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### Viewing cable 07BRASILIA71, BRAZIL HOSTS THE I SOUTH AMERICAN FISHERS FORUM ON SOLVING

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    UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 05 BRASILIA 000071

    SIPDIS

    SIPDIS

    DEPT PASS USAID TO LAC/RSD, LAC/SAM, G/ENV, PPC/ENV
    INTERIOR FOR DIR INT AFFAIRS: K WASHBURN
    INTERIOR FOR FWS: TOM RILEY
    INTERIOR PASS USGS FOR INTERNATIONAL: J WEAVER
    COMMERCE FOR NOAA: K RIVERA
    COMMERCE FOR NMFS: A GUTIERREZ
    JUSTICE FOR ENVIRONMENT AND NATURAL RESOURCES: JWEBB
    EPA FOR INTERNATIONAL: CAM HILL-MACON
    USDA FOR ARS/INTERNATIONAL RESEARCH: G FLANLEY
    NSF FOR INTERNATIONAL: HAROLD STOLBERG

    E.O. 12958: N/A
    TAGS: SENV EAGR EAID TBIO ECON SOCI XR BR
    SUBJECT: BRAZIL HOSTS THE I SOUTH AMERICAN FISHERS FORUM ON SOLVING
    THE INCIDENTAL CAPTURES OF SEABIRDS IN FISHERIES -SAFF1

    BRASILIA 00000071  001.2 OF 005

    Summary

    ¶1. On December 12-14, an OES-sponsored workshop with the slogan
    "Catch Fish Not Birds" brought together 50 experts from across the
    world to take a look at the potential to reduce seabird bycatch
    throughout the South American long-line fishery via the adoption of
    mitigation measures in South America fishing fleets.  As a result of
    the event, several solutions to reduce the incidental catch of sea
    birds were identified between fishers, fishing entrepreneurs,
    researchers, NGO's and governments.  In addition, the partners
    conducted a full discussion of the economic and environmental
    benefits of reducing sea bird bycatch and committed themselves to
    implementing some of these mitigation measures throughout South
    America.  End Summary

    The event - SAFF 1

    ¶2.  The event, the "First South American Fishers Forum on Solving
    the Incidental Captures of Seabirds in Fisheries-SAFF-1", was held
    December 12-14 in Guaruja, Sao Paulo State, Brazil.  The workshop
    was funded with a USD 29,500 OES-I grant administered through the
    Instituto Albatroz and sponsored by the NGO The Care for the Wild
    from the United Kingdom in partnership with Southern Seabird
    Solutions from New Zealand.  The key organizers of the event were
    Tatiana Neves, Projeto Albatroz General Coordinator, and Janice
    Molloy, from Southern Seabird Solutions, New Zealand.  The Brazilian
    Environment Agency (IBAMA) also contributed to organizing the event
    and in coordinating the implementation of the Brazilian National
    Plan for the Conservation of Albatrosses and Petrels -
    NPOA-Seabirds/Brazil.  In total, the workshop attracted
    approximately 50 participants from eleven countries (Argentina,
    Australia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, New Zealand, Peru, Spain, United
    Kingdom (Malvinas/Falklands), Uruguay, and USA).

    ¶3. The SAFF1 opening session was attended by Dr. Altemir Gregolin,
    Ministry of Aquaculture and Fisheries Special Secretariat of the
    Brazilian Presidency; Dr. Romulo Mello, IBAMA's Fauna Director;
    Patricia Palumbo, President of Instituto Albatroz; and the Guaruja
    Municipality Environment Secretariat.  The unified message was that
    the forum was being held so that institutions from different
    countries could take advantage of opportunities for greater
    collaboration in developing new paths to improve the environmental

    BRASILIA 00000071  002.2 OF 005

    and social performance of the fishing business in South America and
    to promote solutions to reduce seabird bycatch in longline
    fisheries.

    Seabird and Fisheries Interactions - An overview

    ¶4. Incidental bycatch from longline fishing operations has been
    identified as a major source of mortality for many seabird species
    throughout the Southern Ocean threatening some species with
    extinction.  More than 100,000 seabirds are killed every year due to
    interactions with the longline fishing industry.  For many species,
    this mortality rate often exceeds the population's reproductive
    rate.  This has led in part to what the IUCN 2006 report on
    albatrosses indicated was nineteen of the world's twenty-one
    albatross species now being faced with extinction.

    ¶5. Simple methods for reducing the number of the birds caught have
    been developed.  For example towing bird-scaring lines (torilines),
    dying the bait blue and setting lines at night are some mitigation
    measures that have been tested and implemented in some fisheries
    such as the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine
    Living Resources (CCAMLR) Treaty area resulting in decreases in sea
    bird mortality of over 90 percent.  In addition, the issue of
    seabird mortality is directly linked with improving efficiency in
    the longline fleets.  When the seabirds eat the bait, the main
    consequence is the reduction of the production capacity of the
    longline vessels.  For example, it has been estimated that the
    Japanese longline fleet in the Tasmanian Sea suffers an annual loss
    of USD 4.3 million because of this particular interaction.

    Seabird and Fisheries Interaction in South America - Country
    Updates

    ¶6. Dr. Carlos Moreno, from Universidad Austral de Chile, noted that,
    in Chile, 25 percent of the reduction of the Black-browed Albatross
    population is due to the industrial Patagonian toothfish fisheries
    in Chile operating since 1990.  According to Moreno, since 2003
    Chile has been developing the National Action Plan to Reducing
    Seabird Interaction in the Chilean Longline Fisheries (PAN-AM) and
    defined measures to revise some fisheries, such as pelagic and
    demersal (bottom) longline fisheries.  According to the research
    program of the PAN-AM the main techniques that need to be re-tested
    are the effectiveness of integrated weighted lines in demersal

    BRASILIA 00000071  003.2 OF 005

    fisheries, the use of streamer lines, also known as bird-scaring
    lines or torilines, in combination with other simple measures to
    nearly eliminate seabird mortality.

    ¶7. In Peru, research on small-scale longliners confirmed a high
    seabird mortality rate - as much as 7.4 birds/1,000 hooks in some
    areas, with an average range of 0.74-1.75 birds/1,000 hooks.
    Approximately 40 percent were albatrosses, and other seabirds
    frequently caught included shearwaters, boobies and pelicans.

    ¶8. In Brazil, vessels primarily targeting swordfish, but also tuna
    and shark, have increased dramatically since 1998, and more than
    12,000 seabirds are killed each year in these fisheries, including
    some species threatened with extinction.  However, since 2001, the
    Projeto Albatroz has worked for the seabirds' conservation in the
    Southwestern Atlantic, which is an extremely important feeding area
    for many albatross species.  The Projeto Albatroz goals are to make
    the domestic longline fleet aware of the problem, to implement
    mitigation measures, and to monitor the seabird bycatch using the
    Brazilian National Plan of Action for the Conservation of
    Albatrosses and Petrels (NPOA-Seabird/Brazil) as a model to
    implement fishing practices and adopt safe and inexpensive
    mitigation measures to reduce seabird bycatch in the region.

    How conservation groups, researchers and government can support
    fishermen - Workshop Conclusions

    ¶9. On the final day of the forum, the participants were split into
    small groups to discuss specific issues. The first group addressed
    observer programs such as BirdLife International's Albatross Task
    Force, that works at-sea and on-shore to encourage the adoption of
    mitigation measures and to collect baseline bycatch data, where
    required.  The Task Force currently has three full-time mitigation
    instructors working in South Africa and two employees working in the
    pelagic fisheries of Brazil.  There are also plans to have two
    people based in Chile by the end of 2006 or early 2007, and
    negotiations are underway to have a further 4-6 people working in
    South America in 2007/08.  The Task Force was designed to provide
    capacity and experience to help advance research into the
    development of pelagic fishery mitigation measures.  BirdLife was
    congratulated on progress made over the last 12 months in the
    implementation of the Task Force and was encouraged to further
    expand the scope and size of the project.

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    ¶10. The second group addressed the effective ways to introduce
    fishermen to mitigation measures and concluded that the economic
    efficiency approaches to define economic loss analysis in the
    fisheries business could be one possibility.  In addition, other
    factors that could result in the fisheries adopting these measures
    included market threats such as the "Chilean sea Bass" ban, as well
    as the positive incentive of potential certification of well-managed
    fisheries.  The need for awareness-raising materials in appropriate
    languages using fishermen to talk to other fishermen to get a
    message accepted and also providing critical training for key
    fishermen players, including fishery compliance observer officers
    and fishery monitors in ports and harbors throughout South America
    were also viewed as key elements of the strategy.

    ¶11. The third group addressed the strategies to attain the benefits
    of sustainable seafood markets for South America. According two
    experts Dr. Martin Hall, from IATTC and Douglas Meyer from Bernuth &
    Williamson Consulting/Seafood Choices Alliance, the key strategy is
    to develop an environmental standard for sustainable and
    well-managed fisheries to help pre-certification by the Marine
    Stewardship Council (MSC).  As of November 2006, 21 fisheries have
    been certified under this system and there are more than 450
    products on the market worldwide with the label.  The role of large
    consumers of fisheries products such as Wal-Mart and their stated
    goals of buying only MSC certified fisheries products was also
    underscored.

    ¶12. The main actions to improve emerging markets for sustainable
    seafood and its relevance to seabirds should be addressed by an
    identification of fisheries which have the potential for export, to
    involve local governments into the process of local certification,
    to integrate the certification process into the marine conservation
    approach, to define criteria and specific standards for each
    certification, and to improve the knowledge of the chain of custody
    of the product.  This group thought it would be useful to contact
    institutions to produce Wallet cards of the sustainably harvested
    species, to look into the possibility of creating regional
    approaches to certification, and to search for regional partnerships
    (local governments, fisheries industries, cooperatives and NGO's)
    for environment solutions with a market incentive.

    Comment:

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    ¶13. The forum was successful in achieving its stated objectives of
    bringing together fishers, seabird bycatch experts, and others to
    introduce the fishing industries to the various methods to reduce
    interactions with seabirds and to obtain commitments from these
    industries to reduce seabird bycatch.  The long-term success,
    however, will depend on how the efforts to reduce seabird bycatch
    levels in fisheries will be implemented by the industry and whether
    or not regulations requiring these measures are legislated by the
    governments in the region.

    ¶15. Workshop information, presentation, photographs and results will
    be posted at
    http://www.forumdepescadores.com.br.  For further information
    contact Tatiana Neves, Instituto Albatroz General Coordinator,
    tneves@projetoalbatroz.org.br.

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