Tuna Fisheries and Fish Aggregating Devices (Tahiti FADs 2011)

This conference aims to take stock of the exploitation of large pelagic fish using anchored and drifting FADs in the world.

28 Nov-2 Dec 2011 Arue (French Polynesia)

Program

Week Mon. 28 Tue. 29 Wed. 30 Thu. 01 Fri. 02 List

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07:00 08:00 09:00 10:00 11:00 12:00 13:00 14:00 15:00 16:00 17:00 18:00 19:00 20:00 21:00	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

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