Objectives Incentives The management system

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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. Likely Scoring Level passpass with conditionfail PASS with conditions 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 SG60 SG80 SG100

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. Likely Scoring Level passpass with conditionfail NO PASS Document: MSC Pre-Assessment Reporting Template page 73 Date of issue: 15 th August 2011 © Marine Stewardship Council, 2011 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. Scoring issues SG60 SG80 SG100

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. Likely Scoring Level passpass with conditionfail PASS with conditions 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 . Scoring issues SG60 SG80 SG100

a. Objectives Objectives, which are