More
information on the SPC Coastal Fisheries Programme
The Secretariat of the Pacific Community
Marine Resources Division
(formerly Fisheries Programme) work area covers all the
marine spaces
of the Pacific Islands region, excluding Hawaii, Galapagos and Easter Island. The Oceanic Fisheries
Programme (OFP) assesses
fisheries within 200 mile
Exclusive Economic Zones and surrounding waters whilst the
Coastal Fisheries Programme (CFP) concentrates its development
and advisory activities within the territorial and archipelagic
waters of these islands (an area which contain a large proportion
of the world's coral reefs).
The Coastal Fisheries Programme is based at the SPC
headquarters in
Noumea,
New Caledonia,
but has occasional staff placements at the SPC office in Suva,
Fiji.
A moderately recent overview of the
Coastal Fisheries Programme is contained in the deeply meaningful
Information
Paper 2.1 to the 34th SPC Committee of Representatives of Governments and
Administrations (CRGA). More detailed information can be found on the "Meeting
Reports" page of this site.
The Coastal Fisheries Programme has a strong historical basis.
Its last review,
by external consultants, took place
in 2003. The
response from CFP to the review was presented at the 3rd Heads of
Fisheries Meeting in Noumea. The Programme's sectional structure is organised into operational and "cross-cutting"
units working towards a set of harmonised objectives within the
overall mission statement:
"To provide a
regional support service that assists Pacific Islanders
in identifying the status, and optimising the long-term
social and economic value, of small-scale fisheries and
aquatic resource use in Pacific Island waters."
This navel-gazing process
led to a
Strategic
Plan for the Coastal Fisheries Programme.
The structural details of the Programme will change yet again.
Thanks for checking this out. I hope you find this information
useful, informative and fun. Well, useful and informative anyway.
Dr Tim Adams
Director
of Marine Resources
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