1-Raw Material Assessment MethodologyThe IFFO RS standard already accepts fisheries that are certified to the MSC standard as an approved raw material without the requirement for any further assessment assurance. However, as the unit of certification for the standard is the factory the standard does not insist upon this level of certification, but does require applicant fisheries to be able to exhibit a high level of compliance to the key clauses of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries 1995 in the form of a set of IFFO RS Approval CriteriaThe current methodology was developed using the key clauses of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries 1995 to assess the responsible management credentials of a whole fish fishery used to product IFFO RS compliant marine ingredient. The fishery assessment methodology has been found to be effective on fisheries that are predominantly, single species and already have an abundance of scientific research in place to support the long management of the fishery.A number of fisheries used in fishmeal and fish oil product which are from this type of fishery category have been assessed and successfully approved, but the raw material assessment teams have found that, for fisheries that are defined as mixed and have little scientific data, this current methodology alone has been found to be less effective and could lead to some inconsistencies between fisheries assessments. To rectify this issue the IFFO RS programme conducted a feasibility study on the use of the Asia-Pacific Fishery Commission (APFIC is an FAO Article XIV body with 21 contracting governments to the Commission) guidelines that were developed for their mixed trawl fisheries and concluded that components of these APFIC guidelines could be used in a broader manner to adapt the existing IFFO RS fishery assessment process, especially for fisheries that may wish to join the IFFO RS programme. Specifically, the incorporation of a risk assessment matrix and productivity-susceptibility analysis could improve the ability of the IFFO RS programme to assess fisheries which have limited information (Data Deficient) and those managed as multi-species fisheries. Additionally, such measures could potentially reduce the level of subjectivity present in the scoring system by helping to provide more clearly-defined clause ratings.
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