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WCC 2020 Res 055 - Activity Report

Submitted by Catherine.Wallace on Fri, 06/16/2023 - 10:29
Information générale
Orientations pour identifier la pêche industrielle incompatible avec les aires protégées
Constituant de l’UICN: 
Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand
Type de Constituant de l’UICN: 
IUCN Member
Période d’activité: 
2022
Zone géographique: 
Océanie
Océan Pacifique
Pays/Territoire: 
New Zealand
In implementing this Resolution your organization has worked/consulted with...
Veuillez indiquer quels autres acteurs (non-membres de l’UICN) sont impliqués dans la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
New Zealand government agencies, Deep Sea Conservation Coalition, various others
Implémentation
Indicate and briefly describe any actions that have been carried out to implement this Resolution: 
ActionDescriptionStatus
Activit�s visant � influencer et/ou promouvoir les politiquesECO with others including iwi and hapu(Maori tribes and subtribes) continues to press for genuine MPAS and for the New Zealand fishing industry and Ministry to stop pretending that Bogus Protected Areas qualify as marine protected areas.On-going
Activit�s techniques/scientifiquesThe Environment and Conservation Organisations of New Zealand, ECO, has pressed in several jurisdictions and often in concert with other ENGOs, pressed for the conservation purpose of MPAs and OECMs to be a key criterion and focus of protected areas. In particular we have pressed for an end to bottom trawling on seamounts and associated features, and vulnerable marine ecosystems. We have raised the issue in both policy and in scientific fora in New Zealand and in the South Pacific Regional Fisheries Management areas and else where. We have called for the New Zealand "Benthic Protected Areas" to be recognised as Bogus Protected areas since they were established on the initiative of the industrial fishing interests in New Zealand as a means of avoiding conservation-inspired protected areas, not for the purpose of conservation.On-going
Veuillez indiquer quels ont été les résultats obtenus dans le cadre des activités entreprises pour la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
For a period, with the authority of the IUCN MPA classifications and the New Zealand Department of Conservation, we got a pause in the NZ government claiming that BPAs counted as MPAs, but we keep finding that the claims resurface.
Quelles mesures ont été prises afin de surmonter ces obstacles ?: 
ECO is entirely voluntary so our capacity is stretched. The main problems is that disinformation that equates so-called Benthic Protected Areas with genuine MPAs that is spread from the New Zealand fishing industry and at times the Ministry of Primary Industries is widely circulated but not often recognised or rebutted as the fake claims they are.
Veuillez indiquer et décrire brièvement les activités planifiées par la suite pour la mise en œuvre de cette Résolution: 
Activité FutureDescription
Activit�s visant � influencer et/ou promouvoir les politiquesWe will continue to challenge the false claims and to draw attention to the damage that industrial fishing does, and how it should not be tolerated in MPAs. Industrial fishing is hugely influential but we will continue to call out the false claims and we will continue to press for an end to damaging mobile fishing methods.