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No Thumbnail AvailableBook (series)Report of the Ad Hoc Meeting on Management of Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southern Indian Ocean. Swakopmund, Namibia, 30 May - 1 June 2001 2001
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No results found.The Ad Hoc Meeting on Management of Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southern Indian Ocean, organized and hosted by the Government of Namibia with the technical cooperation of FAO was held in Swakopmund, Namibia, from 30 May to 1 June 2001. The meeting reviewed the status of information available relating to these fisheries and the events in their recent development. The perspectives that were discussed tried to include those of governments whose vessels were fishing on the high seas in the study area and those of the industry with commercial operations in the area. A major concern of those present was how to move to a responsible form of management in the absence of treaty system, though it was unanimously agreed that preparations for future technical meetings able to undertake stock assessments should begin immediately. A major focus of the meeting was how data could be made available given the informal status of discussions. General agreement was reached that government fisheri es scientits who had access to this data would bring such information to future stock assessment workshops on the basis that circulation of the information would not go beyond the meeting venue and that no permanent records of the data would be made available to other participants. Discussion covered various other relevant topics, including movement towards a standard of data collection and involvement of other international agencies in activities in the area, e.g. that of the Global Environment al Facility. -
Book (series)Report of the Second Ad Hoc Meeting on Management of Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southern Indian Ocean. Fremantle, Western Australia, 20-22 May 2002 2002
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No results found.The Second Ad Hoc Meeting on Management of Deepwater Fisheries Resources of the Southern Indian Ocean, was organized and hosted by Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry - Australia (AFFA) with the technical cooperation of FAO. It was held in Fremantle, Western Australia, Australia, from 20 to 24 May 2002. The Meeting reviewed the status of information available relating to these fisheries and the events in their recent development. The meeting noted the importance of securing the operatio ns data from companies, particularly those that no longer wished to operate in the study area. It was observed that the level of fishing effort in the study area was declining as catch rates fell. Attempts to collate catch data were inhibited by the small number of vessels that had been operating in the study area so that issues of national confidentiality requirements became a constraint. The meeting reviewed various models to relate resource abundance to seabed features and concerns w ere noted about the cost of management in the regions where sustainable yields from the various stocks would be notably low. Progress was achieved in establishing statistical reporting areas, which were based on bathymetric features though in reviewing the appropriateness of management areas it was recognized that much of the information needed to determine such areas does not exist. The meeting noted that there is no active fisheries management in the study area and in discussions regardi ng the management of other deepwater fisheries their rapid depletion and commercial extirpation raised concerns for the study area. It was agreed that there is an urgent need to introduce effective management measures to prevent deepwater demersal fisheries in the Southern Indian Ocean suffering the same fate. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (series)Status of Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries in 1995
Proceeding of the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Interactions of Pacific Tuna Fisheries Shimizu, Japan 23 to 31 January 1995
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No results found.This publication includes forty papers and two abstracts of papers presented at the Second FAO Expert Consultation on Pacific Tuna Fisheries held in Shimizu, Japan, from 23 to 31 January 1995. The topics of the papers include: · reviews of tuna fisheries interactions and their research including methods for their study, · new methods for studying tuna fisheries interactions and examination of their applicability, · case studies on tuna fisheries interactions, · analyses of tuna fisheri es involved in interactions and their management, and · an overview of FAO’s project that co-organized and co-sponsored the Consultation. A supplement of an indexed bibliography of papers on tuna and billfish tagging, which was printed separately, is also included. The objectives of the Consultation were to: · review and integrate the outcome of the studies on tuna fisheries interactions, · summarize the extent of tuna fisheries interactions and unresolved research problems, and · fo rmulate guidelines for research on tuna fisheries interactions. The understanding of tuna fisheries interactions was enhanced significantly by recent studies. However, the Consultation noted that the number of quantified interactions is still small due primarily to difficulties associated with evaluating such interactions. The papers providing supporting information for the conclusions of the Consultation are presented in this publication. Interactions were found to vary in significance depend ing on the biological characteristics of the species involved, the sizes of fish caught, the local and stock-wide rates of exploitation, and the distance among fisheries. In many of the studies presented, the inadequacy of fisheries data was stressed. In addition, the lack of understanding of movements of the fish being studied was noted in several papers. General qualitative guidelines presented in several discussion papers stressed that specifically-designed studies be undertaken to adequately quantify interactions. Well-designed tagging experiments were thought to provide the most reliable information about interactions. Guidelines for the collection of data, biological and ecosystem research, modelling, and alternative methodologies for studying tuna fisheries interactions are also included.
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