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Joint Deployment Plan (JDP)
NAFO & NEAFC
The fisheries at the Northwest Atlantic area are regulated by the NAFO Convention on Future Multilateral Cooperation in the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries. This Convention applies to most fishery resources of the Northwest Atlantic except salmon, tunas/marlins, whales, and sedentary species (e.g. shellfish). In 2009, NAFO has 12 Members from North America, Europe, Asia and the Caribbean. The Commission has entrusted the EFCA to coordinate the EU control and inspections activities in this area through a Joint Deployment Plan.
The NAFO JDP gives effect to the control and enforcement measures to ensure conservation and optimum utilisation of the fishery resources managed by the Northwest Atlantic Fisheries Organization (NAFO). The Joint Deployment Plan pools resources (inspectors and patrol vessels), from ten EU Member States and use them to ensure more effective and uniform control of fishing activities in the Northwest Atlantic. These Member States are Denmark, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania, Poland, Portugal, Spain and the United Kingdom.
Member States concentrate their inspections and surveillance activities on fishing vessels exploiting living marine resources in the NAFO Regulatory Area (NAFO RA). The Agency has chartered a patrol vessel, Jean Charcot, which will spend nine months in the area. One coordinator from the Agency will be present on board the vessel at all times, and will be in charge of coordinating inspections, which are carried out by NAFO inspectors appointed by Member States.
Control activities are undertaken on the basis of risk analysis. There are also inspections of landings of catches taken in NAFO RA. Inspection teams consist of Community Fishery Inspectors from different nationalities; the inspection vessels are pooled from different Member States or chartered by the EFCA on behalf of some Member States. Inspections are carried out in international waters, outside of the 200 miles limit of the NAFO costal states, on board all fishing vessels present in the area.
The EFCA oversees the implementation of the JDP
in close collaboration with the contact persons of the Member States
concerned. Coordinators of the Agency give on-the-spot assistance
to the joint inspection teams on board the EU Fisheries Patrol Vessels
(FPV) patrolling in NAFO RA, in order to ensure uniform implementation
of NAFO rules. The EFCA oversees the implementation of the JDP in
close collaboration with the contact persons of the Member States
concerned. Coordinators of the Agency give on-the-spot assistance
to the joint inspection teams on board the EU Fisheries Patrol Vessels
(FPV) patrolling in NAFO RA, in order to ensure uniform implementation
of NAFO rules.
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