TXOTX: Technical eXperts Overseeing Third country eXpertise

Project summary

It is widely recognised that scientific efforts need to be coordinated to strengthen the knowledge base in support of policy-making in a global context. This is a complicated task that requires effective coordination and cooperation among States, RFOs and other agencies. States with an obligation to ensure sustainability of the resources they exploit should seek (i) to promote responsible fisheries and (ii) to promote good, coordinated scientific research. In the case of the EU, actions should be consistent with major international agreements (UNCLOS, CCRF, UNIA, WSSD) and contribute to improving coherence between different EU Policies on essay writing.

The TXOTX consortium proposes to build a network of scientists in countries with a strategic geographical distribution to produce a synthesis of data collection standards, assessment methods, management procedures that will be disseminated among participants, stakeholders and public in general.

Project objective(s)

The purpose of this Coordination Action is to facilitate a coherent approach towards research directed at the assessment and management of fish resources. The targets are particularly those areas where the European fleet is fishing in international or third country waters, or where the EU has important development goals. Thus, the principal objectives of TXOTX are:

• To collate information from all RFMO/RFOs and Fisheries Partnership Agreements as well as selected additional regions of special interest (with emphasis on CPA areas) on the extent of scientific research programmes being undertaken by the various actors.

• To analyse the data available and methodologies applied in assessment and management procedures regionally, in order to identify data and research gaps and opportunities for greater research coordination that may be promoted by the EU in support to scientific advice to fisheries management.

• To develop recommendations on how to improve cooperation with third parties in order to enhance research and resource status and to strength frameworks for Monitoring, Control and Surveillance (MCS) in order to counteract IUU fishing.

AZTI-Tecnalia (AZTI), Spain

Centre for Environment Fisheries & Aquaculture Science (Cefas), UK

Imperial College of London (ICL), UK

Instituto de Fomento Pesquero(IFOP), Chile

Stockholms Universitet (SU), Sweden

University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa

International Fisheries and Maritime Development Consultancy - Africa Office (NFDS Africa), Botswana

Seychelles Fishing Authority (SFA), Seychelles

Institut National de Recherche Halieutique (INRH), Morocco

Institute of Marine Sciences (IMS), Tanzania

Tanzania Fisheries Research Institute (TAFIRI), Tanzania

Contact details of researchers

• technical annex of TXOTX project.pdf

• Project Presentation

• WP 1 Management
• WP 2 Review of Management Areas
• WP 3 Across Regions Review
• WP 4 Synopsis
• WP 5 Dissemination

• Presentation at Long Distance RAC (Madrid, 2 April 2008)

• Presentation at IOTC Scientific Committee (Seychelles, 4 December 2008)

• First newsletter

D 5.3 Newsletter July 2009.pdf

• Second newsletter

D 5.5 Newsletter July 2010.pdf

Please, feel free to upload papers of interest to the project

langley_wcpo_management1.pdfbarlett_wcpo_pacislands_mpa.pdf

hanich_wcpo_pacislands_agreements.pdfbarclay_wcpo_pacislands_governance.pdfwright_wcpo_pacislands_coopmanagement.pdf

ward_wcpo_science-arrangements.pdfparris_wcpo_pacislands_economics.pdf

Failing the highseas by Suzuky and Pauly (2010)

• Journal of International Innovation publishes article about TXOTX

• European Development Fund publishes an article about TXOTX

TXOTX Sostenibilidad de los Mares.pdf

SCIFISH builds upon previous and current EC-funded projects implemented by the Oceanic Fisheries Programme (OFP) of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community (SPC), which is the regional focal point for tuna fisheries science and data acquisition.

These previous projects — the Pacific ACP and French Pacific OCT Regional Oceanic and Coastal Fisheries Development Project (PROCFish — 8th EDF), the South Pacific Regional Tuna Resource Assessment and Monitoring Project (SPRTRAMP - 7th EDF) and the Regional Tuna Tagging Project (RTTP — 6th EDF) — have developed methodologies in various technical areas, including ecosystem modelling, fishery monitoring and tuna tagging, which are highly relevant to SCIFISH.

There will also be close collaboration with the 9 th EDF DEVFISH project which will develop fisheries management plans based on the scientific data made available through this project.

*For more information click on this link: http://www.ta2rao.org/Projects/SciFish/SCIFISH.htm

• The European Tuna Sector_Final report UE Study 2003/02
• The European External Fleet Study 2008.pdf
• European Distant Water Fishing Fleet.rar
• Communication from the Commission on an integrated framework for FPAs with Third Countries.pdf
• Evaluation of the Fisheries Agreements concluded by EC 1999.pdf
• Comparative Study of the Fisheries Agreements 2007.pdf
• Structural aspects of the common fisheries policy in the outermost regions.pdf