Monday, November 28, 2011

Time Event  
07:30 - 09:00 Welcoming - Welcoming participants to the conference and personalities  
09:00 - 10:30 Opening ceremony & Official speeches (Endeavour)  
10:30 - 12:30 1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs (Endeavour)  
10:30 - 10:50 › Nearshore FAD types and designs currently used in the Pacific - William Sokimi, Secrétariat de la Communauté du Pacifique  
10:50 - 11:10 › Fish Aggregating Device deployments and maintenance on Guam - Jamie Bass, Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources  
11:10 - 11:30 › American Samoa FADs Program - Nonumaifele Tuisamoa, Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources  
11:30 - 11:50 › Les DCP ancrés à Wallis et Futuna - Bruno Mugneret, Service des Affaires Rurales et de la Pêche  
11:50 - 12:10 › Cook Islands National FAD Programme - Terakura Tatuava, Ministry of Marine Resources  
12:10 - 12:30 › Status of Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) fisheries in Tonga - Sione Mailau, Fisheries Division of Ministry of Agriculture & Fodd, Forest and Fisheries  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hiti Mahana)  
14:00 - 15:40 1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs (Endeavour)  
14:00 - 14:20 › Regional overviews of the use of anchored and drifting FADs (Palau) - Lora Demei, Bureau of Marine Resources - Ministry of Resources & Development  
14:20 - 14:40 › Marshall Islands FAD Programme - Candice Guavis, Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority  
14:40 - 15:00 › Tuvalu National FAD Programme - Samuelu Telii, Fisheries Department  
15:00 - 15:20 › Les DCP ancrés en Nouvelle-Calédonie: historique, technologie, utilisation et perspectives - Manuel DUCROCQ, ADECAL  
15:20 - 15:40 › Le programme d'ancrage des DCP en Polynésie française - Mainui Tanetoa, Département Développement Pêche Hauturière  
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
16:10 - 17:30 1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs (Endeavour)  
16:10 - 16:30 › Overview of the current status of FAD deployments in Australian waters - Spooner Daniel, Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries  
16:30 - 16:50 › Mediterranean FADs fishery: an overview - Beatriz Morales-Nin, Mediterranean Institute Advanced Studies-CSIC/UIB  
16:50 - 17:10 › The Maltese FADs fishery - Mark Gatt, Agriculture and Fisheries Regulation Department of Malta  
17:10 - 17:30 › Les DCP ancrés dans les petites Antilles, avancée des connaissances depuis 10 ans et questions soulevées par le développement durable - Lionel Reynal, Ifremer - UR de Martinique  
19:00 - 21:30 Cocktail at French Polynesia's Presidential hall - Cocktail at French Polynesia's Presidential hall  

Tuesday, November 29, 2011

Time Event  
08:00 - 09:20 1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs (Endeavour)  
08:00 - 08:20 › Le DCP du parc collectif de Guadeloupe, conception, études et fabrication. - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine  
08:20 - 08:40 › Le parc de DCP collectifs de Guadeloupe, suivi et entretien. - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine  
08:40 - 09:00 › La courantologie associée au DCP et les perspectives de mutualisation des parcs de DCP collectifs - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine  
09:00 - 09:20 › Le parc de DCP collectifs de Martinique, d'Haïti et de Mayotte - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine  
09:20 - 10:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
10:10 - 12:15 1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs (Endeavour)  
10:10 - 10:30 › 20 ans après : les DCP côtiers ancrés réunionnais face à de nouveaux défis - David Guyomard, Comité Régional des Pêches Maritimes et des Elevages Marins  
10:30 - 10:50 › La pêche artisanale et les DCP aux Comores - Aboubacar Oirdi Zahir, INRAP  
10:50 - 11:10 › Development of the Fish Aggregating Devices Fishery in Mauritius - Sunil Panray Beeharry, Tuna/FAD 2011  
11:10 - 11:30 › An Account of Premature FAD Loss in the Maldives - Mohamed Shainee, Norwegian University of Science and Technology  
11:30 - 11:50 › Finite Element Model for FAD - Daniel PRIOUR, REM-RDT-HO  
11:50 - 12:10 › Coastal FAD development in Samoa - Autalavou Tauaefa, Fisheries Department of Samoa  
12:15 - 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hiti Mahana)  
14:00 - 15:40 2- Industrial fisheries on moored and drifting FADs (Endeavour)  
14:00 - 14:30 › An overview of world FAD fisheries by purse seiners, their impact on tuna stocks and their management - Alain Fonteneau, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (Sète)  
14:30 - 15:00 › Logs, FADs and Payaos: Towards consistency in definitions and characterization - Martin Hall, Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission  
15:00 - 15:20 › The fisheries on floating objects of the Eastern Pacific - Martin Hall, Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission  
15:20 - 15:40 › An overview of FAD-based fisheries and FAD issues in Indonesian archipelagic waters - Mohamad Natsir, Research Institute for Marine Fisheries  
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
16:10 - 18:00 2- Industrial fisheries on moored and drifting FADs (Endeavour)  
16:10 - 16:30 › FADs fishery in the Gulf of Thailand: time to manage - Pavarot Noranarttragoon, Asian Institute of Technology  
16:30 - 16:50 › FAD Programs in Papua New Guinea and their Commercial Uses - Samol Kanawi, National Fisheries Authority  
16:50 - 17:10 › Federated States of Micronesia FAD Management Plan - Naiten Bradley Phillip Jr., National Oceanic Management Authority  
17:10 - 17:30 › Status of FADs in Solomon Islands - Lionel Luda, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources  

Wednesday, November 30, 2011

Time Event  
08:00 - 09:40 3- Understanding the phenomenon of aggregation (Endeavour)  
08:00 - 08:20 › Using fish aggregating devices (FADs) as observatories of pelagic ecosystems - Laurent DAGORN, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  
08:20 - 08:40 › Social interactions and aggregation processes at FADs - Marianne Robert, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  
08:40 - 09:00 › Interplay between physical and social phenomena may explain the behavioral plasticity of tuna (Thunnus albacares) associated with an array of floating objects - Marianne Robert, EME, Laboratoire d Ecologie Sociale - Université Libre de Bruxelle  
09:00 - 09:20 › Islands and FADs; just how sticky are they? - David Itano - University of Hawaii  
09:20 - 09:40 › Behavior of Skipjack (Katsuwonus pelamis) and Yellowfin (Thunnus albacares) tuna in an array of Anchored FADs around the Maldive Islands - Riyaz Jauharee, Marine Research Centre  
09:40 - 10:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
10:10 - 12:30 3- Understanding the phenomenon of aggregation (Endeavour)  
10:10 - 10:30 › The Influence of FADs on the Vertical Distribution of Yellowfin Tuna in Hawaii - Kim HOLLAND, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii  
10:30 - 10:50 › Quantifying the spatial structure of fish aggregations around FADs at the micro- and mesoscale from field-based modeling and acoustic data analysis - Manuela Capello, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  
10:50 - 11:10 › Aggregation of early juvenile yellowfin tuna with payaos in the Philippines - Yasushi Mitsunaga, Department of Fisheries, Kinki University  
11:10 - 11:30 › Temporal patterns of small and large pelagic fish species under drifting and anchored FADs - marc Soria, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  
11:30 - 11:50 › Species composition and diversity of fish assemblages associated to anchored FADs in the Western Indian Ocean - Fabien Forget, Institut de Recherche pour le Developement, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, South African Institute of Aquatic Biodiversity  
11:50 - 12:10 › On the role of FADs in the ecology of juvenile silky sharks - John Filmalter, South African Institute for Aquatic Biodiversity, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement, Department of Ichthyology and Fisheries Science, Rhodes University  
12:10 - 12:30 › Do seamounts act as mooring FADs? - Morato Telmo, University of the Azores  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hiti Mahana)  
14:00 - 15:30 4- Ecosystem impacts of FADs (Endeavour)  
14:00 - 14:30 › Impacts of FAD fishing on the ecosystem - Laurent Dagorn, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  
14:30 - 14:50 › Bycatches in FAD fisheries - Martin Hall, Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission  
14:50 - 15:10 › Benefiting from Innovations in Sustainable and Equitable Management of Fisheries on Trans-boundary Tuna's in the Coral Triangle and Western Pacific (BESTTuna) - Paul A.M. van Zwieten, Aquaculture and Fisheries Group, Wageningen University  
15:10 - 15:30 › Overview of exploitation and ecology of pelagic fish associated with offshore drifting and anchored FADs in the WCPO - Bruno Leroy, Secretariat of the Pacific Community  
15:30 - 16:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
16:10 - 18:00 4- Ecosystem impacts of FADs (Endeavour)  
16:10 - 16:30 › Mitigating tropical tuna purse seine bycatch - Laurent DAGORN, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement  
16:30 - 16:50 › Survival rate of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) caught incidentally onboard French tropical purse seiners - Francois Poisson, IFREMER  
16:50 - 17:10 › Using fishers' echo-sounder buoys for remote discrimination of bycatch - Jon Lopez, AZTI  
19:00 - 21:30 6- Posters (Motu de Arue)  
19:00 - 21:30 › Catch composition in small-scale tuna fisheries associated to data buoy moored in the Western equatorial Atlantic - Guelson da Silva, Animal Sciences Department, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi Árido  
19:00 - 21:30 › DCP nouvelle génération : un outil de pêche comme plateforme pour l'observation des cétacés, Guadeloupe, Petites Antilles françaises. - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine  
19:00 - 21:30 › Elaboration d'une barge en aluminium pour l'ancrage des DCP en Polynésie française - Mainui Tanetoa, Service de la Pêche  
19:00 - 21:30 › Historique des DCP à Mayotte - Johanna Herfaut, Parc naturel marin de Mayotte  
19:00 - 21:30 › Involving tuna fishers in bycatch reduction research: the ISSF Skippers Workshops - Jefferson Murua, AZTI-Tecnalia  
19:00 - 21:30 › Que mangent les poissons pêchés sous les DCP ancrés ? - Lionel Reynal, Ifremer - UR de Martinique  
19:00 - 21:30 Technical platform (Motu de Arue)  

Thursday, December 1, 2011

Time Event  
08:00 - 09:40 5- Socio-economic impacts of FADs (Endeavour)  
08:00 - 08:20 › Economic Benefits of Fish Aggregating Devices in the South Pacific - Michael Sharp, Secretariat of the Pacific Community  
08:20 - 08:40 › Le rôle de l'investissement dans la pêche sous DCP. Le cas de la flottille thonière française de senneurs dans l'Océan Indien - Patrice Guillotreau, Laboratoire d'Economie et de Management de Nantes Atlantique  
08:40 - 09:00 › Exploring fishermen behaviour around Moored FADs : the example of air plane survey and vessels positioning system in Guadeloupe and Martinique. - Olivier Guyader, Unité de recherche Economie Maritime - UMR AMURE  
09:00 - 09:20 › Fishing strategies, economic performance and management of moored FADs in Guadeloupe - Olivier Guyader, UEM - UMR AMURE  
09:20 - 09:40 › Hawaii Community FADs: strategic locations, data collection, and cooperative research - Eric Kingma, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council  
09:40 - 10:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
10:10 - 12:00 5- Socio-economic impacts of FADs (Endeavour)  
10:10 - 10:30 › Moored Fishing Aggregating Devices development in Martinique: Review and Outlook after 20 years - Lionel Reynal, Ifremer - UR de Martinique  
10:30 - 10:50 › Fishing technology associated to a data buoy moored in the Western Equatorial Atlantic: impacts and benefits - Guelson da Silva, Animal Sciences Department, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi Árido  
10:50 - 11:10 › Towards sustainable FAD fishery in the WIO region. Efforts and milestones explored - Emmanuel Mbaru, Rhodes University, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute  
11:10 - 11:30 › The Secretariat of the Pacific Community's library - Stéphanie Watt, SPC Library  
12:00 - 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hiti Mahana)  
14:00 - 15:40 Roundtable (Endeavour) - Balencing anchored FAD design for costs, longevity and aggregation efficiency  
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
16:10 - 18:00 Roundtable (Endeavour) - Socio economic impacts and management of domestic FAD programs  

Friday, December 2, 2011

Time Event  
08:00 - 09:40 Roundtable - Drifting FAD: how to manage this efficient but dangerous fishing tool?  
09:40 - 10:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
10:10 - 12:30 Roundtable - Research priorities on both drifting and anchored FADs?  
12:30 - 14:00 Lunch (Restaurant Hiti Mahana)  
14:00 - 15:40 Summary (Endeavour)  
15:40 - 16:10 Coffee break (Patio)  
16:10 - 17:00 Conclusion (Endeavour)