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Number
117 (April-June 2006)
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Produced by the Information Section, Marine
Resources Division, SPC, B.P. D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia.
Fax: (687) 263818; E-mail: cfpinfo@spc.int
with financial assistance from France, Australia and New Zealand
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Editorial
Successive meetings of the Standing Committee on Tuna and
Billfish, and most recently the inaugural meeting of the
Scientific Committee of the Western and Central Pacific
Fisheries Commission, have recommended that a new large-scale
tagging project, focusing on bigeye tuna, yellowfin tuna, and
skipjack tuna, be carried out to provide new information that
will increase the certainty in the assessment of these fish
stocks.
The tagging data
generated by the project will be incorporated directly into
stock assessment analyses and will provide data on medium- to
large-scale tuna movements. As the first phase of this regional
project, tagging will be conducted in the exclusive economic
zone of Papua New Guinea (PNG), using a chartered pole-and-line
vessel. The first of two three-month tagging cruises in PNG is
scheduled to begin in mid-August 2006. The second cruise will
occur from March to June 2007. We will keep Fisheries Newsletter
readers informed on the progress of this new project.
Jean-Paul Gaudechoux
Fisheries Information Adviser
( jeanpaulg@spc.int)
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In
This Issue
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| SPC
ACTIVITIES |
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Nearshore Fisheries Development
and Training Section |
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• Merging of two sections of
SPC's Coastal Fisheries Programme
• Practical component of the SPC/NMIT Fisheries Officers
Course
• DEVFISH project update
• Training needs assessments in Polynesia and Papua New
Guinea
• Other activities of the Nearshore Development and
Training Section
• Identification tool for horizontal longline fishermen
distributed (584 K)
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Aquaculture Section
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• 17th NACA Governing Council
Meeting, Tehran, I. R. Iran
• FAO Global Aquaculture Review and Synthesis,
Guangdong, China
• Regional mariculture workshop, Guangdong, China
• Aquaculture highlights from Papua New Guinea
• Fiji Freshwater Aquaculture Industry Association
• Mud crab study tour
• Symposium on fish ponds in farming systems, Can Tho
University, Vietnam
• Mozambique tilapia eradication and initiation of Nile
tilapia pond culture in Nauru (452
K)
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Reef Fisheries
Observatory |
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• PROCFish/C mid-term evaluation
• Workshop on mapping marine habitats
• Fieldwork in the Federated States of Micronesia
• FAO/SPC regional workshop on improving information on
the status and trends of fisheries (232
K)
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Oceanic
Fisheries Programme |
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• Regional Tuna Tagging Project -
Phase I: Papua New Guinea (120 K)
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| NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION |
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• An ethic for marine science:
thoughts on receiving the International Cosmos Prize
• US designates
"World's largest" MPA in Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
• Restaurant seafood prices since 1850s help plot marine
harvests through History (136 K) |
| FEATURE
ARTICLES |
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Hooks used in longline fishing, by
Steve Beverly (132 K) |
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General bathymetry of the Pacific
Ocean, by Franck Magron (456 K) |
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| Complete issue in pdf format:
Fisheries Newsletter #117
(2.7 Mo)
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