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7
SPC HOF meeting
Fisheries Aquaculture and Marine
Ecosystems Division
Director’s Overview
Topics to be Covered
• Part 1
- Organisation of the Division; Funding and Staffing
- Our planning process and the Annual Report 2010
- Progress in implementing HOF recommendations
(Information paper 2)
- Some gaps in service delivery, and proposals to
address them (Working paper 1)
• Part 2
- Work of the Director’s Office – 2010 and 2011
plans (Working Paper 2)
FAME Division
Director
Information Unit
CRISP Project
Oceanic Fisheries Programme
Coastal Fisheries Programme
• Stock Assessment and
Modelling
• Data Management
• Fisheries Monitoring
• Ecosystem Monitoring and
Analysis
• Coastal Fisheries Science and
Management
• Nearshore Fisheries
Development
• Aquaculture
Funding and Staffing
Director
OFP
CFP
Professional
4
25
13
Technical
4
19
0
Administrative
1
2
3
Total
9
46
16
71 Staff at 1/1/2011
Female – 31
P.I. Professional – 9
Location
No.
Noumea
66
Pohnpei
3
Suva
1
Papeete
1
Planning Process
Strategic Plan Objectives and Results
V
JCS > Annual Work Plan Activities < Consultations
V
Individual Staff Work Plans
V
Implementation during the year < Urgent Requests
V
Staff Appraisals - Annual Report (Annex 4)
Annual Report 2010
• Based on report to CRGA
• Updated with inclusion of some
detailed ‘highlights’
• Meetings
• Publications
• Summary of country-by-country
activities
• Detailed report on annual
workplan
Follow-up on HoF Outcomes
• HoF #6 – 2009
- Strategic initiatives Review, Strategic Plan,
Future of Fisheries
- Funding Shortfall in 2009/10,
Reliance on projects
- Coastal Fisheries –
Food security, D/W Snappers
- Oceanic Fisheries –
Observers, Stock assessment
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Mini-HoF – 2010
Deep water Snappers
Observer support
Biosecurity
Ad-hoc advice
National level advice on
Oceanic Resources
See IP2 for Details
Some Gaps in our Response
• Deepwater snapper – build
capacity for stock assessments
• Aquaculture Biosecurity regional support for aquatic animal
health
• Tuna Fishery Monitoring support for port sampling with
emphasis on artisanal tuna fishing
• Tuna Ecosystem Monitoring improving the information base of
ecosystem modelling
Possible new food security project
• Extended Tuna Tagging –
Possible climate change project
Part 2
Director’s Work in 2010
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Future of Fisheries Study completed.
New oceanic/coastal projects initiated.
MSWG Oceanscape Initiative.
SPC Sustainable Financing discussions.
Food security summit.
Liaison with FFA & FFC, MSG.
Missions to Vanuatu, PNG, Timor Leste.
Recruitment of new CFP Section Heads.
Administration and reporting to CRGA.
Job sizing, performance management,
etc.
Information Section
•Fisheries Newsletter in full colour
•New webpages for FAME and CFP (OFP
done separately)
•5 Special Interest Group Bulletins
produced
•Digital Library updated and distributed on
DVD
•Fisheries Address Book
•Various publications for sections
•Study of distribution of materials incountry
•Assistance with production of national
information materials (Fiji, Van, Cooks)
•Training attachments at RMC (FJ, CI)
•Media releases, IB articles
CRISP
• Last Full Year of Project
• Wide range of publications produced
and circulated; also videos.
• PCC studies in Kiribati and Marshall
Islands
• Biodiversity survey of Chesterfield
Islands
• Shark tagging
• Expert consultation on economic
valuation of coral reefs
Planned for 2011
• Director –
Oversee project management and reporting; develop new project;
sustainable financing discussions; strategic plan review; FFC and
sub-regional meetings; JCS missions & in-country work.
• Information –
Continue regular publications & services; review special interest
bulletins – new EAF bulletin proposed; new materials for field
workers in coastal fisheries management; more emphasis on
communications.
• CRISP –
Continue work on PCC; Project final review; secure funding for
activities to build on CRISP results.
Thank you for your attention
Deep Sea Snapper
• CFP & OFP Joint Effort
• CFP – data collection and management
• OFP – data analyses and stock assessment
2010 Activities
• Inventory of data (CFP & Consultancy - Mike
McCoy); Support for research students (NC & Ton).
2011 Proposed
• Workshop to specify Objectives, fishery
monitoring, data requirements and analyses (OFP
and CFP)
The Requirements
• Application of financial and human resources to
ensure collection of high quality data of sufficient
coverage to meet the needs of management
• Availability of scientific and technical expertise
familiar with the resources, their assessment and
management
McCoy M.A. 2010. Overview of deepwater bottomfish fisheries and
current management activities in Pacific Island countries and
territories. SPC report (in press).
Workshop
No monitoring data
Complete Monitoring
• Determine where each relevant SPC member fits
on this continuum
• Based on country objectives determine what type
of quantitative analyses can be provided given the
level of monitoring data available.
• Form the specifications for SNAPMAN (the
snapper equivalent of TUFMAN).
Resources
• Workshop to dovetail OFP Stock Assessment workshops
• Members need to identify who from each country will be
responsible for DSS and send to workshop
Project proposals
• NC – FPF proposal to contribute to SNAPMAN
development, participate in workshop, pilot project on
data collection.
• PICs – AUSAid proposal for assistance, including
SNAPMAN rollout, data collection, development of
national capacity for stock assessment to MSc level, and
science officer to support analyses.
• Current support to be strengthened (eg Tonga PhD).