Francisco Blaha

Fishers… the only real champions of industry in my opinion.

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Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Young fisheries officers I work with. If one really cares for the future of sustainable fisheries, forget ecolabels, meetings, and agreements. Just do whatever you can so all of them (all over the world) have the training and resources they need and that they can look at their salary payments with a sense of pride.

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Scallops Farmer, Cechura

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A crew member in a transhipping Purse Seiner.

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Baiter in action on a locally crewed Pole & Line

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Crew fixing the net in a Purse Seiner.

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Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Crew net mending on a Chinese Purse Seiner

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Sunrise in a Pole and Liner

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Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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MARSHALL ISLANDS

Transhipment view from the crows nest

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Crew on a Purse Seiner

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Jose from the Philippines on a Taiwanese PS. I was on my way home the next day... he still had 17 months to go on his contract. He has my full respect.

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Boarding incoming Fishing Vessels as part of PSM procedures

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Transhipment monitor ready to start his work, it may take up to 5 days (weather dependent) to tranship a Purse Seiner load.

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Onboard a Pole & Line vessel

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Inspecting an unloading in the port of Bissau.

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Urban fishermen in the shallows of the Betio Causeway.

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Being back fishing with small scale fishers was a highlight in 2018, loved it.

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Crew in a Taiwanese Longliner

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Night unloading in private ports

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Munua, a Fisheries Observer from Tuvalu doing his work

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Welcome back

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Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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Fishers in Orissa state. Working with them for a month was one of the most humbling experiences of my life.

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Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Every week, tons of fish leave the Pacific in containers aimed to Asia

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A small prayer before starting work

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Boarding Fishing Vessels as part of our PSM procedures

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People is fishing

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Training small scale fishers

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Urbsn fisherman in the Betio causeway

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One of the many awesome smiles in Noro

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An everyday scene in Tarawa, tuna is life here

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Unloaders

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Plenty fish my friend

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Unloading yellowfin in General Santos

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Controlling Transhipments in Port

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Unloading Yellowfin near Male

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UN Palais des Nations in Geneva

Panellist at the 4th Oceans Forum on trade-related aspects of SDG 14 on subsidies. 2020

Training Fisherman, Orisa State

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My home break, Palm Beach/Mawhitipana, 300 down the road of the house

Unloading Yellowfin in General Santos

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Damhra Shipyard workers

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Dahmra Shipyard workers

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Schrimp farmer

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Fisher's Cooperative cook hosting us

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Prepearing "Ceviche de Concha Negra"

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Fisher proud of his catch, Vizag

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Dried Fish Merchant

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Baiter on a Pole and Liner

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Implementing PSM in Majuro, the busiest tuna transhipment port in the Pacific.

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Resource owners in the forefront, resource beneficiaries in the background... The key problem in the Pacific tuna fisheries

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Young coastal Fisherman in Noro

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Crew member during a tea break while transhipping

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Scallops Farmer, Cechura

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Controlling Transshipments

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Crew member in a Chinese Purse Seiner

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Crew are the base, but unfortunately not a the forefront, of commercial fisheries.

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Working on the hold of a PS during transhipment up to 5 days of winching frozen tuna.

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Fruits and good sellers in Rabaul

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My friend Jan being picked up at my local wharf here in Waiheke

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Unloading of tuna bycatch in Bali Fishing Port

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On board a Pole & Line

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Transhipping crew

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Pressent for a wedding

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Subsistence fisher’s hard life, yet in incredible colours

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Coastal fisher and partner… the role of woman in fisheries is not always valued but is always there

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Small scale fisherman in Bairiki

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Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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PSM in action. MIMRA officer crosschecks suspicious vessel behaviors identified in the VMS (map on the lower left) with Logbooks, catch logsheets, temperature records, etc. found on board.

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Subsistence fisherman back from an afternoon fishing

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Subsistence fisher in Racine. Doesn’t matter where in different continents... is the same hard life.

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Pacific Island Crew on a Chinese vessel

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Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Riin from Kiribati is one of the growing number of female Fisheries Observers we have on fishing vessels across the WCP. This is very encouraging and good sign of progress in our industry.

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Working of a fishing boat was never to be easy job, but it used to be a well paid job.

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Chinese crew member on a Chinese vessel

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iKiribati and Chinese crew on a Chinese flagged purse seiner ready to tranship in Tarawa.

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Friends in charge of the fish meal unit at the locally owned tuna processing plant

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Tarqui Beach

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Controlling Longliners

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Transhipping crew

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Tarqui Beach

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Proud tuna worker, Noro

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Ferry to fishing boats in Paita

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Fishers fixing their boat on the beach

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My neighbours

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Controlling by-catch transhipment from a taiwanese longliner in Noro

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Training small scale fishers

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Crew in a Purse Seiner waiting to start tranship

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Fruits and good seller in Rabaul

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The language barrier in between skipper and port state officers... translator on the phone... one of the many challenges of fisheries compliance work in the Pacific

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Skipper looking for tuna activity in the horizon

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Subsistence Fisher

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Chinese crew in a Chinese owned but FSM flagged longliner.

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Fishers on a Purseiner (the reason why we all actually have a job)

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Boarding vessels for inspection in Tarawa

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On board a Pole & Line boat

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Unloading Tuna from the Pacific in Bangkok

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Kids in an old canoe getting 'leakage" tuna from a local purseiner

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Fixing the net in Kitano wharf, Noro

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Federated States of Micronesia

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Lunch break during work

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View from the deck of longliners while being inspected.

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Fleet in Chimbote

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Net repairing at Kitano wharf, Noro.

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Record number of Purse Seiners waiting to tranship in June 2019

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Transhipments in Phonpei lagoon

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Seen on the galley of a Taiwanese Purse Seiner

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Fishers have the best smiles

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Subsistence Fisherman

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Checking logsheets on a taiwanese longliner

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Boarding for Inspection in Rabaul

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Low tide in Chiloe

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Indonesian fisherman unloading -50C bycatch from a Taiwanese Longliner.

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Working with artisanal Fishers. Photo by Manoel Cifuentes

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Fruit seller to transshipping vessels in Rabaul

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Local fisherman in Vigo.

79% of the EU fleet is less than 10m long.

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The emptiness of the seas.

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Measuring Sharks in Tarqui Beach

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Learning to catch dinner near Nago Island, Niu Irlan

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Subsistence Fishers

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Unloading the truck, Montevideo

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Logsheets need to be completed at sea (even if you are from Taiwan)

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Purse Seiners (Cerqueros)

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Fisher's canteen cook

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Mahi (Perico) filleting, Tarqui Beach

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Taking wood to smokehouse

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Canoes based veggies seller at the transhipment hub of Raboul

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Photo by M. Capizano in Mar del Plata (my original home port)

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Crew of a Taiwanese longliner (mostly indonesians) waiting departure

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Male fish market

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Transhipment in Rabaul

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Unloading after a trip

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Local fisherman near Beira

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Transhipment monitoring in Lae

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Honiara's market wharf

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Unloading and sorting tuna in Noro

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MCS is more about people than just rules

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Fisher's widows

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Patronales de la Virgen del Mar

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Training Inspectors and Industry people in Noro

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Local cargo boat delivering goods in Munda

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Mahi Mahi (Perico) unloads in Tarqui Beach

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Unloading in Vizag

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No discarding here... all is used

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Traditional "fish payment" to the local village for using their channel

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Old shrimp trawler

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Local Fisherman comming to unload

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Unloadings in Montevideo

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Everything has a value and is eaten

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Freshwater fish shop near the Orinoco

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Doing mass balance audits

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Fisher's rest

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Paper work on transshipments

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Boarding party

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Spotting for tuna (circa 1999)

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Training inspectors

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Working on Pole and Line vessel

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Being given the Seafood Champion Award for Advocacy in 2019, was a big honour

Dusky Sound, Fiordland

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The inception of the eNoro initiative, the 1st fully data integrated port in the Pacific, from vessel arrival notification to canned tuna exports.

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