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State security agencies should have equipment, including patrol boats, vehicles, radio communication, aerial survey or coordination with air force or police, etc. to
effectively survey the coastline and enforce the law.
● MSC methods and effective enforcement mechanisms should be adopted, including
training fishing officers observers to accompany industrial fishing vessels-domestic and foreign-to ensure these vessels real-tim
e catch submissions, effort data and payment of revenues.
● Computer-based, satellite-aided surveillance and survey activities, including the use
of Vessel Monitoring Systems VMS, real-time data and revenue collection system should be established nationwide. Information should then be sent to a central
processing and analysis center.
7.3 Fisheries Regulatory Regimes and Administration
● Somalia should have a more explicitly decentralized fisheries administration with clearly
outlined state authorities and jurisdiction. Management of near shore waters and small- scale fisheries could be delegated to state authorities and federal authorities retained
for larger scale commercial and industrial fishing and large pelagic fisheries. As stocks like tuna are shared with other countries in the region, national jurisdiction is needed to
manage them, as it requires coordination with Regional Fisheries Management Organizations. Along with decentralization, collaborative management schemes should
be developed, which will likely need some form of regional management committee, especially for the wide-ranging pelagic species, but not excluding community based
schemes that could be especially appropriate for demersal stocks. The role of traditional clan leaders in co-management institutions should be considered. As suggested in the
Framework for Fisheries Legislation, these committees will be the primary agents for managing fisheries in Somali regional waters and will play a decisive role in combating
IUU fishing, by adopting and implementing management measures. These measures, among other things, could include sharing information and coordinating on IUU matters
with neighboring regional committees, improving monitoring and control programs and adopting of better regulations for matters of regional importance.
● TURFs and associated co-management committees for each TURF would seem to be an
appropriate regulatory model to pilot. TURFS are often associated with fisheries, marine reserves or no-take zones and are more appropriate for locations that rely on demersal
stocks. For pelagic regimes, regional style co-management groups would be more appropriate and using size limits no juveniles and seasonal closures would be good
starting points, as developing better catch, effort data and stock assessment capabilities can lead to considerations of quota systems and catch shares.
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7.4 International Cooperation to Combat IUU Fishing
