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Number 124 (January-March 2008)
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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
A Special
Session of the Pacific Island Heads of Fisheries was held at the
UN Food and Agriculture Organization’s Sub-regional Office for
the Pacific Islands headquarters in Apia, Samoa, from11–13
February 2008. The purpose of the Special Session was to review
and endorse a revised strategic plan for fisheries management
and sustainable coastal fisheries in the Pacific Islands. The
original strategic plan was adopted in 2003 by member countries
and territories of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community. The
dynamic nature of fisheries and the ongoing economic and
socio-political changes taking place are raising new challenges
that affected the relevancy of the plan’s focus.
At the conclusion of the Special Session, member countries and
territories developed and endorsed the new Pacific Islands
Regional Coastal Fisheries Management Policy, now known as the
Apia Policy. To achieve the goal of ensuring the optimal and
sustainable use of coastal fisheries and their ecosystems by
Pacific Island communities, six guiding principles were adopted.
You will find more details on page 4.
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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SPC begins new study on
fisheries and climate change (60
K)
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Coastal Fisheries
Management Section |
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• Training on
Fisheries Statistics and Stock Assessment, Phase II
• Heads of Fisheries Policy and Planning Workshop
Heads of Fisheries Special Session
• Staff attachment (160
K)
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Reef Fisheries
Observatory |
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• CoFish loses another
staff member
• Update on country and territory site reports
• Some early results from the regional dataset
• Sub-regional workshops (340
K)
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Aquaculture Section |
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• ACIAR aquaculture
mini-projects
• Aquaculture updates
• NACA Governing Council Meeting
• SPC Aquaculture Action Plan 2007
• Freshwater prawn and tilapia farms in Vanua Levu, Fiji
Islands
•Workshop in Fiji on freshwater aquaculture
• Aquaculture is taking off in Vanuatu (492
K)
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Nearshore
Fisheries Development
and Training Section |
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• Technical assistance
to Niue Fisheries Department
• Kavieng pump boat handline fishing trials
• Sea turtle bycatch mitigation workshop and FAD fishing
workshops
• DevFish assists Tongan fishing association
• Economic benefits of a domestic tuna purse-seine
fishery (476
K)
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| NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION |
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• Growth of rare
Queensland jewel
• Review of the
State of marine capture fisheries management in the
Pacific Ocean
• Selenium in tuna protects against mercury
• Does fishing on drifting fish aggregation devices
endanger the survival of tropical tuna? (192
K) |
| FEATURE
ARTICLES |
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Nauru nearshore FAD
project - Post-implementation review, by Angela
Templeton and Michel Blanc (224
K) |
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Updates on post-larval
fish capture and culture technology transfer between
Cook Islands and French Polynesia, by Antoine
Teitelbaum (192
K) |
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JICA course on
community-based fisheries diversification in Pacific
Island States (Fiji Study), by William Sokimi (220
K) |
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The Pohnpei, FSM
experience at SPC, Patterson K. Shed and Donald David
(52
K) |
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| Complete issue in
PDF format:
Fisheries Newsletter #124
(2.2 Mo)
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