Talk at Dal about Tuna Management
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The Faculty and Students of the Marine Affairs Program invite you to a
seminar:
"Regional Tuna Management in the Western and Central Pacific"
Don Aldous, MMM
Monday, November 3, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Room 3089
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Dalhousie University Campus
Abstract
The Western and Central Pacific is home for over 40% of the world's tuna resources and the Pacific Islands have traditionally been on the leading edge of cooperative management in the fishery. They were the first to recognize their individual weakness but collective strength with the opening of the Forum Fisheries Agency in 1984. They were the first to develop what has become known as a "positive list of fishing vessels" in implementing the Regional Register in 1986. They were the first to challenge the US tuna Fleet in their courts. Now they are embarking on an ambitious plan to control the fishing effort of the Distant Water Fishing Nations tuna purse seine fleet. The Vessel Day Scheme has no precedent at the international level and poses some difficult issues for the Pacific Islands as they struggle to gain maximum benefit from their resources while ensuring the stocks are sustainable.
Bio
Don Aldous is a fisheries management consultant based in Nova Scotia who has built a career in the global tuna fishery. He spent 12 years with Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the last 16 years as an independent consultant. He has been a government fisheries manager, an ICCAT Commissioner and advisor to governments in the Pacific Islands. He is also a graduate of Dalhousie's Marine Affairs program having completed his MMM in 2006. Currently he is working with Pacific organizations and governments as they implement a new regional strategy for controlling fishing effort in the entire Western and Central Pacific.
For more information, contact the Marine Affairs Program, Marine.Affairs@dal.ca, 494-3555
seminar:
"Regional Tuna Management in the Western and Central Pacific"
Don Aldous, MMM
Monday, November 3, 2008
12:30 - 1:30 PM
Room 3089
Kenneth C. Rowe Management Building
6100 University Avenue, Dalhousie University Campus
Abstract
The Western and Central Pacific is home for over 40% of the world's tuna resources and the Pacific Islands have traditionally been on the leading edge of cooperative management in the fishery. They were the first to recognize their individual weakness but collective strength with the opening of the Forum Fisheries Agency in 1984. They were the first to develop what has become known as a "positive list of fishing vessels" in implementing the Regional Register in 1986. They were the first to challenge the US tuna Fleet in their courts. Now they are embarking on an ambitious plan to control the fishing effort of the Distant Water Fishing Nations tuna purse seine fleet. The Vessel Day Scheme has no precedent at the international level and poses some difficult issues for the Pacific Islands as they struggle to gain maximum benefit from their resources while ensuring the stocks are sustainable.
Bio
Don Aldous is a fisheries management consultant based in Nova Scotia who has built a career in the global tuna fishery. He spent 12 years with Canada's Department of Fisheries and Oceans and the last 16 years as an independent consultant. He has been a government fisheries manager, an ICCAT Commissioner and advisor to governments in the Pacific Islands. He is also a graduate of Dalhousie's Marine Affairs program having completed his MMM in 2006. Currently he is working with Pacific organizations and governments as they implement a new regional strategy for controlling fishing effort in the entire Western and Central Pacific.
For more information, contact the Marine Affairs Program, Marine.Affairs@dal.ca, 494-3555
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