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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

Year of publication 2010

Pages 86

Author FAO EAF-Nansen Project/ FAO, Projet EAF-Nansen.;Fisheries and Aquaculture Management Division

Product type Book (series)

Series number EAF-N/PR/1

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) 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.

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FAO EAF-Nansen Project/ FAO, Projet EAF-Nansen. 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/Rapport de l’Atelier régional sur l’approche écosystémique à l’aménagement des pêches dans le golfe de Guinée et première réunion du Comité directeur. Accra, Ghana, 23-26 octobre 2007. FAO EAF-Nansen Project Report/FAO, Rapport du Projet EAF-Nansen. No 1. Rome, FAO. 2010. 86p.

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