1. Pacific – Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Fisheries Statistics
10th SPC Heads of Fisheries Meeting,
March 2017
Michael Sharp, Statistics for Development Division, SPC

2. Glossary
P-SPAFS: Pacific – Strategic Plan for Agricultural and Fisheries Statistics
“Agriculture” = crops, livestock, forestry, aquaculture and fisheries
Created by Pacific Island agricultural, fisheries and planning administrations for the Pacific; in collaboration with SPC and FAO.
Acknowledging the Global Strategy to improve agricultural and fisheries statistics and the European Union (EU) supported Intra ACP Pacific Agricultural Policy Project

3. What is P-SPAFS?
Distribution of the value of household consumption expenditure on fish and seafood, by source (HIES)

4. What are the objectives of P-SPAFS?
Develop a core set of regional indicators
Integrate fisheries statistics into national statistical systems
Improved use of statistics in policy formation
Increased capacity to collect, compile, process, interpret, analyse and disseminate fisheries statistics

5. How did P-SPAFS come about?
Rural households in Solomon Islands (HIES, 2012)

6. So what’s the plan?

7. Household participation in fisheries, FSM (HIES, 2013)
What’s happening now?
Household participation in fisheries, FSM (HIES, 2013)
Households who report not selling their fish and shellfish catch, FSM (HIES, 2013)

8. What are some examples? Data bank of non-standard units of measurement
CAPI collections
Data integration
Relationship between coastal ecosystem health, human consumption and human health
PACFish and PATHWAYS (PacFISH2):
Pacific food systems
Per capita fish consumption
Diet diversity, diversification and linkages to livelihoods, gender and youth
Women empowerment
Trade, economic growth and nutrition

9. What’s with regional harmonisation?
Household fisheries participation rate in Tokelau, Solomon Islands, FSM, Nauru and Palau (source: HIES)

10. How can fisheries be involved?
Inclusive of fisheries and aquaculture
Needs your endorsement, promotion and involvement
Avenues to design and use national collections to inform fisheries management and development
Regionally standardised approaches to collection, analysis and reporting
Link to national and regional policy and indicator frameworks
Sustainably feed Pacific People
Fish, tubers and fruit make up half of the value of food consumed in Yap
Half of the households in FSM fish for subsistence purposes
Use of livestock production in FSM

11. What’s next?
Heads of Fisheries are invited to discuss and seek clarification on P-SPAFS
Endorsement is sought from Heads of Fisheries on the current P-SPAFS draft
The draft will be taken to other authoritative bodies, such as HoA, HoPS and PSSC, and will be presented at the Pacific Week of Agriculture for final endorsement on October 2017

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