8. Enforcement 



Morocco 



Under the terms of the new agreement with the 

 EC, the Moroccans will place observers aboard most 

 of the EC vessels fishing in Moroccan waters. All 

 the vessels fishing for cephalopods in the Atlantic 

 will be covered full time; the tuna vessels in the 

 Atlantic fishing for only four months out of a year 

 will be covered randomly. There will be only very 

 limited coverage of vessels fishing in the 

 Mediterranean since they are mostly very small 

 family owned vessels. There will be up to two 

 scientific observers on each EC vessel, plus up to 6 

 Moroccan nationals (depending on the vessel's dead 

 weight), to be hired freely by the skippers. Morocco 

 currently has about 40 trained scientific observers 

 who have the equivalent of a post-graduate degree 

 with a specialty in fisheries. The Ministry of 

 Fisheries estimates that it will be able to do the job 

 with an observer force of around 300. 



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In addition to the 300 observers, the Fisheries 

 Ministry will have to recruit, train and organize the 

 land based infrastructure both to manage the 

 organization of the observers (i.e. scheduling, 

 transport, payroll, etc.) and to process the data that 

 they will generate. Each vessel will be on a radio net 

 based in the Ministry and will feed in daily data on 

 the vessel's catch. It will be necessary to develop 

 computer programs to analyze and store the 

 mountains of data that will be generated so that the 

 policy level can use it to draw conclusions and make 

 decisions. The whole operation will be financed by 

 revenues coming from the fisheries agreement and by 

 fines levied on pirate vessels. 



Poaching by non-licensed vessels is a major 

 concern for the Government of Morocco. 

 Enforcement was recently improved through the 

 acquisition of three new British-built spotter aircraft 

 which can call for help from the Navy and through 

 better coordination and targeting. The Ministry has 

 been coordinating enforcement activities based on 

 knowledge of seasonal fishing patterns so that naval 

 vessels now look where poachers are likely to be 

 operating rather than cruising randomly in Moroccan 

 waters. Part of the money taken in on the EC 

 agreement is to remain with the government to 

 finance continued expansion of enforcement 

 capabilities. 



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