PROCEEDINGS OF THE FOuRTH INTERNaTIONal FISHERS FORum

(TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS)
(A) Industrial group (boat-owners,
exporters, and processors)
Session Chair: Dr. Makoto “Peter”
Miyake (OPRT)
Panelists:
* Mr. Charles Hufflett, Pacific Islands
Tuna Industry Association (PITIA)
* Mr. Rafael Baires, Tiburón Pinto
Export
(B) Artisanal group
Session Chair: Ms. Gabriella Cruz,
National Federation of Artisanal
Fishers of Ecuador
Panelists:
* Mr. Ramon Agama, Federation
for the Integration and Unification
of the Artisanal Fishers of Peru
* Mr. Manny Duenas, Guam
Fishermen’s Cooperative
Association
* Mr. Wawan Koswara, Indonesia
Tuna Association
11:15–11:30 Coffee Break
11:30–12:30 Presentations of outcomes of the
Industrial and artisanal groups to the
Plenary, and Discussion
12:30–13:45 Lunch
12:30–13:45 Fishermen’s luncheon (fishermen only)
Chair: Mr. Sean Martin, Hawaii
Longline Association
13:45–16:00 (TWO CONCURRENT SESSIONS)
(A) Status of Sea Turtle Bycatch
Initiatives
Session Co-Chairs: Dr. Hiroshi
Minami, National Research Institute
of Far Seas Fisheries, Japan, and
Dr. Yonat Swimmer, U.S. National
Marine Fisheries Service
Presenters:
• Dr. Kosuke Yokota, National
Research Institute of Far Seas
Fisheries, Japan: Effective
approaches to reduce sea turtle
interactions in longline fisheries
• Dr. Martin Hall, Inter-American
Tropical Tuna Commission:
The development of the
Regional Sea Turtle Program
of the Eastern Pacific: Results
of mitigation activities,
achievements, and hurdles
• Dr. Yonat Swimmer, U.S.
National Marine Fisheries Service:
Update on modified fishing gear
to reduce bycatch of sea turtles
in longline global fisheries
• Mr. Steve Beverly, Secretariat
of the Pacific Community: Deep
setting longlines to avoid
bycatch
Discussion: Research priorities to
reduce sea turtle interactions and
injury in pelagic longline fisheries
13:45–16:00 (B) Seabird Bycatch and Artisanal Fisheries
Session Chair: Dr. Ben Sullivan, Royal
Society for the Protection of Birds/
BirdLife International
Presenters:
• Dr. Ben Sullivan, BirdLife
International: Seabird bycatch
and artisanal fisheries
• Ms. Tatiana Neves, Projeto
Albatroz: First South American
Fishers Forum to Reduce
Seabird Bycatch
• Mr. Jorge Fernandes De Freitas,
Itaipava Fishery Association,
and Mr. Jose Arthur Marquioli,
Projeto Albatroz: Description
of dolphinfish fishery by
the Itaipava-ES fleet and its
interaction with the seabirds
in Brazil
• Dr. Esteban Frere, Universidad
Nacional de la Patagonia Austral:
Artisanal longline fisheries in
South and Central America;
A preliminary evaluation of their
bycatch of seabirds
Discussion
Compiling an encyclopedia on
Latin American artisanal fisheries,
potential application for managing
seabird bycatch
Program
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