate;

Reduction of by-catch will reduce impact0 1 0 2

To contribute to poverty alleviation through the increase of opportunities of employment in the fisheries extractive sector and in the fish processing industry in the coastal provinces;

Indirect effect, via recovered stocks

0 0 0 2

To promote the development of the industrial productive fisheries sector;

Indirect effect, via recovered stocks0 0 0 2

To promote reliable supply of fish products to the population, at accessible prices;

Indirect effect, via recovered stocks0 0 0 2

To promote equity in the distribution of employment and income among the regions of the country and in the coastal provinces;

No effect

0 0 0 0

Maximize long-term economic benefits from the fishery; Indirect effect, via recovered stocks 1 2 1 3

Total Cost - Benefit1 5 1 17

Some Potential Management Actions for the Angolan Artisanal Fishery

Bycatch and Gear

Management and MCS

Social and Economic Issues

Benefit Cost Estimators for EAF Management Actions – Angolan

Artisanal Fishery