AREAS BEYOND NATIONAL JURISDICTION: INDIAN OCEAN DEVELOPING COASTAL STATES TUNA MANAGEMENT WORKSHOP The goal of this workshop is to create a better understanding of among Indian Ocean Developing Coastal States of the precautionary approach, harvest strategies (HS) and management strategy evaluation (MSE) for sustainable tuna fisheries and rights based management (RBM) in the context of tuna fisheries. Workshop Programme
The Event The workshop is part of the Sustainable Management of Tuna Fisheries and Biodiversity Conservation in Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction (ABNJ). Supported by the Global Environment Facility (GEF), coordinated by the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and with WWF the lead agency for a number of the project outputs. The overarching ABNJ tuna project will focus on three components: (i) supporting implementation of sustainable and efficient fisheries management and fishing practices; (ii) reducing illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing through strengthened and harmonized monitoring, control and surveillance; and (iii) reducing ecosystem impacts from tuna fishing, including bycatch and associated species. This workshop falls under component one and aims at supporting the improved understanding of the application of the precautionary approach through harvest strategies and rights based management by tuna Regional Fisheries Management Organisations (RFMOs). International experts will present on these management themes both broadly and in the context of the Indian Ocean. Days one and two will focus on the precautionary approach, harvest strategies and monitoring strategy evaluation. The third day will be spent looking at rights based management. Throughout the workshop, participants will also break out into small discussion groups, to allow for more in-depth understanding of the workshop topics. The Agenda DAY ONE 22 April 2014 Precautionary Approach, Harvest Strategies and Management Strategy Evaluation for Sustainable Tuna fisheries 0800 Registration Session 1: Introduction (Facilitator: Graham Pilling) 09:00-09:30 Opening of the meeting (Inaugural Session) Session 2: Background to international fisheries management and 09:30-10:30 origins of Precautionary Approach, Harvest Strategies and Management Strategy Evaluation Presenter: Campbell Davies 10:30-10:00 COFFEE BREAK Session 3: Precautionary Approach, Harvest Strategies and MSE 11:00-12:30 (Presenter: Campbell Davies) 12:30-14:00 LUNCH BREAK
Session 4: Overview of Harvest Strategy, Reference Point and MSE 14:00-15.30 processes in tuna RFMOs (Presenter: Gerald Scott) 15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK Session 5: Overview of process in IOTC 16:00-17:00 (Presenter: Rishi Sharma) Session 6: Summary and feedback 17:00-18:00 (Facilitator: Campbell Davies) 1800 End of DAY ONE 1900 Drinks reception DAY TWO 23 April 2014 Precautionary Approach, Harvest Strategies and Management Strategy Evaluation for Sustainable Tuna fisheries 09:00-09:05 Opening Session (Facilitator: Graham Pilling) Session 7: Recapture the discussion on Day One 09:05-09:35 Introduction to Day Two (Facilitator: Graham Pilling) Session 8: Detailed example of current MSE in IOTC 09:35-10:30 Rishi Sharma 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK 11:00-12.30 Detailed example of current MSE in IOTC continued (Presenter: Rishi Sharma) 1230 LUNCH BREAK Session 9: Issues for consideration in further development, evaluation 14:00-15:30 and selection of harvest strategies for IOTC (Presenter: Campbell Davies) 1530 COFFEE BREAK
1545 Issues for consideration in further development, evaluation and selection of harvest strategies for IOTC continued (Presenter: Campbell Davies) Session 10: Summary and new work 17:00-18:00 (Facilitator: Graham Pilling) 1800 End of DAY TWO DAY THREE 24 April 2014 - Rights-Based Management in the context of Tuna Fisheries 09:00-09:05 Opening Session (Facilitator: Graham Pilling) Session 11: Introduction to Rights based management 09:05-10:30 (Presenters: Gerald Scott and Campbell Davies) 10:30-11:00 COFFEE BREAK Session 12: Rights based management in tuna RFMOs 11:00-12:30 (Presenter: Gerald Scott) 12:30-14:00 LUNCH BREAK Session 13: Rights based management in the IOTC 14:00-15.30 (Presenters: Gerald Scott and Campbell Davies) 15:30-16:00 COFFEE BREAK Session 14: 16:00-17:00 Next steps 17:00-18:00 Closing Ceremony 18:00 End of DAY THREE Abbreviations/Acronyms ABNJ Areas Beyond National Jurisdiction FAO United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization GEF Global Environment Facility IOTC Indian Ocean Tuna Commission MSE Management Strategy Evaluation RFMO Regional Fisheries Management Organization
Guest speakers Dr Campbell Davies, Program Leader, Integrated Marine & Coastal Assessment & Management, CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research Dr Campbell Davies has a background in applied marine science, in particular spatial ecology of fish and fisheries; marine conservation planning; and development and evaluation of adaptive management systems. Over the past twenty years he has lead and participated in marine research and management issues from the tropics to the Antarctic. He also has a strong background in marine policy and management through is role as the Chief Scientist at the National Oceans Office, which focused on regional planning of Australia's EEZ, and current and previous appointments to statutory research and management advisory positions. In 2013 Campbell returned to full-time research where leads the Pelagic Population Ecology and Dynamics Team and focuses on the development and evaluation of new monitoring and assessment methods for highly migratory fish stocks and the application of adaptive management and alternative risk-based approaches to climate adaption. He holds statuary and research advisory roles for tuna and billfish fisheries in Australia and internationally. Dr Graham Pilling, Senior Fisheries Scientist, Secretariat for the Pacific Community Dr Graham Pilling works in the Secretariat to the Pacific Community s (SPC) Oceanic Fisheries Programme. Prior to this he was a principle fisheries scientist and the Head of the Seas and Oceans group at the Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science (CEFAS), based in Lowestoft in the UK for nine years, and a fisheries scientist at the Marine Resources Assessment Group in London, for eight years. During the latter period, he gained a PhD from Imperial College in quantitative fisheries science, examining the impact of fishing on the growth and stock assessment of reef fish in the Indian Ocean. Graham has worked in tropical, temperate and polar marine and freshwater ecosystems around the world, gaining in depth experience in the practical assessment and management of pelagic and demersal fisheries through a wide range of methodologies. He has chaired FAO GFCM and EU STECF SGMED stock assessment meetings on demersal species in the Mediterranean, has been an expert reviewer for a number of US stock assessments, and a member of
assessment teams for a large number of Marine Stewardship Council certifications of a range of fisheries. A key interest has been the development and implementation of models to simulate the long-term impacts of uncertainty in stock biology and assessments on fisheries management, and methods to assess and manage data poor fisheries. Dr Rishi Sharma, Stock Assessment Scientist, Indian Ocean Tuna Commission (IOTC) Rishi Sharma is the current Stock Assessment Scientist with IOTC. He has a Ph.D., and an M.S. in Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management from the University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA where he worked on graduate research relating climate forcing to global and local conditions affecting productivity of fish stocks in the Pacific Northwest (west coast of the US, and Canada). Rishi s background is in mathematics, statistics and fisheries management. He has worked and chaired International Scientific Commissions supporting Pacific Salmon research in his previous experience while in the US and Canada, and has extensive experience in computer models assessing stock status. Rishi has worked on population ecology, ecological statistics, and stock assessment models for over 15 years. While in the US, Rishi worked on Native American Treaty Right fishery issues for the Columbia River Inter-Tribal Fishery Commission and for the Quinault Indian Nation. Rishi has numerous publications on population ecology, ecological statistics, and stock assessment in peerreviewed journals and the grey literature. Prior to IOTC, Rishi worked at the Bay of Bengal Large Marine Ecosystem Project, using some of his expertise in building capacity in the region and developing regional assessment models for Indian Mackerel (Rastrelliger kanagurta), and Hilsa Shad (Tenulaosa ilisha). Dr. Gerald Scott, Member of ISSF Scientific Advisory Committee Dr. Scott is an expert on tuna fishery stock assessments. He formerly served as a senior advisor on the US NOAA-Fisheries Southeast Fisheries Science Center s (Miami, FL) resource assessment research programs, conducting stock assessment research to support domestic and international management decisions on Atlantic large pelagic fisheries resources. From 2005-2010, he
served as the elected Chair of ICCAT s Standing Committee on Research and Statistics and was previously the Chief US scientist to ICCAT. Dr. Scott has extensive experience, spanning more than 30 years, he gained his PhD (Biological Oceanography) from the University of Rhode Island and an AB (Zoology) from the Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Further to that, he has conducted quantitative stock assessment research on a diverse set of resources including Atlantic tunas and tuna-like species, marine mammals, coastal migratory pelagic, and reef resources.