FEG Scientific Workshop on Governance for Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Interactions and Coevolution

Meeting - Sunday, 25th of March 2012 - Institute of Marine Research, Bergen, Norway

Bergen 25-27 March 2012

A meeting organized under the aegis of the Fisheries Expert Group of the IUCN Commission on Ecosystem Management (IUCN-CEM-FEG) and coordinated by the European Bureau for Conservation and Development (EBCD)

General information

Meeting purpose

The meeting brings together the authors of the book being prepared on Governance of Fisheries and Marine Conservation: Interactions and Coevolution to be published by Wiley-Blackwell. Authors will present the first drafts of their papers, key points and conclusions. The discussions following each presentation should help improving the chapters and the positive overlap between chapters, pointing to duplications and gaps if any. They will also help strengthening the authors consensus around the key messages contained in the book.

Attendance

This meeting is by invitations only and will be attended by the authors of the chapter and the members of FEG

Presentations

The order of the presentations shown below corresponds to the sequence of chapters in the book. This may change depending on travel plans of the authors. Attendance to the entire 3-day session is highly advised. As far as possible, all chapters will be presented, whether their authors could make it to the meeting or not.

As draft chapters will have been sent in advance and made available upon arrival, presenters will have 10 minutes for presentation and 15 minutes for discussion/clarification. The latter being very important, presenters are kindly asked to comply strictly with the timing. Suggestions from the floor will be noted for each chapter. At the end of each session, a general discussion on the session will be organized.

PowerPoint presentation files should be submitted the day before to the meeting Secretariat and in any case before the session when it is due.

The sessions will be chaired by coeditors.

Meeting outcome

Notes will be taken on the discussions of each chapter and at the end of each session by each author and a session rapporteur. A report of the meeting will be prepared with the key conclusions.

Meeting place and travel instruction

Detailed information about the meeting place in Brussels and the instructions on how to reach it will be sent in due course to all participants,

Draft Agenda:

25 March 2012
Opening session
09:00	Opening welcome
09:15	Self- introduction of the participants
09:45	Adoption of the Agenda, nomination of session rapporteurs
10:00	Coffee break
Session I - Introduction
10:30	1 .Fisheries management and marine conservation integration challenge
10:55	2. Trends in ocean fisheries and conservation governance
11:20	3. Policy and management instruments: fisheries and conservation
11:45	Discussion on Session I
12:15	Lunch break
Session II – Dimensions of governance
14:00	4. Bio-ecological dimension of fisheries and conservation governance
14:25	5. Economic dimension of fisheries and conservation governance
14:50	6. Social dimension offisheries and conservation governance
15:15	Coffee break
15:45	7. Spatial dimension of fisheries & conservation governance
16:10	8. Legal dimension of fisheries and conservation governance: Hoel, TBA.
16:35	9. Scientific foundation: towards integration: Rice, Jennings (TBC)
17:10	Discussion on Session II
17:45	Closure
26 March 2012
Session III A - Global governance
09:00	10. Fisheries and conservation at the UN level
09:25	11. Fisheries and conservation: FAO and CITES interaction
09:50	12. Fisheries and conservation in the high seas: EBSAs and VMEs.
10:15	12b. Interactions among fisheries and environmental actors in SIDS
10:40	Coffee break
11:10	Discussion on global governance
Session IIIB – Regional governance
11:30	13. Regional governance for fisheries and conservation
11:55	14. Regional governance: the case of NEAFC and OSPAR
12:20	Lunch break
14:30	15. Regional governance: the Mediterranean cradle
14:55	16. CCAMLR and the Antarctic conservation
15:20	17. EAF in the Benguela LME area
15:45	Coffee break
16:15	18. Governance of conservation and fisheries in the European Union
16:40	Discussion on regional governance
17:10	Closure
27 March 2012
Session III C – National governance and themes
09:00	19. Community stewardship and sustainable small-scale fisheries
09:25	20. The role of capacity building and research
09:50	21. Development impacts of fisheries management and marine conservation.
10:15	Coffee break
10:45	Demographic and poverty in small-scale fisheries: India and other developing countries
11:10	The role of national frameworks (SD, EBM, IOM)
11:35	The role of fishers’ organizations in conservation
12:00	Legislation and courts in the interaction between fisheries management & conservation
12:00	Lunch break
14:00	Discussion on national governance and themes
Session IV - Synthesis and outlook
14:30	Synthesis based on rapporteurs’ output. General discussion and conclusions about governance in nature conservation and fisheries: key issues (misunderstanding, conflicts, synergies), main gaps and solutions (way forward, legal and institutional bridges; scientific issues), key messages.
16:00	Next milestones for the book production
16:30	Meeting closure