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DocumentReport of the Second Meeting of CCLME Working Group on Ecosystem Planning and Analysis
2 – 5 May 2023, Casablanca, Morocco
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The second meeting of the CCLME Working Group on Ecosystem Planning and Analysis was organized by the CCLME Regional Project Coordination Unit in Casablanca (Morocco) from 2 to 5 May 2023. This second meeting is the follow-up to the first meeting of the same working group whose overall objective was to identify the priorities for future scientific activities and development of an appropriate research programme that will be part of the full implementation of the CCLME Strategic Action Programme (SAP). Having identified the priority scientific activities consistent with the three CCLME themes, the Working Group participants defined, at this first meeting, a timetable for the implementation of the identified activities over the next five years. Thematic facilitators were also proposed to support, organize and monitor the implementation of the thematic activities. The CRODT was thus designated as facilitator in charge of the theme “habitats and biodiversity”; IMROP is responsible for the theme “resources and vulnerable species” and the INRH: in charge of the theme: “marine water quality”. From this five-year regional work plan, a work plan for 2023 was extracted incorporating activities to be implemented during that year. It’s in this context that the second meeting of the Working Group on Ecosystem Planning and Analysis was organized to further reflect on the priorities of the scientific process to be conducted in the implementation of these work plans. -
Book (series)Report of the Regional Workshop on Ecosystem Approach to Fisheries Management in the Gulf of Guinea and first Steering Committee Meeting. Accra, Ghana, 23–26 October 2007 2010
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A regional workshop on ecosystem approach to fisheries (EAF) for countries in the Guinea Current Large Marine Ecosystem (GCLME) area was held in Accra, Ghana, from 23 to 26 October 2007 together with the first Steering Committee meeting of the EAF-Nansen project “Strengthening the Knowledge Base for and Implementing an Ecosystem Approach to Marine Fisheries in Developing Countries (EAF Nansen GCP/INT/003/NOR)”. The objectives of the workshop were to introduce participants to EAF and th e EAF-Nansen project and to identify the activities to be carried out in the Gulf of Guinea under the project with focus on the year 2008. The workshop was attended by a total of 30 participants from 12 GCLME countries, the Fishery Committee of the West Central Gulf of Guinea (FCWC), the Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources of Namibia and FAO. In the introduction to EAF and the EAF-Nansen project, the need for applying an ecosystem approach to fisheries management, as reflect ed in the 2001 Reykjavik Conference on Responsible Fisheries in the Marine Ecosystem and in the Plan of implementation of the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD), was highlighted. An overview of the key concepts and processes of the ecological risk assessment methodology was given and the experience gained and results obtained from the implementation of an EAF pilot project in the Benguela Current Large Marine Ecosystem area were presented. Based on a questionnaire that had been provided prior to the workshop, an overview of the main fisheries in the region (including their social and economic importance), existing institutional arrangements in support to fisheries management and perceived key challenges that managers of these fisheries face in relation to ecosystem sustainability were discussed. For practical exercises the participants worked in three subgroups (northern, central and southern countries) with each group selecting a specific fishery (shrim p trawl fishery by the northern and southern groups, the beach seine fishery by the central group), defining its global and specific objectives and working through issue identification for the selected fishery. Participants found the workshop extremely useful, commented extensively on the novel approach to management that the EAF provides and suggested that the work of the subregional groups should concentrate first on the fisheries dealt with during the workshop. They asked that the E AF-Nansen project document be sent officially to the respective countries for information and as a means of asking for national support, including co-financing. -
Book (stand-alone)Report of the FIRST ADVISORY GROUP MEETING. Rome, Italy, 17 December 2008 2009
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No results found.The first meeting of the EAF-Nansen project Advisory Group was held at the FAO headquarters in Rome, on 17 December 2008. The meeting was attended by 15 Advisory Group members and observers and was chaired by Dr Kevern Cochrane, Chief of the FAO Fisheries Management and Conservation Service. The meeting was informed that although the project document does not make provision for an Advisory Group, from internal discussions on the governance structure of the project FAO felt the need f or an independent body that would look across the regions and would bring in experiences from outside the project area. Consequently, the Advisory Group was constituted to give direction to the project, to play the role of a global “Steering Committee” to assess the project progress, and to advise the project management on implementation of activities. The project team made presentations on project activities since inception, the project management structure including the role of the E AF national and regional Task Groups, the ecosystem survey component of the project, communications and training. Also presented were the outcomes of the Survey Planning meeting and Project Forum that had taken place on 15 and 16 December respectively and also the work plan for 2009. The Advisory Group made a number of recommendations on project implementation and outreach and asked FAO to appraise them from time to time on progress of work.
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