ILVO VALDUVIS An innovative way of assessing the sustainability of fishing activities Presentation for the 2015 ICES Annual Science Conference, Copenhagen Arne Kinds, Kim Sys, Laura Schotte, Koen Mondelaers and Hans Polet ‘Managing change in the Belgian fishery’
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VALDUVISAn innovative way of
assessing the sustainability of fishing activities
Presentation for the 2015 ICES Annual Science Conference,
Copenhagen
Arne Kinds, Kim Sys, Laura Schotte, Koen Mondelaers and Hans Polet
‘Managing change in the Belgian fishery’
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The Belgian fishery anno 2015
• 83 vessels; 22 793 tons/year
• Mixed groundfish fishery
• Range of fishing grounds
• 83% beam trawl
– Low selectivity
– Sea bed disturbance
– Fuel-intensive
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Towards sustainability?
• 2008 fuel crisis
– Incentive to save fuel
– Adaptations to the beam trawl gear (e.g. sumwing, lighter
nets, etc.)
• NGOs and retail
– Pressure to demonstrate sustainability (since 2010)
– Maintain market access
• Competition with other countries!
• MSC not an option …
• EU and national polcies
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A framework for changeIntegrated Sustainability
Assessment(after Weaver and Rotmans, 2006)
• Explore solutions to persistent problems of
unsustainable development
• Cyclic step-by-step approach
• Stakeholder-driven
The VISTRAJECT project (2011-2014)
• ‘A trajectory towards sustainability in the Belgian