Overview
Prospective FIPs intend to meet the requirements for active FIPs within one year. These projects are posted on FisheryProgress to help users identify opportunities to support developing FIPs and prevent the start of duplicate FIPs. Prospective FIPs are not yet demonstrating progress toward sustainability.
Beaver Street Fisheries have decided to partner with CeDePesca to design a prospective FIP, with the ultimate goal of achieving a certifiable status for the whitemouth croaker trawl and bottom gillnet fishery in Brazil.
The whitemouth croaker (Micropogonias furnieri) is one of the most abundant and intensively exploited demersal species on the continental shelf of southern and southeastern Brazil. A coastal species, it has a wide geographical distribution, occurring between the Yucatan Peninsula (Gulf of Mexico) and San Matías Gulf (Argentina).
In Brazil, fisheries management is shared between the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture (MPA) and the Ministry of Environment and Climate Change, and it is known that there has not been a continuous fisheries statistics program since 2008. However, the Permanent Committee on Management and Sustainable Use of Demersal Resources in the Southeast and South, which aims to advise on the sustainable exploitation of demersal resources, is expected to resume its meetings in 2023.
If you are interested in participating in this FIP at its initial stages, please contact CeDePesca or Beaver Street Fisheries.
Beaver Street Fisheries have decided to partner with CeDePesca to design a prospective FIP, with the ultimate goal of achieving a certifiable status for the whitemouth croaker trawl and bottom gillnet fishery in B