Meeting Outcomes

6th SPC Heads of Fisheries Meeting Outcomes

49ko

Informal Papers

Inf 1 - Meeting arrangements		72ko
Inf 2 - Annotated agenda		60ko
Inf 3 - Provisional list of participants		92ko

Working Papers

WP 1 - SPC Marine Resources Division overview		72ko
WP 2 - Coastal Fisheries Programme workplan report for 2008 and work plan summary for 2009		402ko
WP 3 - Oceanic Fisheries Programme annual report 2008 and work plan 2009		2.7Mo
WP 4 - The impact of climate change on Pacific fisheries		60ko
WP 5 - Fish for food security in the Pacific		126ko
WP 6 - Aquatic biosecurity and trade		103ko
WP 7 - Implementing the ecosystem approach to fisheries management		64ko
WP 8 - Increased demands for tuna fisheries data management in Pacific Island member countries		264ko
WP 9 - Building capacity in stock assessment for tuna fishery management		133ko
WP 10 - Current status and future direction of tuna fishery observer programmes in Pacific Island member countries and territories		70ko

Information Papers

IP 1 - Draft identification document for SCICOFish Project		152ko
IP 2 - Outcomes of the 5th Heads of Fisheries Meeting, April 2006		420ko
IP 3 - Terms of Reference for the Review of the Oceanic and Coastal Fisheries Programmes		450ko
IP 4 - Terms of Reference for the joint FFA/SPC study "Forecasting the future of Pacific Islands Fisheries"		490ko
IP 5 -SPC Guidelines for Strategic Programme Plans		550ko
IP 6 - Marine studies and aquaculture training at the University of the South Pacific		58ko
IP 7 - PIMRIS - Information session for SPC's 6th Heads of Fisheries Meeting		60ko
IP 8 - Food and Agriculture Organization of The United Nations (FAO) Sub-Regional Office for The Pacific Islands (SAP)		98ko

Background Papers

BP 1 - SCICOFish		238ko
BP 2 - SMACFish		211ko
BP 3 - Planning the use of fish for food security in the Pacific		580ko
BP 4 - Use of hatcheries to increase production of sea cucumbers		434ko
BP 5 - WCPFC AND SPC-OFP: A key partnership		62ko
BP 6 - Aquaculture outputs against Strategic Plan 2006-08		62ko
BP 7 - The ecosystem approach to coastal fisheries and aquaculture in Pacific Island countries		62ko
BP 8 - Ciguatera and Related Biotoxins Conference 2008 - Outcomes of the Meeting		62ko

SCIFISH Project Steering Committee Meeting Papers

Meeting Agenda		9ko
SCIFISH - Annual Report 2008		108ko
SCIFISH - Provisional 2009 Work Plan and Cost Estimate (1 January 2009 – 31 December 2009)		54ko

Information about  SPC's Heads of Fisheries Meeting

The SPC Heads of Fisheries Meeting is part of SPC's corporate governance structure. SPC's main governing councils, the biennial Conference of the Pacific Community and the annual Committee of Representatives of Governments and Administrations (CRGA), are the ultimate decision-making bodies for the organisation and decide the strategic direction, annual work-programme and budget. However, SPC is large compared to other Pacific Island regional organisations, and its work-programme covers a number of different sectors. CRGA obtains advice from several sectoral specialist councils, and the Heads of Fisheries meeting is one of these.

The Heads of Fisheries meeting covers both of SPC's Fisheries Programmes: Oceanic and Coastal. It has historically placed more emphasis on Coastal Fisheries Programme (CFP) business than the Oceanic Fisheries Programme (OFP) because the work of the OFP is also guided by several other regional meetings involving member countries, including the Scientific Committee for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission and the Forum Fisheries Committee. However, HoF is the conduit through which any consensus formal recommendations of SPC member country fisheries specialists reach the SPC CRGA, which itself governs the entire work programme, including both OFP and CFP.

HoF also remains the only opportunity for Pacific Island fisheries heads to generally discuss domestic and reef fisheries issues and problems together, and to provide essential feedback to the direction of the SPC Coastal Fisheries Programme. Although the CFP convenes occasional specialist meetings, such as recent meetings on coastal fisheries management and aquaculture, these are to advise on special topics, and only take place at irregular intervals. The Heads of Fisheries meeting is intended to cover the entire range of work of national and territorial fisheries administrations. It may even discuss issues outside the current range of the SPC work-programme, and this "big-picture" view of fisheries is essential for longer-term planning and is also of considerable assistance to other agencies, regional NGOs and donors interested in national as well as regional issues.