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Book (series)Report on the FAO Workshop on Sea Cucumber Fisheries: An Ecosystem Approach to Management in the Pacific (SCEAM Pacific), Nadi, Fiji, 15-18 November 2011 2012
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No results found.Widespread overfishing threatens the sustainability of sea cucumber fisheries and the important role they play in the livelihoods of coastal fishers. The SCEAM Pacific workshop was jointly funded and coordinated by the FAO, the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research, the Secretariat of the Pacific Community and Southern Cross University in November 2011. The workshop brought together fishery managers from 13 Pacific island countries to foster improved management plans for PACIFIC sea cucumber fisheries. Seminars by the workshop facilitators presented contemporary fisheries science and new paradigms for management. Pre-workshop questionnaires, workgroup sessions and plenary discussions were used to help participants decide on appropriate objectives, regulatory measures and management actions for each fishery. The workshop outputs given in this report reveal the constraints and issues facing Pacific sea cucumber fisheries, and the proposed managemen t changes and research priorities of the fishery managers. -
Book (series)Report of the Workshop on International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries, Rome, Italy, 7–10 February 2012 2012
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No results found.In June 2011, the twenty-ninth Session of the FAO Committee on Fisheries (COFI) recommended the development of international guidelines for small-scale fisheries (“SSF Guidelines”). As part of its strategic development process, the FAO Secretariat is engaging in an extensive consultative process with governments, regional organizations, civil society organizations, and small-scale fishers, fish workers and their communities. In this context, a consultative workshop on International Guide lines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries was convened in Rome, Italy, on 7–10 February 2012. The workshop brought together about 30 experts from government, regional organizations, civil society and academia to further discuss the structure, overall considerations and thematic coverage of the Guidelines and to consolidate ideas put forth in the regional and national consultations. Advice was given concerning next steps and additional activities in the guidelines development process. The workshop confirmed the importance of small-scale fisheries as a contributor to poverty alleviation, food and nutrition security, and economic development. The SSF Guidelines should complement the Code of Conduct for Responsible Fisheries (CCRF) and draw on its principles and approaches and the discussions confirmed that the guiding principles of the SSF Guidelines should include good governance and human rights. Additional principles, approaches and frameworks to be ref erred to include equity, economic viability, ecosystem based, holistic and integrated approaches. Participants encouraged continued and strengthened collaboration and partnerships, both with regard to the development of the SSF Guidelines as well as for their implementation. The workshop noted the need to build bridges between different stakeholder visions – within the fisheries sector as well as outside – to ensure coherence. A new vision on how to ensure access for small-scale fisher ies communities and giving them resource stewardship responsibilities may be needed, reflecting the need for combining livelihood security and environmental sustainability as one cannot be achieved without the other. Participants stressed that the small-scale fisheries sector should not be portrayed as one in need of aid and as being development dependent, but as a real contributor to socio-economic development and livelihood security. The SSF Guidelines should be a set of ideals to em power the sector and it will be important to create awareness of the potential of small-scale fisheries – if supported and not marginalized – and to build political will at all levels. The workshop agreed that the SSF Guidelines can become a powerful tool in achieving sustainable governance and development of the sector. Support to their implementation will be important, requiring concerted efforts and organizational development and strengthening of capacities at all levels. -
Book (stand-alone)Report of the seventh session of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Commission, Maputo, Mozambique, 12-16 October 2015 / Rapport de la septième session de la Commission des pêches pur le Sud-Ouest de l’océan Indien. Maputo, Mozambique, 12-16 octobre 2015 2017
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No results found.Attending the seventh session were delegates from Comoros, Kenya, Madagascar, Maldives, Mauritius, Mozambique, Seychelles, Somalia and the United Republic of Tanzania. Representatives of the African Union (AU-IBAR), Commission de l’océan Indien (COI), Common Market for Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), European Commission (EC), the German International Development Agency (GIZ), the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences on behalf of the Swedish Inte rnational Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA), the World Bank (WB) and the Worldwide Fund for Nature (WWF) also attended the session as observers.The Commission noted the work since the sixth session with satisfaction, considered the report of the Scientific Committee and its recommendations, noted the positive outcomes of the Working Party on Collaboration and Cooperation in Tuna Fisheries, revised the SWIOFC Rules of Procedure, raised matters relating to the establishment of a SADC Regional Monitoring, Control and Surveillance centre in Maputo, discussed the inclusion of the regional component of the South West Indian Ocean Fisheries Governance and Growth project (SWIOFISH1) within the SWIOFC Secretariat, established a Steering Committee for the project, and approved SWIOFCs work programme. The Commission elected Madagascar (Chair), Maldives and Tanzania (Vice-Chairs) to steer the Commission intersessionally and at the eight session in Madagascar, in 2016.
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