Pêches Thonières et DCP / Tuna Fisheries and FADs

Mon. 28

Tue. 29

Wed. 30

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Fri. 02

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Welcoming

7:30 - 9:00 (1h30)

Welcoming

Welcoming participants to the conference and personalities

Opening ceremony & Official speeches

9:00 - 10:30 (1h30)

Opening ceremony & Official speeches

Endeavour

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

10:30 - 12:30 (2h)

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

Endeavour

› Nearshore FAD types and designs currently used in the Pacific - William Sokimi, Secrétariat de la Communauté du Pacifique 10:30-10:50 (20min)

› Fish Aggregating Device deployments and maintenance on Guam - Jamie Bass, Division of Aquatic and Wildlife Resources 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› American Samoa FADs Program - Nonumaifele Tuisamoa, Department of Marine and Wildlife Resources 11:10-11:30 (20min)

› Les DCP ancrés à Wallis et Futuna - Bruno Mugneret, Service des Affaires Rurales et de la Pêche 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› Cook Islands National FAD Programme - Terakura Tatuava, Ministry of Marine Resources 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› Status of Fish Aggregating Device (FAD) fisheries in Tonga - Sione Mailau, Fisheries Division of Ministry of Agriculture & Fodd, Forest and Fisheries 12:10-12:30 (20min)

Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

Restaurant Hiti Mahana

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

14:00 - 15:40 (1h40)

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

Endeavour

› Regional overviews of the use of anchored and drifting FADs (Palau) - Lora Demei, Bureau of Marine Resources - Ministry of Resources & Development 14:00-14:20 (20min)

› Marshall Islands FAD Programme - Candice Guavis, Marshall Islands Marine Resources Authority 14:20-14:40 (20min)

› Tuvalu National FAD Programme - Samuelu Telii, Fisheries Department 14:40-15:00 (20min)

› Les DCP ancrés en Nouvelle-Calédonie: historique, technologie, utilisation et perspectives - Manuel DUCROCQ, ADECAL 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› Le programme d'ancrage des DCP en Polynésie française - Mainui Tanetoa, Département Développement Pêche Hauturière 15:20-15:40 (20min)

Coffee break

15:40 - 16:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

16:10 - 17:30 (1h20)

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

Endeavour

› Overview of the current status of FAD deployments in Australian waters - Spooner Daniel, Department of Primary Industries - Fisheries 16:10-16:30 (20min)

› Mediterranean FADs fishery: an overview - Beatriz Morales-Nin, Mediterranean Institute Advanced Studies-CSIC/UIB 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› The Maltese FADs fishery - Mark Gatt, Agriculture and Fisheries Regulation Department of Malta 16:50-17:10 (20min)

› 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 17:10-17:30 (20min)

Cocktail at French Polynesia's Presidential hall

19:00 - 21:30 (2h30)

Cocktail at French Polynesia's Presidential hall

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

8:00 - 9:20 (1h20)

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

Endeavour

› Le DCP du parc collectif de Guadeloupe, conception, études et fabrication. - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine 08:00-08:20 (20min)

› Le parc de DCP collectifs de Guadeloupe, suivi et entretien. - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine 08:20-08:40 (20min)

› La courantologie associée au DCP et les perspectives de mutualisation des parcs de DCP collectifs - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine 08:40-09:00 (20min)

› Le parc de DCP collectifs de Martinique, d'Haïti et de Mayotte - Paul Gervain, PLKMarine 09:00-09:20 (20min)

Coffee break

9:20 - 10:10 (50min)

Coffee break

Patio

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

10:10 - 12:15 (2h05)

1- Artisanal Fisheries and moored FAD programs

Endeavour

› 20 ans après : les DCP côtiers ancrés réunionnais face à de nouveaux défis - David Guyomard, Comité Régional des Pêches Maritimes et des Elevages Marins 10:10-10:30 (20min)

› La pêche artisanale et les DCP aux Comores - Aboubacar Oirdi Zahir, INRAP 10:30-10:50 (20min)

› Development of the Fish Aggregating Devices Fishery in Mauritius - Sunil Panray Beeharry, Tuna/FAD 2011 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› An Account of Premature FAD Loss in the Maldives - Mohamed Shainee, Norwegian University of Science and Technology 11:10-11:30 (20min)

› Finite Element Model for FAD - Daniel PRIOUR, REM-RDT-HO 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› Coastal FAD development in Samoa - Autalavou Tauaefa, Fisheries Department of Samoa 11:50-12:10 (20min)

Lunch

12:15 - 14:00 (1h45)

Lunch

Restaurant Hiti Mahana

2- Industrial fisheries on moored and drifting FADs

14:00 - 15:40 (1h40)

2- Industrial fisheries on moored and drifting FADs

Endeavour

› 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) 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Logs, FADs and Payaos: Towards consistency in definitions and characterization - Martin Hall, Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission 14:30-15:00 (30min)

› The fisheries on floating objects of the Eastern Pacific - Martin Hall, Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission 15:00-15:20 (20min)

› An overview of FAD-based fisheries and FAD issues in Indonesian archipelagic waters - Mohamad Natsir, Research Institute for Marine Fisheries 15:20-15:40 (20min)

Coffee break

15:40 - 16:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

2- Industrial fisheries on moored and drifting FADs

16:10 - 18:00 (1h50)

2- Industrial fisheries on moored and drifting FADs

Endeavour

› FADs fishery in the Gulf of Thailand: time to manage - Pavarot Noranarttragoon, Asian Institute of Technology 16:10-16:30 (20min)

› FAD Programs in Papua New Guinea and their Commercial Uses - Samol Kanawi, National Fisheries Authority 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Federated States of Micronesia FAD Management Plan - Naiten Bradley Phillip Jr., National Oceanic Management Authority 16:50-17:10 (20min)

› Status of FADs in Solomon Islands - Lionel Luda, Ministry of Fisheries and Marine Resources 17:10-17:30 (20min)

3- Understanding the phenomenon of aggregation

8:00 - 9:40 (1h40)

3- Understanding the phenomenon of aggregation

Endeavour

› Using fish aggregating devices (FADs) as observatories of pelagic ecosystems - Laurent DAGORN, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 08:00-08:20 (20min)

› Social interactions and aggregation processes at FADs - Marianne Robert, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 08:20-08:40 (20min)

› 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 08:40-09:00 (20min)

› Islands and FADs; just how sticky are they? - 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› 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 09:20-09:40 (20min)

Coffee break

9:40 - 10:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

3- Understanding the phenomenon of aggregation

10:10 - 12:30 (2h20)

3- Understanding the phenomenon of aggregation

Endeavour

› The Influence of FADs on the Vertical Distribution of Yellowfin Tuna in Hawaii - Kim HOLLAND, Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii 10:10-10:30 (20min)

› 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 10:30-10:50 (20min)

› Aggregation of early juvenile yellowfin tuna with payaos in the Philippines - Yasushi Mitsunaga, Department of Fisheries, Kinki University 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› Temporal patterns of small and large pelagic fish species under drifting and anchored FADs - marc Soria, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 11:10-11:30 (20min)

› 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 11:30-11:50 (20min)

› 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 11:50-12:10 (20min)

› Do seamounts act as mooring FADs? - Morato Telmo, University of the Azores 12:10-12:30 (20min)

Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

Restaurant Hiti Mahana

4- Ecosystem impacts of FADs

14:00 - 15:30 (1h30)

4- Ecosystem impacts of FADs

Endeavour

› Impacts of FAD fishing on the ecosystem - Laurent Dagorn, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 14:00-14:30 (30min)

› Bycatches in FAD fisheries - Martin Hall, Inter-American tropical Tuna Commission 14:30-14:50 (20min)

› 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 14:50-15:10 (20min)

› 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 15:10-15:30 (20min)

Coffee break

15:30 - 16:10 (40min)

Coffee break

Patio

4- Ecosystem impacts of FADs

16:10 - 18:00 (1h50)

4- Ecosystem impacts of FADs

Endeavour

› Mitigating tropical tuna purse seine bycatch - Laurent DAGORN, Institut de Recherche pour le Développement 16:10-16:30 (20min)

› Survival rate of silky sharks (Carcharhinus falciformis) caught incidentally onboard French tropical purse seiners - Francois Poisson, IFREMER 16:30-16:50 (20min)

› Using fishers' echo-sounder buoys for remote discrimination of bycatch - Jon Lopez, AZTI 16:50-17:10 (20min)

6- Posters
Technical platform

19:00 - 21:30 (2h30)

6- Posters

Motu de Arue

› 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 (2h30)

› 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 (2h30)

› Elaboration d'une barge en aluminium pour l'ancrage des DCP en Polynésie française - Mainui Tanetoa, Service de la Pêche 19:00-21:30 (2h30)

› Historique des DCP à Mayotte - Johanna Herfaut, Parc naturel marin de Mayotte 19:00-21:30 (2h30)

› Involving tuna fishers in bycatch reduction research: the ISSF Skippers Workshops - Jefferson Murua, AZTI-Tecnalia 19:00-21:30 (2h30)

› Que mangent les poissons pêchés sous les DCP ancrés ? - Lionel Reynal, Ifremer - UR de Martinique 19:00-21:30 (2h30)

19:00 - 21:30 (2h30)

Technical platform

Motu de Arue

5- Socio-economic impacts of FADs

8:00 - 9:40 (1h40)

5- Socio-economic impacts of FADs

Endeavour

› Economic Benefits of Fish Aggregating Devices in the South Pacific - Michael Sharp, Secretariat of the Pacific Community 08:00-08:20 (20min)

› 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 08:20-08:40 (20min)

› 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 08:40-09:00 (20min)

› Fishing strategies, economic performance and management of moored FADs in Guadeloupe - Olivier Guyader, UEM - UMR AMURE 09:00-09:20 (20min)

› Hawaii Community FADs: strategic locations, data collection, and cooperative research - Eric Kingma, Western Pacific Regional Fishery Management Council 09:20-09:40 (20min)

Coffee break

9:40 - 10:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

5- Socio-economic impacts of FADs

10:10 - 12:00 (1h50)

5- Socio-economic impacts of FADs

Endeavour

› Moored Fishing Aggregating Devices development in Martinique: Review and Outlook after 20 years - Lionel Reynal, Ifremer - UR de Martinique 10:10-10:30 (20min)

› 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 10:30-10:50 (20min)

› Towards sustainable FAD fishery in the WIO region. Efforts and milestones explored - Emmanuel Mbaru, Rhodes University, Kenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute 10:50-11:10 (20min)

› The Secretariat of the Pacific Community's library - Stéphanie Watt, SPC Library 11:10-11:30 (20min)

Lunch

12:00 - 14:00 (2h)

Lunch

Restaurant Hiti Mahana

Roundtable

14:00 - 15:40 (1h40)

Roundtable

Endeavour

Balencing anchored FAD design for costs, longevity and aggregation efficiency

Coffee break

15:40 - 16:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

Roundtable

16:10 - 18:00 (1h50)

Roundtable

Endeavour

Socio economic impacts and management of domestic FAD programs

Roundtable

8:00 - 9:40 (1h40)

Roundtable

Drifting FAD: how to manage this efficient but dangerous fishing tool?

Coffee break

9:40 - 10:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

Roundtable

10:10 - 12:30 (2h20)

Roundtable

Research priorities on both drifting and anchored FADs?

Lunch

12:30 - 14:00 (1h30)

Lunch

Restaurant Hiti Mahana

Summary

14:00 - 15:40 (1h40)

Summary

Endeavour

Coffee break

15:40 - 16:10 (30min)

Coffee break

Patio

Conclusion

16:10 - 17:00 (50min)

Conclusion

Endeavour