グローバルマヒ

With seven global mahi FIPs currently in place across geographies with the highest production and market value, efforts are well underway to address some of the key sustainability issues related to improving mahi stock health and abundance, advancing fishery management strategies, and developing governance systems to allow for adequate long-term policies to support the biological and socioeconomic longevity of the fishery.

しかし、世界のすべてのマヒ漁業にとって依然として大きな課題となっているのが、非標的種や絶滅危惧種、絶滅危惧種、保護種の混獲です。この問題は、すべてのマヒ漁業に共通するテーマであり、マヒ漁業FIPが取り組むべき課題であることから、SRの活動は、世界のマヒ漁業における混獲を削減・軽減する目的に合った解決策と調達の約束の開発を支援することによって、変化をもたらす方向に向かっています。

このように、すべてのマヒ漁業に共通する混獲対策という課題を優先するグローバルなアプローチにより、マヒ漁業の持続可能な目標を達成するために必要な研究試験やその他の科学的研究をグローバルに支援し、より広い影響を与えることができるとともに、FIPsによる混獲削減目標の推進を支援します。

また、SRは、マヒの科学・研究ニーズや包括的な管理・ガバナンスシステムを確保するための取り組みを推進するプロジェクトを支援するため、各国政府、研究機関、産業界、その他のパートナーとの連携を継続します。

For 2025-2026, SR participants will focus on the following strategic priorities:

Lack of harvest control rules and harvest strategies: Harvest control rules are a set of fisheries management measures designed to keep fish stock biomass within sustainable levels. These rules define how catch quotas or fishing effort (harvest strategies) should be adjusted in response to changes in stock status. 

There has been some progress in the Eastern Pacific Ocean region toward establishing harvest control rules and harvest strategies, including recent stock assessments in Ecuador and Peru, a reduction in uncertainties regarding stock structure (through genomic and tagging studies), and the establishment of reference points and quotas in Peru. However, regionally there is no overall coordination of management or harvest. Our approach is to 

1. Request that US delegates to the IATTC support the Ecuador-Peru binational scientific agenda promoted by COREMAHI (the regional association of mahi producers and processors) to reduce uncertainties on stock structure on status and promote management based on science
2. Identify the best strategy for fisheries management, taking into account recent tagging and genomic studies that reduce uncertainties regarding stock structure
3. Support FIPs in the region in promoting the development of HCRs and reference points for their fisheries. 

Bycatch: The primary species that the mahi fishery interacts with are sharks and sea turtles. Overall, there is a lack of data (observers, standard data collection programs, electronic monitoring) on the interaction with endangered, threatened, or protected (ETP) species, making it difficult to develop appropriate mitigation techniques. Currently, most of the bycatch monitoring and mitigation solutions available in the market are high-tech solutions that are expensive and not widely distributed, making them infeasible for wide adoption by fishers in the main producing countries. Collaboration with industry and scientists on the use of technology, best practices, and traditional data collection methods is needed.

Our approach is to document bycatch and ETP species interactions, implement best practices for handling and release techniques, and trial specific “fit-for-purpose” mitigation measures that can be widely adopted to reduce bycatch in the mahi fishery globally. The SR will support ongoing participatory monitoring programs through an incentive program that will encourage the adoption of responsible practices among surface longline fishery crews, promoting data collection, safe handling and release methods, and peer-to-peer exchanges with mahi fishers from other EPO countries. with the potential to eventually scale to the Western Central Pacific and globally. We will also support the development of strategies to mitigate the mahi-mahi fishery’s interaction with ETP species.

SR参加条件

• Global Mahi SRへの参加を希望する企業は、Global Mahi Supply Chain Roundtableのリードに連絡してください。
• 参加者は、毎年、現在のSRワークプランと予算を確認し、参加同意書にサインする必要があります。
• 各企業は、グローバルマヒ SR に参加するために、年間寄付をすることが期待される。この拠出金は、現在のSRワークプランの一部として実施される活動の年間予算に基づいて決定されます。
• 参加者は、定期的なミーティング（少なくともバーチャル3回、対面1回）に参加することが推奨される。
• 参加者は、要求や必要に応じて、SFPや他の技術専門家と関わり、協力することが求められる。