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c. Participation
The consultation process provides opportunity for all
interested and affected parties to be involved.
The consultation process provides opportunity and
encouragement for all interested and affected
parties to be involved, and facilitates their effective
engagement.
JustificationRationale
Organisations, roles and responsibilities are clearly defined across fishery and ecosystem management and research bodies.
Thailand has a consultative and democratic approach to fisheries with consultative bodies and their membership inscribed in law both at the national level and, where ordinances exist, at the provincial level.
However, there were clear inadequacies in the application of this process, as major stakeholders, fishers and processors cited only a small number of cases with DoF. Interaction with DMCR at the coastal level through
exchanges and workshops was significantly greater, demonstrating opportunity for interaction with interested parties and consideration of information obtain
ed. DoF s ited o st ai t to dialogue a d i te a tio as la k of funding.
There is no fishery specific Management Advisory Committee for Blue swimming crab, nor a process for feeding through current assessment information.
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Component Governance and Policy
PI 3.1.3 Long term
objectives
The management policy has clear long-term objectives to guide decision-making that are consistent with MSC Principles and Criteria, and incorporates the precautionary approach.
Scoring issues
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a. Objectives
Long term objectives to guide decision-making,
consistent with MSC Principles and Criteria and
the precautionary approach, are implicit within
management policy. Clear long term objectives
that guide decision-making, consistent with MSC
Principles and Criteria and the precautionary approach, are
explicit within management policy.
Clear long term objectives that guide decision-making,
consistent with MSC Principles and Criteria and the
precautionary approach, are explicit within and required
by management policy
JustificationRationale
Long term objectives are contained as part of the National Fisheries Masterplan DoF, 2008. This plan is of good quality and makes reference to EAFM; however, is not implicit or explicit in the application of the management
policy.
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Component Governance and Policy
PI 3.1.4 Incentives for
sustainable fishing
The management system provides economic and social incentives for sustainable fishing and does not operate with subsidies that contribute to unsustainable fishing.
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a. Incentives The management system
provides for incentives that are consistent with
achieving the outcomes expressed by MSC
Principles 1 and 2. The management system
provides for incentives that are consistent with achieving
the outcomes expressed by MSC Principles 1 and 2, and
seeks to ensure that perverse incentives do not arise.
The management system provides for incentives that
are consistent with achieving the outcomes expressed by
MSC Principles 1 and 2, and explicitly considers incentives
in a regular review of management policy or
procedures to ensure that they do not contribute to
unsustainable fishing practices.
JustificationRationale
There is unlikely to be strong evidence of negative fisheries incentives subsidies that would encourage overfishing.
Strengthening roles , rights and responsibilities of the various fishing groups engenders a sense of ownership. Tambon groups may therefore be interpreted as a positive incentive. Any means to establish property rights in
offshore fisheries could do likewise. Stimulating the participatory approach to fisheries management through crab banks and surrounding support
measures, if effective, and research may also engender further positive incentives.
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Component Fishery- specific management system
PI 3.2.1 Fishery- specific
objectives The fishery has clear, specific objectives designed to achieve the outcomes expressed by
MSC’s Pri ciples a d .
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a. Objectives Objectives, which are