Fisheries Newsletter No 129 (May-August 2009)

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Number 129 (May-August 2009)

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Produced by the Pacific Community, Division of Fisheries, Aquaculture and Marine Ecosystems, Information Section, BP D5, 98848 Noumea Cedex, New Caledonia
Produced with financial assistance from France, Australia and New Zealand

Editorial

We open this issue with a tribute to our colleague Michael Manning, who passed away on 7 September while on duty travel in Tuvalu. Michael, a young and brilliant fisheries scientist, had only been working for eight months with SPC’s Oceanic Fisheries Programme, but it was enough to leave a mark on all the people who had the chance to work with him.

Tuna is probably the most cited word in this issue, as we publish five articles related to it: a report about the outcomes of the latest meeting of the Scientific Committee for the Western and Central Pacific Fisheries Commission, preliminary results of a study on tuna fisheries around seamounts, an update on tuna fisheries in the region, a description of fishing techniques used by purse seiners around FADs, and a detailed report on the efforts made to better understand the tuna fisheries of our neighbour, Indonesia.

And these are only some of the many fisheries and aquaculture-related topics we address here, and we hope that they will capture your attention. Don’t hesitate to let us know what you think of this issue, and to share any news you would like to see published here.

 
Aymeric Desurmont

Fisheries Information Officer

  

In this issue

Tribute to Michael Manning (pdf: 99 KB)

SPC ACTIVITIES

Oceanic Fisheries Programme

  • Scientific Committee meeting of the WCPFC (pdf: 80 KB)

  • Tuna fisheries and pelagic biodiversity around seamounts in the western and central Pacific Ocean (pdf: 249 KB)

  • Tuna fisheries in the western and central Pacific, an update (pdf: 79 KB)

Nearshore Fisheries Development and Training Section
(pdf: 123 KB)

  • Techniques to reduce bycatch of endangered species

  • Hook exchange project in Cook Islands reduces sea turtle bycatch

Reef Fisheries Observatory

  • Ciguatera-like fish poisoning from giant clams
    on Emao Island, Vanuatu (pdf: 405 KB)

  • News from the CoFISH and PROCFish projects (pdf: 84 KB)

Aquaculture Section (pdf: 177 KB)

  • Promising spat collection trials in New Caledonia

  • The potential for aquaculture development in
    Wallis and Futuna

NEWS FROM IN AND AROUND THE REGION

  • Making decisions about tuna fishing in the Pacific — WCPFC factsheets (pdf: 94 KB)

  • 14th PIMRIS steering committee meeting (pdf: 64 KB)

  • Deploying a submerged FAD at Kavala, Fiji (pdf: 120 KB)

FEATURE ARTICLES

  • Purse-seine fishing around moored FADs in Papua New Guinea
    by W. Sokimi (pdf: 183 KB)

  • Indonesian tuna fisheries: Getting to know our neighbours
    by P. Williams (pdf: 734 KB)

  • ADB Benefish Study
    by R.E. Gillett (pdf: 58 KB)