Related items
Showing items related by metadata.
-
Brochure, flyer, fact-sheetPartnering for sustainability and biodiversity in ABNJ 2024
Also available in:
No results found.The ocean Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ) are managed collaboratively by subregional and regional organizations due to their distance from coastlines and lack of specific national responsibility. The Common Oceans Program focuses on the sustainable use and biodiversity conservation of these zones. The Program is composed of five key projects that notably aim to improve tuna and deep-sea fisheries management, foster partnerships in the Sargasso Sea, and enhance cross-sectoral cooperation. For tuna fisheries, the Program seeks to ensure sustainable fishing practices, decrease bycatch through innovative monitoring, and combat illegal, unreported, and unregulated (IUU) fishing by strengthening regulatory frameworks. In deep-sea fisheries, efforts focus on supporting the adoption of long-term management plans for key stocks and improving data collection. For the Sargasso Sea, the Program is developing a first of its kind socio-ecosystem diagnostic analysis and setting up a Strategic Action Programme to guide conservation efforts. The Program also focuses on cross-sectoral cooperation, enhancing regional and national capacities to manage increasing human activities in the ABNJ. This includes developing training programmes to support well-informed decision-making and promote compliance with the new international agreement on the conservation and sustainable use of marine biodiversity beyond national jurisdiction (BBNJ). -
Book (stand-alone)Report of the FishFAD project inception workshop 2021
Also available in:
No results found.The project “Enhancing livelihoods and food security through fisheries with nearshore fish aggregating devices in the Pacific” or FishFAD project is designed to contribute to the safe, sustainable development of nearshore fish aggregating device (FAD) fisheries, supported by co-management approaches and the development of value-adding and alternative livelihoods to diversify income sources. Fisheries remain an important source of food, income, and cultural identity for Pacific Island nations. While the majority of fish consumed locally comes from coastal fisheries, production has not increased significantly in recent decades despite indications at the national level in many countries of increasing fishing pressure. The project covers the following countries: Fiji, Kiribati, Marshall Islands, Palau, Samoa, Tuvalu, and Vanuatu. -
No Thumbnail AvailableBook (stand-alone)Proceedings of the International Conference on integrated Fisheries Monitoring 1999
Also available in:
No results found.The Conference was co-hosted by the Governments of Australia and Canada in co-operation with the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and with the support of the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), USA, and the New South Wales Department of Fisheries, Australia. More than 160 delegates from 26 countries participated and 26 papers were presented. The Conference was held in response to a recommendation made at the 1996 FAO/Japan Technical Consulta tion on Wastage in Fisheries (Tokyo) which identified as a key concern the lack of reliable, basic level data from the majority of global fisheries, particularly when attempting to estimate global discards and the incidental mortality of non-target species. The purpose of the Conference was to address the challenges and opportunities of fisheries monitoring that are common to many fisheries. The Conference speakers, panel discussions, and workshops were organized around the following five main t hemes: 1) Rational for monitoring programmes - conceptual and legal frameworks, 2) Perspectives on monitoring from key stakeholders, 3) Designing, executing and analysing monitoring programmes, 4) Key components and issues for monitoring programmes; and 5) Integrated monitoring. The recommendation that came out of the Conference was presented to the 1999 Meeting of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI). It stated that the FAO Fisheries Department should undertake the preparation of guidelines fo r the integrated monitoring of fisheries within the context of the FAO Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries with the aim to improve the management of fisheries and the sustainable use of living resources, through the formulation of an appropriate framework for the collection of relevant data and information from fisheries and their associated ecosystems.
Users also downloaded
Showing related downloaded files
No results found.