00. Ocean Decade - Philippines
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The UNACOM Online and Digital Enabling Library and Index is developed to support the alignment of research, investments, and community initiatives toward contributing to a well-functioning, productive, resilient, sustainable, and inspiring ocean. The goal is to enable the government, partner agencies, and UNESCO to develop more robust Science-Informed Policies and facilitate a stronger Science-Policy Interface through the gathered data, information, and knowledge related to the Ocean Decade in the Philippines.
Particularly, it aims to:
Particularly, it aims to:
- Gather and index all publications, reports, policies, laws, legislations, articles, and other documents of the Philippine National Committee on Marine Sciences (NCMS) related to the Ocean Decade.
- Disseminate and promote these publications, reports, policies, and other documents on the initiatives and actions to address the Ocean Decade challenges.
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- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 216: Series of 2001. Obstruction to navigation in streams, rivers, lakes and bays.(Department of Agriculture, 2001-09-17)
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 233: Series of 2010. Aquatic wildlife conservation.(Department of Agriculture, 2010-04-16)This Administrative Order, consisting of 5 Chapters and 1 Annex, In line with Rule 37.1 of the Joint DENR-DA-PCSD Administrative Order No. 1, Series of 2004, is promulgated pursuant to Republic Act 9147 or the Wildlife Resources Conservation and Protection Act of 2001. It creates several authorities entitled to carry out research, control and manage the aquatic wildlife sector, such as: the National Aquatic Wildlife Management Committee (NAWMC) and establishes their composition, duties and responsibilities. This Order is divided as follows: Structures and Individuals for the Conservation of Aquatic Wildlife (Chap. I); Utilization of Aquatic Wildlife (Scientific Research on Aquatic Wildlife) (Chap. II); Fees and Charges (Chap. III); Fines and Penalties (Chap. IV); Miscellaneous Provisions (Chap. V). The Annex lays down a Preliminary List of Economically Important Aquatic Organisms.
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 230-1: Series of 2009. Guidelines for the importation and culture of the broodstock and/or postlarvae of specific pathogen free/ specific pathogen resistant (SPF/SPR) black tiger shrimp (Penaeus monodon) and culture of offspring thereof.(Department of Agriculture, 2009-12-03)
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 238: Series of 2012. Rules and regulations governing the implementation of council regulation (EC) No. 1005/2008 on the catch certification scheme.(Department of Agriculture, 2012-01-09)This Administrative Order, consisting of 32 sections divided into seven Chapters and eight Annexes, establishes Rules and Regulations Governing the Implementation of Council Regulation (EC) No. 1005/2008 on the Catch Certification Scheme. These rules and regulations aim to: 1. Comply with the provisions of Council Regulation No. 1005/2008 and its Implementing Guidelines. 2. Ensure traceability of fishery products derived from legal, reported and regulated fishing activities in the Philippines, at all stages from harvesting and processing to marketing; 3. Establish a mandatory set of procedures for the catch certification scheme; and, 4. Ensure that fishery products exported to an EU-member country originate from catches made in compliance with applicable laws, regulations or conservation and management measures. This Order shall apply to all Philippine-flagged fishing vessels that either directly supplies raw materials to EU-member countries or supply raw materials to canneries, processors or exporters for processing prior to the export of the processed fishery products to EU-member countries. This Order shall also apply to canneries, processors, and exporters which are exporting fishery products to EU-member countries. To ensure that the objectives of this Order are realized, catch landing and transshipment must always be recorded or declared; Landing of catches shall be verified and certified by authorized BFAR personnel in a Catch Validation Certificate described in Section 13 and Annex 6 of this Administrative Order; Transshipment shall be declared and reported by the vessel captain in a Transshipment Certificate described in Annex 5. No fish or fishery products caught or taken by means of IUU fishing or without complete traceability in all its stages from fishing or gathering, storage, transporting, processing up to distribution shall be exported to EU-member countries. Export of fishery product/s to EU-member countries shall only be allowed if supported by a Catch Certificate, which has been validated by DA-BFAR. Annexes deal with the following matters: General Format of Regular or Simplified Catch Certificate (including process flow for their issuance; List of Codes of Commercial Fishing Companies, Canneries and/or Processors; General Format of Transshipment Certificate; Amended Format of the Catch Validation Certificate; BFAR-Prescribed Formats of Fish Catch Reports and Logsheet; List of Fishery Products Excluded from Catch Certification.
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 245: Series of 2012. Regulations and implementing guidelines on group tuna purse seine operations in high seas pocket number 1 as a special management area.(Department of Agriculture, 2012)The Order provides for conservation, management and sustainable producing bigeye, yellowfin, skipjack tuna stocks in the high seas and exclusive economic zones within the framework of International Convention on the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Western and Central Pacific Ocean and adapted local resolutions in the Philippines. This Administrative Order covers the registered traditional group seine fishing vessels granted access to the HSP1-SMA which is the area of the high seas bounded by the EEZs of the named Federated States in the Order with exact coordination by Vessel Monitoring System. The Order provides for compliance to the criteria and procedures in the allocation of fishing access listed in Section 3 among others referring to issues of tonnage of vessel, fishing vessel registration, catch documentary compliance, no criminal record identification, letter of intent, preliminary list and allocation. The Order further provides for observer coverage, vessel monitoring system, reporting, vessel listing, monitoring of port landings, catch limit, net mesh size, use of fish aggregating device (FAD), nature of access right and penalties. The Order consists of 17 Articles.
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 237: Series of 2010. Regulations requiring the installment of Juvenile and Trashfish Excluder Device (JTED) in trawls in Philippine waters.(Department of Agriculture, 2010-10-29)This Administrative Order, consisting of seven sections, establishes the Regulations Requiring the Installment of Juvenile and Trash Fish Excluder Device (JTED) in Trawls in Philippine Waters. This Order shall cover all commercial trawls in Philippine waters and prohibits for any person to operate fishing vessels using trawl nets, including all variations and modification of trawls without V12 or H15 JTEDs in Philippine waters. The construction and installation specifications are indicated in the attached device assembly technical data sheets, and shall be a requirement for the issuance of Commercial Fishing Vessel Gear License (CFVGL). Persons, associations, cooperatives, partnerships or corporations engaged in trawl fishing shall be given a period of three months from the effectivity of this Order to conform and/or comply with. The operator, boat captain or three highest officers of the boat who violates this Order shall upon conviction be punished by a fine equivalent to the value of catch or P10,000.00 Pesos whichever is higher, and imprisonment of six months, confiscation of catch and fishing gears, and automatic revocation of license.
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 236-5: Series of 2018. Extension of FAO 236-4 series of 2015 on the rules and regulations on the operations of purse seine and ring net vessels using Fish Aggregating Devices (FADS) locally known as Payaos during the FAD closure period as compatible measures to WCFPC CMM 2017-01.(Department of Agriculture, 2018-07-06)
- Fisheries Administrative Order No. 236-4: Series of 2015. Extension of FAO 236-3 Series of 2015 on the rules and regulations on the operations of purse seine and ring net vessels using Fish Aggregating Devices (FADs) locally known as Payaos during the FAD closure period as compatible measures to WCPFC CMM 2014-01.(Department of Agriculture, 2015-06-29)