Informal Consultation with Heads of Fisheries  (Monday 4 June 2012)

Presentations made during the Informal Consultation with Heads of Fisheries		link
Outcomes of the Informal Consultation with Heads of Fisheries		350 ko
Informal Papers
Informal Consultation Draft Agenda		32 ko
List of participants		150 ko
Working Papers
WP 1 - Internal review of the SPC Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems (FAME) Division Strategic Plan 2010–2013		88 ko
WP 2 - A proposed regional approach to improved management of sea cucumber fisheries		44 ko
WP 3 - Increasing Pacific Island participation in oceanic fisheries stock assessment		104 ko
FAME Annual Report 2011		2.2 Mo

SPC/FAO Workshop on priority adaptations to climate change for fisheries and aquaculture (Tuesday 5 to Friday 8 June 2012) 

Presentations made during the SPC/FAO Workshop on priority adaptations to climate change for fisheries and aquaculture		link
Proceedings of the SPC/FAO Workshop on priority adaptations to climate change for fisheries and aquaculture		6.8 Mo
Outcomes of the SPC/FAO Workshop on priority adaptations to climate change for fisheries and aquaculture		36 ko
List of participants		42 ko
Programme and Background documents
Programme for the workshop		120 ko
SPC: Vulnerability of tropical Pacific fisheries and aquaculture to climate change (link to book and summary)
FAO: Climate change implications for fisheries and aquaculture - Overview of current scientific knowledge		1.6 Mo
SPC Policy Brief #15: Oceanic fisheries and climate change		750 ko
SPC Policy Brief #16: Coastal fisheries and climate change		750 ko
SPC Policy Brief #17: Freshwater fisheries and climate change		750 ko
SPC Policy Brief #18: Aquaculture and climate change		750 ko

SciCOFish Second Steering Committee Meeting (Saturday 9 June 2012)

Report of the SciCOFish Second Steering Committee Meeting		720 ko
Draft agenda		60 ko
Short description of the SciCOFish Project		88 ko
SciCOFish - First Steering Committee Meeting Report		670 ko
SciCOFish - Year 2 Progress Report and Year 3 Work Plan		2.2 Mb

SPC/IFREMER Seminar on Fish Waste Utilization (Monday 11 June 2012)

Presentations made during the SPC/IFREMER Seminar on Fish Waste Utilization		link
Report of the SPC/IFREMER Seminar on Fish Waste Utilization		900 ko
Draft agenda		80 ko
Questionnaire on fish waste utilization		28 ko

FAO/SPC Pacific Islands Regional Consultation on the Development of Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (SSF) (Tuesday 12 to Thursday 14 June 2012)

Presentations made during the workshop		link
Background documents
International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-scale Fisheries - Zero Draft		960 ko
FAO Technical Guidelines for Responsible Fisheries No. 10 : Increasing the contribution of small-scale fisheries to poverty alleviation and food security		576 ko
Report of the FAO Workshop on International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries (Rome, 7−10 February 2012)		514 ko
APFIC/FAO Regional Consultative Workshop on Securing Small-Scale Fisheries: Bringing together responsible fisheries and social development (Bangkok, Thailand, 6-8 October 2010)		295 ko
COFI 30th Session: Update on the Development of International Guidelines for Securing Sustainable Small-Scale Fisheries		244 ko
FAO Fisheries Technical Paper. No. 479: Disaster response and risk management in the fisheries sector		820 ko

About SPC's Heads of Fisheries Meetings

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.