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04ROME1296
2004-04-01 14:49:00
UNCLASSIFIED
Embassy Rome
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2003 driftnet enforcement data - no violations in

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UNCLAS ROME 001296 

SIPDIS


RULSJGA Commandant, US Coast Guard
RUCOCGA Commandant, Atlantic Area US Coast Guard
RUCPDC Commerce/NOAA/NMFS Enforcement, Sustainable Fisheries

DEPT FOR OES FOR DAS BALTON; OMC FOR TINKHAM, WARNER-KRAMER

DEPT FOR EUR/WE

COMMERCE FOR NOAA/NMFS/IA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIS SENV PHSA ETRD IT
SUBJECT: 2003 driftnet enforcement data - no violations in
international waters

REFS: A) STATE 8931 B) 2003 STATE 317193

UNCLAS ROME 001296

SIPDIS


RULSJGA Commandant, US Coast Guard
RUCOCGA Commandant, Atlantic Area US Coast Guard
RUCPDC Commerce/NOAA/NMFS Enforcement, Sustainable Fisheries

DEPT FOR OES FOR DAS BALTON; OMC FOR TINKHAM, WARNER-KRAMER

DEPT FOR EUR/WE

COMMERCE FOR NOAA/NMFS/IA

E.O. 12958: N/A
TAGS: EFIS SENV PHSA ETRD IT
SUBJECT: 2003 driftnet enforcement data - no violations in
international waters

REFS: A) STATE 8931 B) 2003 STATE 317193


1. Summary: On January 22, Department and Embassy Rome
officers met with Paolo Scarpa Bonazza Buora, the Italian
Under Secretary of Agriculture responsible for fisheries.
The U/S was very familiar with the driftnet problem and
urged his Fisheries people to pass the 2003 enforcement data
to the Embassy within January 31. The 2003 enforcement
data, which we had already requested on December 2, 2003,
arrived on time and showed that all the notified driftnet
violations occurred in Italian national waters. End
summary.


2. On January 22, as requested by ref A, EST section
arranged a meeting for OES/OMC officer Stetson Tinkham with
Paolo Scarpa Bonazza Buora, the Italian Under Secretary of
Agriculture responsible for fisheries. Attilio Tripodi
(Fisheries Director) and Comm. Pietro Verna (head of
National Center for Fishery Control and Operations) joined
the U/S. SCI Karen Milliken and Federica Signoretti
represented the Embassy. Tinkham made the point that both
sides need to concentrate on completing the steps necessary
to put this matter behind us. Scarpa Bonazza emphasized
that he was very familiar with the driftnet problem and that
he was the person in his Department responsible for the
issue. Using his "power", he emphatically "ordered" Comm.
Verna to provide to the Embassy the 2003 enforcement data by
January 31, 2004. He also asked Tripodi to pass us the
names/registry numbers of the final 89 driftnet boats to
accept (or ordered to accept) the buy-out. Note: per Ref.
B, the Embassy had asked Verna and Tripodi to receive the
2003 enforcement data on December 2, 2003. Verna had told
us that, since the Port Captaincies do not make driftnet-
only enforcement statistics anymore, it would have taken a
long time to get the data. The embassy had also asked
information about the driftnet recycling program (also per
Ref. B),but never received an answer on it. The list of
the last driftnet buy-out boats has not arrived yet. End
note.

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2003 Driftnet Enforcement Data
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3. The 2003 enforcement data arrived even before January

31. In summary, all the notified violations occurred in
Italian national waters. The statistics were much simpler
than the ones filled before 2002, when the Port Captaincies
used to fill driftnet-only enforcement forms.

Custom Police: 78 inspections with 29 notified violations.
24 nets (122 km in total) were seized.

Carabinieri: Unknown number of inspections and violations -
12 nets (total 31.2 km) were seized and all of them in
national waters

Port Captaincies: driftnets violations were notified in the
usual areas (Sicily, Sardinia and Calabria),and all of them
in Italian national waters. The Port Captaincies of Rome,
Naples, Genoa, Trieste, Livorno, Venice, Ancona, Ravenna,
and Bari did not report any driftnet violations.

Catania: Unknown number of inspections and violations - 4
nets (total 17.4 km) were seized.

Palermo: Unknown number of inspections and violations - 11
nets (total 47.5 km) were seized.

Cagliari: Unknown number of inspections and violations - 18
nets (total 82 km) were seized.

Reggio Calabria: Unknown number of inspections and


violations - 23 nets (total 59 km) were seized.


4. This cable has been cleared by OES/OMS Stetson Tinkham
Sembler


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