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DOUBLE DOSE OF VOLVO OCEAN RACE AUCKLAND HAS BEEN selected as a Host Port for the Volvo Ocean Race for the 12th edition in 2014-15, and for the 13th in 2018. Auckland returned to the race route for the first time in 10 years in 2011-12 after a 10-year absence, staging a spectacular stopover at Auckland Viaduct with spectators packing the Race Village and the Waitemata Harbour. Google results for the Volvo Ocean Race showed it was the second most searched term in New Zealand in 2012. In 2014-15 Auckland will host the start of the main Southern Ocean leg around Cape Horn to Itaja�� in Brazil. ���Sailing into Auckland after a 10-year gap felt like the race was coming home,��� said Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad. ���Tens of thousands of passionate fans packed the Race Village each day, and the crowds for all the arrivals plus the In-Port Race and Leg Start were among the best we���ve ever had.��� Auckland Mayor Len Brown said: ���This is an exciting win for Auckland and New Zealand���s fabled sailing heritage, and the affinity Aucklanders have with the sea which surrounds us��� My goal is for Auckland to become the world���s most liveable city. A key component of us meeting that goal, and delivering on our ambitious economic transformation objectives, is to play host to major events such as the next two Volvo Ocean Races.��� Albacore tuna quota TALKS AT THE latest round of the Western Central Pacific Tuna Commission produced agreements for a number of measures to reduce waste and to protect bycatch species in the skipjack fishery. There was recognition that stocks of albacore could support a Total Allowable Catch in the order of 100,000 tonnes, well above current catches in the order of 81,000 tonnes. This is welcome news for New Zealand Fishermen who are fighting to see that the Government stands firm on a claim for a minimum allocation to New Zealand of 8000 tonnes of catch, which is equivalent to the percentage share of the fishery that the New Zealand catch comprised, before Chinese expansion, and at the time of the formation of the Commission, when there was agreement that vessel numbers would be frozen. While the New Zealand Industry would welcome a catch of 100,000 tonnes, it, like the Pacific Islands Industry, is highly critical of the Chinese vessel expansion and of the subsidies that are paid to the Chinese fleet in terms of both vessel construction and fuel price rebates. This can only lead to an undermining of the economics of the fishery and overcatch if permitted to continue. The Industry is pressing the New Zealand Government to expose and condemn the Chinese actions which are clearly contrary to the treaty. The New Zealand industry wants the Chinese to be limited to pre-2004 effort levels like everyone else. The New Zealand Tuna industry says that unlike the Pacific Island industry, the New Zealand industry does not see a need to limit catch to improve catch rates. The Chinese are demonstrating that with modern efficient catching vessels, with the right electronics, gear and minus 60 freezers, and provided their numbers are limited to 2004 levels, and they are unsubsidised, Maximum Economic Yield will be reached in the vicinity of the 100,000 tonne catch. The challenge for the Pacific Island States is to not limit catches of other nations so they can continue with outdated inefficient fishing practices, but to modernise with replacement vessels and efficient methods. STATEMENT FROM THE NEW ZEALAND TUNA INDUSTRY ���New Zealand should hold out for a quota of not less than 8000 tonnes out of a quota of 99,000 to meet its existing catch and aspirations for the expansion of the fishing catch by Maori, customary Maori, the existing industry and recreational interests and to take account of the highly variable nature of the New Zealand Troll Fishery which is at the end of the albacore geographical and seasonal fishing range. The New Zealand fishery is affected dramatically by the impact of earlier seasonal fishing in other zones and on the high seas and also by El Nina and La Nina events. This is why current New Zealand catches are low in comparison to the quota we seek. Between 2000 and 2004 New Zealand took between nine and 11 percent of the global catch and our share of the fishery should be maintained at that level, not sacrificed to the late Chinese entries both Foreign Licensed and Joint Venture, who are fishing beyond the 2004 agreement and with a subsidised fleet. In the event that a global catch limit is not agreed at 99,000 tonnes that there should be no agreement on a New Zealand quota by officials until further consultation has taken place with the Tuna Industry.��� In brief��� FCV furore! Sanford Fisheries have admitted its low-wage Indonesian fishermen on foreign charter fishing vessels have been underpaid, and that nearly 100 workers are out of pocket by $885,000, with total underpayments possibly reaching $13 million. Sandford���s said the underpayment occurred because Indonesian labour agent PT Indah Megah Sari hid nonpayments, ���the amounts paid to the families . . . were shown as having been signed off by the families.��� National Party president Peter Goodfellow is a director of the company that uses three trawlers owned by Dong Won Fisheries of Seoul. Sanford have ordered Dong Won and PT IMS to publish notices in Jakarta newspapers calling for crew who worked between June 2009 and May 2012 to contact them so they, ���can take the rest of their salaries caused by missed counting.��� A year ago Sanford strenuously denied charges of underpaying foreign crews. Slave Free Seas campaigner, Tauranga lawyer Craig Tuck, ���if the extent of the underpayments we are seeing in the Sanford case go across the industry, and it is systematic, the true amount of underpayment could easily top $13 million.��� Immigration New Zealand investigated and found, ���substantial non-compliance��� at Sanford, saying documentation was ���insufficient, missing or written in Korean���. Sanford said: ���not all monies remitted by Dong Won to Indonesian agents in the past for crew wages was passed on to the crew���s families.��� Around $500,000 was involved. They have placed the money in a legal trust account along with a ���letter of irrevocable instruction,��� saying the money could only go to New Zealand bank accounts of individual crewmen. Sanford also put in $385,000 for previous crews not currently in New Zealand. Sanford is adamant there was no mistreatment of crews on vessels. In February, 2013, 14 of the 35 crew aboard Sanford���s Pacinui, owned by the Korean company Juahm, walked off in Timaru. The week before, 21 crew on another FCV, the Sur Este 707, also walked off in Timaru. March/April 2013 Professional Skipper 43

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