th
9
SPC HOF Meeting
(Noumea, 6-12 March 2015)
Coastal Fisheries Programme
Outline
• Brief overview of the CFP goal, structure and
funding (Lindsay Chapman)
• Coastal fisheries science and management
activities in 2013/14 and proposed for 2015/16
(Ian Bertram)
• Aquaculture activities in 2013/14 and proposed
for 2015/16 (Robert Jimmy)
• Nearshore fisheries development activities in
2013/14 and proposed for 2015/16 (Michel
Blanc)
CFP Goal (FAME Strategic Plan
2013-2016):
Coastal fisheries, nearshore fisheries
and aquaculture in PICTs are managed
and developed sustainably
Coastal Fisheries
Programme
Lindsay Chapman
Coastal Fisheries Science and
Management
Ian Bertram
Aquaculture
Robert Jimmy
- Kalo Pakoa - invertebrates
- Franck Magron – data
Community-based management
(WorldFish Vanuatu and Kiribati)
Mariculture, Noumea
based
- Ruth Garcia Gomez
Aquaculture and aquatic
trade, Suva based
- Pita Neihapi and Rolenas Baereleo
- Tim Pickering - freshwater
- Bradley Moore - Finfish
- William Sokimi - fishing
- Jonathan Manieva – DEVFISH II **
Economics
- Ben Namakin and Tarateiti Uriam
New DFAT Programme funding
Michel Blanc
Development
Science/data – SciCOFish **
Bradley Moore- finfish
Nearshore Fisheries
Development
- Avinash Singh (IACT) **
- Jone Varawa (IACT) **
- Philip James
Post-harvest and exports **
- Timothy Numilengi
- Franck Magron – database/info
- Etuati Ropeti - CEAFM
- Possible PIJP to be recruitment
Aquarium trade **
Community-based aquaculture
- Beero Tioti – Suva based
- Sarah Teetu – Kiribati based
- Colette Wabnitz
Project administrator
- Marie-Therese Bui
Project assistant
- Genevieve Delahaei
Project assistant
- Seya Brighton
CFP staffing and funding
• January 2015: 23 professional (5 country staff) and 3
support
• January 2016: 16 professional (5 country staff) and 3
support staff
• During 2015: 6 EU and 4 Aust. funded positions finish
• New DFAT tagged funding in 2015 will support 4
positions plus hope to start PIJP programme
• 2013 and 2014 budgets of around USD $5 million (4.6
million CFP units) – roughly 30% recurrent and 70%
project
• 2015 budget will be roughly the same, but reducing in
2016 with projects ending.
Coastal Fisheries Science and
Management section
Ian Bertram
CFSM Adviser
Main activities 13/14
• Resource assessment and training (16 countries, >150
staff trained)
• Baseline assessments for monitoring impacts of climate
change (5 countries)
• End of Pacific Island Junior Professional activity (7
persons)
• Support in developing resource management
arrangements (community to national levels)
• Maintain current databases, developed country specific
information management systems
Science (assessments finfish, invertebrates,
habitats, temperature)
• Provide support for Creel/Market surveys
• Support for Biological Sampling
• Continue with Enhancing Capacity in
assessments, analysis and reporting
• Issues
• Need to speed up the completion of reports
for member countries
Management (Community-based approaches to
national management arrangements; incorporating
ecosystem-based principles & impacts of climate
change, also review of coastal fisheries legislation)
• Providing advice and support in developing
management arrangements
• Involvement/support depends on governance
levels: national, sub-national to village levels
• Training counterparts to deliver, oversee
CEAFM in-country
• Issues
• Slow process of approval for management
arrangements
• Lacking assistance/capacity to member
countries in MCS
Data management systems in support of coastal
fisheries management
Develop and maintain the following:
• Aquaculture monitoring (farm inventory,
production, process)
• FAD database (Deployment, SE & catch data)
• PNG IFAD (country specific)
• Biological data
• National management arrangements
Aquaculture
Robert Jimmy
Aquaculture Adviser
2013/2014 Highlights
 Regional aquaculture policy review undertaken to identify policy gaps in
aquaculture.
 Improved economies of scale of small scale aquaculture farmers: cluster of
farmers for tilapia (Fiji, PNG), giant clams (Palau)
 Support enterprises through improved production and marketing e.g.
sponges (e.g. FSM), giant clams, mud crabs (Fiji), seaweed (Bouganville).
 Improved hatchery facilities in countries e.g. Samoa, Kiribati, Vanuatu
 Assistance provided in the areas of aquatic biosecurity: risk assessment
protocols (new seaweed strains in Kiribati, FSM, Fiji) & aquatic biosecurity
trainings (New Caledonia)
2015/2016:Activities- Result 2.1:
Improved regional and national
capacity for aquaculture policy, planning and administration to establish clear
priorities and enable the aquaculture sector to meet current and future needs.
 Improve assistance on national
aquaculture policy in the areas of:
national aquaculture plans &
legislations (aquaculture &
aquatic biosecurity).
 Identify country priorities
through national programme
missions.
 Improve regional/subregional
frameworks on aquaculture: to
address the areas of aquaculture
statistics & aquatic biosecurity
 Assist with in-country
institutional strengthening.
2015/16 activities- Result 2.2:
Increased skills and knowledge base in the SPC
region and its member countries and territories, so as to maximize the return on investments in
aquaculture through innovative, profitable and sustainable approaches
 Improve capacity on community
based aquaculture .
 Improve production efficiency of
aquaculture through support for
farmer networks and clusters .
 Provide assistance to Aquaculture
Enterprises on product quality and
standards e.g. seaweed, sponges,
crabs.
 Improve skills and knowledge on
cross-cutting areas such as:
aquaculture extension support &
gender in aquaculture.
 Undertake evaluation of impacts of
aquaculture trainings provided over
the years.
Activities- Result 2.3:
National competent authorities supported to manage
aquatic biosecurity risks.
Assessment of pathogen risks in
aquaculture.
Undertake risk assessment of aquatic
species importation
Provide technical support on OIE reporting
in countries.
Support to implementation of sub-regional
/regional biosecurity framework.
On-going advice on aquatic species
introduction and quarantine
requirements
Areas where support may be needed
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Good governance (legislation, Plans, etc.)
Capacity of aquaculture practitioners.
Private sector involvement in aquaculture.
Community engagement in aquaculture.
Aquaculture inputs supply (seeds, feeds,
equipment, materials etc.).
• Aquatic biosecurity.
• Socioeconomic aspects of the sector have been
given less importance than the technical ones.
• Strengthened partnerships with aquaculture
players.
THANK YOU
Questions??
Nearshore Fisheries
Development Section
9th Heads of Fisheries meeting
6-12 March, 2015
Report on activities 2013-14 (IP-4)
• FAD work remained predominant
• Several fisheries diversification projects (non-tuna resources
– small pelagics and diamond-back squids)
• Increasing interest for sport fishing tourism development
(NC, Palau, PNG)
• Training in safe vessel operations, fish handling and financial
management (NZ-Pacific Fisheries Training Project)
• Economic evaluation capacity under-utilized
• Seafood export facilitation with FFA (Fisheries for Food
Security Project)
• Many inter-agency & cross-section/division collaborations
Plans for 2015-16 (IP-5)
• AusAid (Fisheries for Food Security) and EU (DevFish 2)
projects coming to an end  reduced capacity
• NZ-funded Pacific Fisheries Training Project (till 2018)
• Fisheries education projects (Vanuatu)
• Voluntary Guidelines for SSF – is there a role for NFDS?
• DRM and emergency response for fisheries –
collaboration with Geoscience Division (ex SOPAC)
• Monitoring the status of national FAD programmes
• Testing of medium-sized tuna longliner in Kiribati
Question to HOFs
What is the future role of FAME in FAD work and assistance?
• Increasing number of PICTs with sustainable/autonomous
FAD programmes
• Regional FAD workshop scheduled for June 2016
• Technical manual on nearshore FADs designs / monitoring
by end of 2016
• What’s next?
Question to HOFs
Small-scale, small pelagics, another tool in the box?
• Risk of putting all our eggs in the same (FAD) basket!
• Short-lived, fast growing species  more resilient to
fishing pressure?
• Another sustainable alternative to reef fisheries?
• NFDS can document and facilitate transfer of fishing
know-how e.g.
• Bagan fishing (coop or community scale) for bait/food fish
• Flying-fish fishing (small-scale) for food security/income
• Squids
• Many more small pelagic resources to target (scads,
fusilliers, etc) and many fishing methods exist
• Should NFDS do more of this fisheries diversification
work ?