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VNR Fight IUU Thailand

Thailand, the world’s third largest seafood exporter, has intensified the crackdown on illegal fishing to achieve the sustainability of marine resources.

Country Thailand

Duration 8m31s

Edit Version International

Video Type Video News Release (VNR)

Date 06/04/2019 7:50 PM

File size 921.72 MB

Unique ID UF2T4J

All editorial uses permitted

Production details and shotlist

UNFAO Source FAO Video

Shotlist LOCATIONS: off the coast of Satun, Samut Sakorn, Bangkok, Thailand / Maldives / Rome, Italy

DATE: 5 March 2017/ September 2018/ 21, 24 May 2019

SOUND: Natural / English / Thai

LENGTH: 8:31

SOURCE: FAO

ACCESS: ALL

Location: Samut Sakorn, Thailand, Domestic port, May 24, 2019

1. High angle shot of lifting fish catch from ship’s hold

2. Hands grabbing containers of fish and passing them on

3. Wide shot man passes on container of fish and it’s passed into truck

4. Wide-shot men pass fish into truck

5. High angle shot of hands passing along container of fish

6. Wide Shot of men passing containers of fish into truck

7. High Angle shot of stacking containers of fish onto a truck

Location: off the coast of Satun, Thailand, March 5, 2017

8. POV shot from boat in ocean moving in the ocean

Location: Bangkok, Thailand, May 21, 2019

9. SOUNDBITE ( English) Simon Nicol, Senior Fishery Officer, FAO “ The loss of fish due to IUU (illegal, unreported and unregulated) impacts our ability to know now sustainable our fisheries are and what are the sensible catch limits that should be regulated around our fisheries. IUU fishing removes income away from honest fishers and from economies that might be dependent on those fisheries.”

Location: Fish processing factory, Maldives, September 2018

++AUDIO AS INCOMING++

10. Close Up of Tuna

11. Close Up of pricking a tuna

12. Hands cutting fresh tuna

Location: Samut Prakan, Thailand, designated international port, May 24, 2019

13. Port State Fishery inspectors exit office

14. Port State Fishery inspectors walking to a vessel

15. Port State Fishery Inspectors go onboard fishing vessel

16. Wide-shot inspectors interview shipmaster

17. Jaruwan Sonphatkaew, Port State Fishery Inspector talks to shipmaster

18. Port State Fishery inspector looks over vessel documents

19. SOUNDBITE ( English) Jaruwan Sonphatkaew, Port State Fishery Inspector, Thailand, “We compare the original documents to the copies they had submitted for the advances request to enter form. Then after that we check the logbook. We check the VMS (Vessel Monitoring System) unit.”

20. Boat staff showing log book to Jaruwan Sonphatkaew, Port State Fishery Inspector

21. Close-up of vessel’s log book

22. Boat staff showing inspectors Vessel Monitoring System (VMS ) unit

23. Close-up of VMS unit

24. SOUNDBITE ( English) Jaruwan Sonphatkaew, Port State Fishery Inspector, Thailand, “And then we issue the Port Inspection Report. It’s called the PIR. This PIR we also distribute to the flagstate of the vessel as well as according to the guidelines of the PSM agreement (Port State Measures Agreement). After that we allow the offloading or the use of the port. The vessel can start to continue their activities requested. During the offloading we observe the weight and species of the fish. “

25. High angle shot of contents of fish hold pan to inspector officer observe the contents of the fish and staff of vessel

26. Thai workers sort through frozen tuna in the fish hold to prepare to be lifted out by net

27. Thai worker pries frozen tuna apart for prepare to be lifted out by net

28. Vessel staff shows port inspector a document

Location: Department of Fisheries, Fisheries Monitoring Center, Bangkok, Thailand - May 21, 2019

29. SOUNDBITE ( English) Adisorn Promthep, Director General Department of Fisheries, Thailand “The market is one thing that I think is a good tool to eliminate or fight against IUU. Not just try to catch them in the acts when they do the fishing. It’s very difficult because the ocean is so huge. However, if they cannot sell their products this is the most important part that we can control.”

Location: Samut Prakan, Thailand, designated international port, May 24, 2019

30. Vessel staff and Thai workers prepare a net full of frozen tuna to be lifted by net, the net is pulled up and lifted out of the hold

31. Port inspectors monitor the offloading of the tuna

32. Tuna being offloaded the boat, lifter and dropped into a truck

Location: Department of Fisheries, Fisheries Monitoring Center, Bangkok, Thailand - May 21, 2019

33. Wide-shot of the fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance centre in Bangkok

34. Wide-shot of worker monitoring screens at the fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance centre

35. Close-up of computer screens at the fisheries monitoring, control and surveillance centre

Samut Prakan, Thailand,domestic port, May 24, 2019

36. Port inspectors checking passports and documents of a fishing crew of a domestic Thailand vessel

37. Wide-shot port inspector checks documents of the crew of a domestic fishing vessel

38. Inspector wears a “Stop IUU” Shirt

Samut Prakan, Thailand,domestic port, May 24, 2019

39. Inspectors come onboard a domestic fishing vessel for inspection and look in the cargo hold

40. Fish in the hold

41. Inspectors examine the fishing net

42. Inspectors measure the size of the fishing net holes

Samut Prakan, Thailand, designated international port, May 24, 2019

43.

44. Port State Fishery inspector looks at vessels equipment monitor

45. Close-up of the vessel monitor

46. Port State Fishery inspectors exit the room

Rome, Italy, July 2016

47. Various of fight against IUU fishing ceremony in FAO

Script STORYLINE:
Thailand, the world’s third largest seafood exporter, has intensified the crackdown on illegal fishing to achieve the sustainability of marine resources.

Starting from 2015, Thailand revised its legislation and legal frameworks and developed a national plan of action to fight illegal, unreported and unregulated (IUU) fishing.

The country opened the Fisheries Monitoring Center at the Department of Fisheries, requiring all inter-national vessels to be licensed and use a Vessel Monitoring System (VMS) tracking unit, and imple-mented a Port In-Port Out inspection programme.

The EU removed Thailand from a list of countries failing to tackle illegal fishing this January after finding that the country had addressed significant shortcomings in its billion-dollar fisheries sector through stricter regulation of IUU fishing. Improvements included remote monitoring of fishing at sea and strengthening inspections at port.

Thai Port State Fishery inspectors inspectors at the Samut prakarn pier south of Bangkok inspect eve-ry foreign vessels which dock at Samut prakarn.

The inspection team photograph the vessel and compare the stated description of the vessel with what they see. They board the vessel and interview the captain and check the records and the ship’s log. They check and validate the VMS system, which is the electronic system that sends identification and location signals to the Fisheries Monitoring Center at the Department of Fisheries and other VMS sta-tions - system that allows for data on where any ship is at any given time.

Next, the Inspectors look at the catch, and verify the species and the amount. The catch is then off-loaded. Once off-loaded, it is weighed in the truck.The final step is that the inspectors write and sub-mit an inspection report.

Thailand acceded to the Port State Measures Agreement (PSMA) in May, 2016.

The PSMA, an international treaty brokered by FAO, entered into force in 2016. Today, more than 100 countries have adhered or are preparing to do so.

The PSMA requires foreign vessels to submit to inspections at any port of call, if deemed necessary by port states, and for such states to share information on detected violations. The agreement strengthens prior rules requiring countries to control the activities of their own fishing fleets and is designed to raise the cost of IUU fishing by making it harder for wrongly-caught fish to be sold.

IUU fishing is estimated to account for up to 26 million tonnes a year, or around one-fifth of the glob-al catch, and undermines efforts to ensure sustainable fisheries through effective fish stock manage-ment measures around the world. Currently, one-third of the world's fish stocks are being caught at biologically unsustainable levels - up threefold from the mid-1970s. "

Currently, adhering Parties comprise more than half of the planet's coastal states.

The International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated Fishing is celebrated on 5 Jun 2019.

On 5 December 2017 the United Nations General Assembly agreed to a resolution proposed by FAO on sustainable fisheries, thereby declaring 5 June as the International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing.

The first International Day for the Fight Against Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) Fishing was celebrated for the first time on 5 June 2018, with FAO as the lead agency for the new internation-al day. The date was selected because 5 June is the date, in 2016, when the first international treaty designed to end illegal fishing – the FAO Port State Measures Agreement – entered into force.

This international day is an important opportunity to highlight efforts taking place globally, regionally and nationally to combat illegal fishing. We welcome all efforts by member countries, fisherfolk or-ganizations, civil society organizations, the fisheries industry and consumer groups to spotlight the im-portance of the fight against illegal fishing on this international day.

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