FMA 11 MANAGEMENT FRAMEWORK
2022-2027

The FMA 11 Management Framework seeks to address four priority issues considered to be transboundary in scale (across Regions V, VI and VII and the seven provinces) and require high-level coordination among national agencies, local governments and stakeholder groups. These issues include: (1) declining fish catch; (2) rampant IUU fishing, (3) lack of capacity for coordinated fisheries law enforcement, and (4) insufficient and unsustainable livelihoods for marginal fishers. 

The Framework also takes cognizance and supports actions to address twelve other local issues, such as waste management, quarrying, coastal habitat degradation, coastal industrial development, etc., that are area-specific and/or are the primary concern of local institutions.

The five goals of the FMA 11 Management Framework in this 5-year period are: (1) practical elimination of top IUU fishing practices (trawl, hulbot-hulbot, use of fine mesh gear, blast fishing and intrusion of commercial fishing in municipal waters); (2) establishment of capacitated and well-coordinated fisheries law enforcement; (3) regulation of fishing activities to restore and sustain priority fisheries stocks; (4) establishment of inter-agency program for livelihood support in partnership with the private sector; and (5) strengthening of the FMA institutions and management processes.

Check out below what the FMA 11 Management Framework has to offer!