At its eighteenth annual meeting, the CCSBT agreed that a Management Procedure (MP) would be used to guide the setting of the SBT global total allowable catch (TAC) to ensure that the SBT spawning stock biomass achieves the interim rebuilding target of 20% of the original spawning stock biomass. The CCSBT will set the TAC from 2012 and beyond based on the outcome of the MP, unless the CCSBT decides otherwise based on information that is not otherwise incorporated into the MP.
In adopting the MP, the CCSBT emphasised the need to take a precautionary approach to increase the likelihood of the spawning stock rebuilding in the short term and to provide industry with more stability in the TAC (i.e. to reduce the probability of future TAC decreases). Under the adopted MP, the TAC will be set in three year periods. For the first three-year TAC setting period (2012-2014), the TAC will be as follows:
- 2012: 10,449 tonnes
- 2013: 10,949 tonnes; and
- 2014: 12,449 tonnes or at the level based on the MP outcomes for 2015 – 2017 (whichever is the less), unless the Extended Commission decides otherwise based on the assessment of the Compliance Committee.
The allocation of the TAC to Members and Cooperating Non-Members of the CCSBT for 2012 to 2014 is summarised below and in more detail in the Resolution on the Allocation of the Global Total Allowable Catch. In addition, some flexibility is provided to Members for limited carry-forward of unfished allocations within the three year period. This flexibility is described in the Resolution on Limited Carry-forward of Unfished Annual Total Allowable Catch of Southern Bluefin Tuna within Three Year Quota Blocks.
Allocation to Members
| |
|
2012 |
2013 |
2014*1 |
| |
Japan |
2,519 |
2,689 |
3,366*1 |
| |
Australia |
4,528 |
4,698 |
5,147 |
| |
Republic of Korea |
911 |
945 |
1,036 |
| |
Fishing Entity of Taiwan |
911 |
945 |
1,036 |
| |
New Zealand |
800 |
830 |
909 |
| |
Indonesia |
685 |
707 |
750 |
*1 The allocations shown for 2014 and the proportional allocation shown for Japan are dependent on the TAC for 2014 (these figures assume a TAC of 12,449t) and a compliance review at CCSBT 20 (2013) as described in the Resolution on the Allocation of the Global Total Allowable Catch.
Allocation to Cooperating Non-Members
| |
|
2012 |
2013 |
2014 |
| |
Philippines
|
45 |
45 |
45 |
| |
South Africa |
40 |
80*2 |
150*2 |
| |
European Community |
10 |
10 |
10 |
*2 The increased allocation to South Africa in 2013 and 2014 is subject to its accession to the Convention for the Conservation of Southern Bluefin Tuna. If South Africa does not accede by 31 May 2013, its allocation for 2013 will remain at 40t and the other 40t will be distributed amongst Members according to their nominal catch percentage levels in accordance with the Resolution on Allocation of the Global Total Allowable Catch.
More complete information on the total catch and its allocation is provided in paragraphs 29 to 39 and Attachments 12, 13 and 15 of the CCSBT18 Report.
