| Summary: | 碩士 === 國立臺灣海洋大學 === 環境生物與漁業科學學系 === 96 === The deep sea tuna longline fishery is the most important
deep sea fishery in Taiwan. To maintain the long-term
management of this fishery and in view of the sustainable
use of fishery resources, the management measures made
by the relevant Regional Fisheries Management
Organizations (RFMOs) should be fully complied with. This
research aims at the analysis of the trend of management
of these RFMOs and the review of Taiwan’ s past policies;
and in the end offering substantial proposal to the future
development of Taiwanese tuna fisheries, hoping that this
can be helpful to the sustainable development. This
research is summarized as follows:
1. Currently there are around 457 deep sea tuna longliners
flagging in Taiwan and operating the whole year in the
three main oceans. The annual catches reach 310,000
metric tons with the total value up to 32 billion NT
dollars.
2.The problems that Taiwan deep sea tuna longline fishery
faces include： (A)over-size of fleet,(B)the foreign flag
fishing vessel operated by Taiwanese nationals are
blamed by the international communities, (C)difficult to
control the numerous small scale tuna
longliners,(D)unable to monitor these deep sea fishing
vessels effectively due to their long-term operations
overseas,(E)lack of personnel of international affairs
and oversea fishery specialists,(F)the poor quality of
statistics and researches do not commensurate with the
scale of fisheries; all these problems need to be
overcome without hesitation.
3. The trends of management of the tuna RFMOs are: (A)
control of fishing efforts, (B)allocation of catch quota,
(C)the more effective management of medium and small
scale longliners, (D)the installation of Vessel Monitoring
System (VMS) on board, (E)elimination of Illegal,
Unregulated and Unreported (IUU) fishing activities,
(F)development of Regional Observer Program (ROP)
4. In the past, to collaborate with the regulations made by
the tuna RFMOs, the Taiwan tuna fishery has made
adjusted measures as: (A)the reform of fishery
administrations, (B)more active participation in those
tuna RFMOs,(C)adjustment of fishing efforts,
(D)encouraging the re-flagging back to Taiwan of those
FOC fishing vessels made in Taiwan, (E) enhancement
of monitoring of fishing operations.
5. To ensure the sustainable development of Taiwan tuna
fisheries, with the existing bases the current policies
are: (A)promote the responsible fisheries, (B)eliminate
IUU activities, (C)enhance the control and monitoring of
vessels’ operation, (D)actively participate in those
tuna RFMOs’ activities and broaden international
fishery cooperation.
6. To cope with the trend of management by those tuna
RFMOs, some strategies must be implemented
efficiently, including: (A)the control of
moratorium/closure, (B)the limitation of minimum size of
catches, (C)Total Allowable catch (TAC) and individual
catch quota, (D)the limitation of fleet scale, (E)the
transparency of fishing vessels’ operation, (F)the
monitoring of transshipment of catches, (G)the
validation of trading of catches, (H)the treatments of
by-catch marine species, (I)elimination of IUU fishing
activities, (J)the implementation of science and
enforcement observers programs.
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