tailieunhanh - The Scottish Conservation Credits Scheme - Moving fisheries management towards conservation

With the increased use of technology to share information among law enforcement agencies and the courts, it is common for jurisdictions to place information regarding civil and criminal cases, including protection orders, in secure governmental databases or on websites to allow for easy access to case information. VAWA limits the personal information that can be publicly posted on the Internet. It specifically prohibits information “regarding the registration, filing of a petition for, or issuance of a protection order, restraining order, or injunction in either the issuing or enforcing” jurisdiction, if such information “would be likely to publicly reveal the identity or location of the party protected under such order.”. | The Scottish Conservation Credits Scheme Moving fisheries management towards conservation The Scottish Conservation Credits Scheme Why do we need to move fisheries towards conservation Across Europe fisheries management has largely failed. Many of Europe s fish stocks are overexploited or outside safe biological limits. Fisheries across Europe are characterised by fleet overcapacity heavy subsidies low economic resilience and a decline in the volume of fish landed. The Commission has recognised these problems and is addressing them in the reform of the Common Fisheries Policy CFP presently underway. But this reform will not happen until 2013 and for many fish stocks this may be too late. Solutions exist now and must be implemented immediately. The Scottish fishing industry lands about 70 of total UK landings. The main species targeted by the demersal whitefish fleet are cod haddock and whiting caught in a mixed fishery. Quotas are set for each of these species independently which makes respecting each quota for each different species a significant challenge. This is one of the root causes of discarding the practice of throwing marketable fish back into the sea as they cannot be landed. Recognising the importance of addressing the issue of discards and in order to improve fisheries management now not in several years time the Scottish Government set up the Conservation Credits Scheme. This was made possible as in the EU Council in December 2007 Member States were given the flexibility to run their own days at sea scheme as a pilot ahead of future EU-wide implementation of effort pot schemes. The Scottish Government took up this opportunity and on 1st February 2008 the Scottish Conservation Credits Scheme was launched. What the scheme is The Conservation Credits Scheme has strong conservation orientated objectives. It works to improve fisheries management by adopting best practices in stock conservation. It is an innovative scheme and the first of its kind in EU .