Sustainable tuna fishing in the South Pacific Student Activities Case Study Teacher's Notes Tuna fish as a resource Classify tuna fish as a resource according to the following categories - renewable/non-renewable, natural/cultural, finite/infinite. Explain what is meant by the term 'sustainable' and how this concept would apply to tuna fishing. Study the information on the FFA in the case study text. Explain the difference between an EEZ and the High Seas. Suggest why conflict might occur between distant fishing nation fleets and local national governments over tuna in an EEZ. Spatial patterns and South Pacific island FFA members Refer to the FFA homepage at http://www.ffa.int and go to Members. Which country has the largest EEZ? Which country has the smallest EEZ? Construct a chloropleth map showing the distribution of EEZs by size. Classify EEZs as being large/medium/small in scale. Describe the distribution pattern shown on the map. Go to http://www.odci.gov/cia/publications/factbook and then go to Country Listing. Next select each member country of the FFA as named on the map provided by your teacher, and for each country go to Economy. Alternatively, go to http://www.dfat.gov.au/geo/index.html. Select a country, then go to Country Brief and then to Economic Overview. Using the information from either or both sources complete a chloropleth map to show the following categories - countries for which fish are a very important/important/minor source of export revenue. Describe the distribution pattern shown on the map Refer to Figure 2 in the case study. Construct a second chloropleth map using three categories (high (or large)/medium/low) to show the distribution pattern of one of the following - land area or total Gross Domestic Product. Describe the distribution pattern shown on the map Comparing your two maps, describe the spatial association between the degree of reliance on fish stock as a source of export revenue and the other phenomena you mapped Work of the Forum Fisheries Agency (FFA) For the following activities refer to the FFA website at http://www.ffa.int Go to About Us. Under Achieve on the left side of the home page, go to VMS. Make notes under the following headings: What is the VMS? What can the VMS be used for? Benefits of the VMS Future Enhancement VMS Implementation Under Achieve on the left side of the home page, go to US treaty. What was the nature of the disagreement between the USA and FFA members over tuna? Use the following KGIs - location, movement and region - in your answer. Outline the action of Solomon Islands' government. What was the name of the treaty between the USA and FFA member countries? In what way did the treaty satisfy the USA and FFA member countries? Over what time period was the treaty active? Study the list of the FFA's achievements in the case study. Apart from the VMS and negotiating multilateral treaties which have been covered in Activities 8 and 9, suggest how/why the other two achievements would have helped reach the twin aims of the FFA - to ensure the sustainability of the fishery and capture a larger share of its economic benefits. Work of the Oceanic Fisheries Program Go to the Secretariat of the Pacific Community website at http://www.spc.int. In the topic box on the right hand side scroll down and select Oceanic Fisheries. The three areas of scientific research being undertaken are: (i) statistics and monitoring; (ii) tuna ecology and biology; and (iii) stock assessment and modelling. In turn go to each area through the icons at the top of the Ocean Fisheries Programme page. Then go to the background notes on each area and describe how each will help develop policies for the conservation and sustainable use of tuna stock. (Note that clicking on "Statistics and Monitoring" takes you first to "Tuna Fisheries Statistics" and then, further down, to "Statistics and Monitoring Overview". The background notes are under this second heading.) Convention for the Conservation and Management of Highly Migratory Fish Stocks in the Pacific Give reasons why this Convention is probably the most important development in the long-term future management of the South Pacific tuna fisheries. Refer back to the notes in the text on the FFA and SPC. Outline how these two organizations could help ensure both the South Pacific Island countries and the distant water fishing nations adhere to the Convention. Australian Support Study the four AusAID projects described in the case study text. Imagine you are an AusAID officer appointed to evaluate the effectiveness of the projects and whether funding should be continued. Select one of the projects and develop criteria for assessing the effectiveness of the project.   Top © Commonwealth of Australia