Pew rues lack of new ocean protections

 

The Pew Charitable Trusts expressed its disappointment at the fact that the member governments of the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources (CCAMLR) once again failed to reach an agreement on marine protections in the waters off East Antarctica. This is the seventh straight year that discussions reach dead end.

The proposed marine protected areas (MPAs) for East Antarctica, the Antarctic Peninsula, and the Weddell Sea would cover more than 3.2 million square kilometres of the Southern Ocean, making a significant contribution towards the goal of safeguarding 30 per cent of the world’s oceans by 2030 while protecting critical foraging and breeding grounds of species found nowhere else on the planet. They would also help ecosystems throughout the region build resilience to a changing climate, the impacts of which, according to the latest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, are likely to be severe in the coming decades.

The Commission also failed to adopt basic measures for regulating transhipment of Antarctic marine living resources, including requirements for reporting vessel location in the CCAMLR area and the creation of an authorised vessel list.

Andrea Kavanagh, director of Pew’s Antarctic and Southern Ocean work, issued the following statement:

“We’re very disappointed that CCAMLR did not make even basic revisions this year to its transshipment protocol—something that is much needed in the global fight against illegal, unreported, and unregulated fishing. CCAMLR’s requirements lag far behind the stronger measures that have become standard practice in other ocean management bodies, such as the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, the Inter-American Tropical Tuna Commission, and the International Commission for the Conservation of Atlantic Tunas. CCAMLR needs to get this serious gap in IUU fishing under control.

“CCAMLR’s failure to designate an East Antarctic MPA for the seventh consecutive year is also discouraging. This could have been the third in the series of marine protections in the Southern Ocean, making a significant contribution towards the goal of safeguarding 30 per cent of the world’s oceans by 2030. Without an East Antarctic MPA, critical foraging grounds for emperor and Adélie penguins, toothfish, and many other species will not be safeguarded.

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