{"id":1973,"date":"2007-01-09T09:59:00","date_gmt":"2007-01-09T09:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/worldfishing.nfdtesting.uk\/icefish-conference\/2007\/01\/09\/wcpfc-control-and-conservation-measures-agreed\/"},"modified":"2007-01-09T09:59:00","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T09:59:00","slug":"wcpfc-control-and-conservation-measures-agreed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/news\/industry-news\/wcpfc-control-and-conservation-measures-agreed\/","title":{"rendered":"WCPFC control and conservation measures agreed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>These included measure on monitoring and control, aiming to make a substantial contribution to conserving the region\u2019s fish stocks.<\/p>\n<p>A proposal to combat illegal, unregulated and unreported (IUU) fishing was made and, in the future, WCPFC will formally blacklist IUU vessels.<\/p>\n<p>A scheme has also been adopted allowing non-flag state inspectors to board and inspect any vessel flagged to a contracting party fishing in the convention area.<\/p>\n<p>A commitment has also been made to implement a centralised satellite-based vessel monitoring system (VMS).<\/p>\n<p>A number of conservation measures were also agreed, including:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 A proposal to limit fishing effort on swordfish to 2005 levels through 2007 and 2008<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Technical measures to reduce by-catch, particularly of seabirds, in the longline fisheries<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 To regulate shark fisheries in line with the current practice of other tuna RFMOs<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission (WCPFC)\u2019s annual meeting finished at the end of December, with agreements on a range of new conservation and control measures.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"sponsor":[],"class_list":["post-1973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-industry-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1973"},{"taxonomy":"sponsor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.worldfishing.net\/icefish-conference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/sponsor?post=1973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}