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FAO/FishCode Review No. 21 Using questionnaires based
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This report is based on a preliminary manuscript prepared by Mr John F. Caddy, FAO Consultant, which was presented and discussed at a Fisheries and Aquaculture Department seminar held at FAO on 14 February 2007. The manuscript was subsequently edited and revised by Mr J. Eric Reynolds and Ms Gunilla Tegelskär Greig (FishCode Programme, FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department). Dr Miguel Angel Cisneros and Dr Alejandro Rodríguez of the World Wildlife Fund Mexico Gulf of California Program, and Drs John Kaneko, Paul Bartram and George Krasnick (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Hawaii Seafood Project) of PacMar Inc., Honolulu, are gratefully acknowledged for their valuable input and cooperation in the production of this report. Thanks are also due to a number of FAO colleagues who reviewed the preliminary manuscript and offered constructive criticisms and suggestions both during and after the February 2007 seminar, and to Ms Françoise Schatto (FAO Fisheries and Aquaculture Department) and Mr Luca Limongelli (FishCode Programme) for their assistance with print preparation. |
| Caddy, J.F.; Reynolds, J.E. (ed.); Tegelskär Greig, G. (ed.). Using questionnaires based on the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries as diagnostic tools in support of fisheries management. FAO/FishCode Review. No. 21. Rome, FAO. 2007. 109p. Although the 1995 FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (the Code) is not a legallybinding instrument, it represents a consensus between countries as to the features that should characterize systems designed to ensure sustainable use of fishery resources. This report provides a series of questionnaires corresponding as closely as possible to clauses from Articles 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12 of the Code, which can form the basis for a practical method of evaluating compliance of national or local fisheries with its provisions. The general questionnaire approach parallels the procedures used by the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) and provides a way of converting statements of principle in a global instrument including a legal framework, into a semi-quantitative form that can be more easily used in a multidisciplinary fisheries evaluation of management performance. Emphasis is placed on displaying the results of questionnaires in an easily understandable form and how these may be incorporated into decision-making. Approaches that could be used in operationalizing the Code are discussed, using examples where the Code has been applied in questionnaire form for evaluating fisheries objectives described by its different Articles. Other assessment approaches used for related purposes are included for reference. For example, protocols are suggested for evaluating performance in relation to ecosystem management, fisheries co-management and stock recovery strategies, based on the FAO Technical Guidelines for the Code, workshop experience and the fisheries literature. Different formats and procedures are provided, and some of the problems encountered are described. The use of questionnaires to promote adherence to the Code’s provisions are discussed using several practical applications. The focus is mainly on applications of the Code at the grassroots level by local fisheries management authorities operating within national fisheries jurisdictions. Attached to the inside back cover is a copy of a CD-ROM containing excerpt questionnaires for ease of use. Keywords: Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries, fisheries management,compliance,monitoring, assessment |
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1. Introduction
1.1 The Code of Conduct: brief background
1.2 FAO’s biennial questionnaire for member countries
1.3 Adapting the Code’s provisions to national fisheries
2. A methodology for using the Code in practical fishery management
2.1 Recent developments in fisheries science
2.2 Measuring compliance to environmental andother standards:
examples relevant to fisheries monitoring
2.3 Indicators of sustainability: the AMOEBA approach
2.4 Semi-quantitative information
2.5 The traffic light approach
2.6 The fisheries control rule
2.7 Monitoring requirements
2.8 Displaying the results of questionnaire outputs
2.9 Expressing the Code as a questionnaire – some methodological issues
2.10 Completion of the Code questionnaires
3. Examples of methodologies using questionnaires based on the Code
3.1 Testing adherence of a regional fishery to the provisions of the Code
in the Gulf of California, Mexico
3.2 Evaluating compliance of the Hawaii pelagic longline fisheries
with Code Articles 7, 8, 10, 11 and 12
3.3 Evaluating a fisheries research programme from the perspective
of Article 12: an “idealized” example
3.4 An alternate approach to using multidisciplinary tools and indicators:
the RAPFISH methodology
4. The potential role of non-specialist organizations in monitoring fisheries
performance
5. Summary
6. Discussion
6. Discussion
Appendix 1. Questionnaires on CCRF Articles 7 through 12
Appendix 1A. Article 7: Fisheries Management
Appendix 1B. Article 8: Fishing Operations
Appendix 1C. Article 9: Aquaculture Development
Appendix 1D. Article 10: Integration of Fisheries into Coastal Area Management
Appendix 1E. Article 11: Post-harvest Practices and Trade
Appendix 1F. Article 12: Fisheries Research
Appendix 2. Questionnaires on ecosystem approach and community-based
management
Appendix 2A. Ecosystem Principles
Appendix 2B. Community-based Management
Appendix 2C. Example of scorings for the ecosystem approach questionnaire
used at the Gulf of California workshop
Appendix 3. Application of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries
to the Hawaii longline fisheries
Appendix 4. The potential role of non-specialist organizations in monitoring
fisheries performance
Supplement A. The Official FAO questionnaire on Code implementation
Supplement B. Extract from an official response to the FAO questionnaire on
Code implementation
Supplement C. Excerpt from a “customized” set of guidelines for geoduck and
horse clam fisheries in British Columbia, Canada
Supplement D. Questions to consider when planning and implementing fishery
recovery actions
Supplement E. Extracts from the scorecard proposed for the International Coral
Reef Initiative (ICRI)
Supplement F. Extract from a hypothetical response to a questionnaire based on
evaluating performance of national research institutes to Article 12
of the Code of Conduct