Yap Summit Community Sector - Yap State Government

YAP STATE GOVERNMENT
Marine Life Total Yap Yap %
CLAM
Total 6,499 1,254
Consume 5,283 1,229 98.01
Sell 82 3 0.24
Both 1,134 22 1.75
Figure 16 Marine Harvesting & Fisheries
Source: Yap State Census 2010
Links with other sectors
Existing
Link between MRMD and YFA.
Suggested
Link between Marine Resource, YFA, Public Safety, OPB, and DY&CA.
The Sector through existing reviews and/or policies
U.S. Department of Interior: Report to Congress on the First 5years Review of the Compact of free Association
with the Federated States of Micronesia (2010)
N/A
FSM: Comments from the Federated States of Micronesia on the Five Year Review of the Amended Compact of
Free Association (2011)
pp. 58. “The primary source of local revenue at the national level remains through the sale of tuna fishing licenses
and the foreign fleets in FSM waters are growing per the pecuniary prerogatives of a developing nation. Ecological
pressures therefore are on upswing.”
Yap: work in progress towards a local perspective
As recalled in the Private Sector Session, during the National Economic Symposium (NES) held in 2011, few
recommendations were given to define a Yapese vision on the local Fisheries Sector. These included reviewing
existing laws and regulations for YFA to market fish and other marine species, and for MRMD to regulate
sustainable use and production. Infrastructural improvements such as purchasing additional purse seiners, longliners
and in-shore fishing vessels were perceived as needed. Additionally the further investment
recommendations were identified during the NES: scaling back NORMA’s licensing of foreign fishing vessels;
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