1. Report of the Aquaculture Programme
Robert Jimmy
Aquaculture Adviser

2. 2012 Activities- Result 2.1: Improved regional and national capacity for strategic policy, planning and administration
Technical assistance on Aquaculture Development Plan & review: Cook Is & Samoa completed; Nauru & Vanuatu Plans in final stages of completion.
Produced policy briefs on opportunities in mariculture development.
Development of a framework of collaboration in aquaculture for Melanesian Spearhead Group Members (MSG).
Aquaculture legislative support to Fiji and Vanuatu.
Participate in regional and subregional aquaculture conferences and workshops: FAO-COFI [Rome], FAO Sub-committee on Aquaculture (Cook Is), NACA, Australasian Aquaculture Conference & MSG

3. 2012 Activities- Result 2.2: Increased skills and knowledge base in the SPC region and its member countries and territories, so as to maximize the return on investments in aquaculture through innovative, profitable and sustainable approaches
Worldfish/ACIAR milkfish culture project in Solomon Islands.
Technical assistance establishment of mariculture hatchery facilities in 3 countries (e.g. New Caledonia, Samoa & PNG.
Provide technical assistance, hatchery and ponds trials of the Eastern strain of Macrobrachium rosenbergii native to PNG under ACIAR.
Provide technical assistance to aquaponics Public-Private Partnership in Cook Islands (on-going)
Provide technical assistance, expert consultation and development assistance to identified projects under Increasing Agricuture Commodity Trade (IACT) project.....PICT enterprises identified for assistance in 2013 from expressions of interest

4. 2012 Activities- Continue- Result 2
2012 Activities- Continue- Result 2.2: Increased skills and knowledge base in the SPC region…
Organised subregional hands-on seaweed in Lombok Indonesia for 4 countries (Fiji, Kiribati, Solomon Islands & FSM).
Provided joint SPC/JICA subregional training on milkfish farming at Vitawa Village, Ra Province, FIJI for 10 countries (Cook Is, Fiji, French Polynesia, Kiribati, Palau, Nauru, Tonga, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, Vanuatu).
Prototype Aquaponics Unit at SPC Suva, constructed (DONE) and in operation
Provided country specific training attachments to 4 countries (Guam on grouper training in Thailand, French Polynesia on shrimp disease diagnosis in US, Samoa and Solomon Is on freshwater aquaculture in China)
Provide technical assistance to New Caledonia on scallop and lobster projects

5. 2012 Activities- Result 2.3: Competent authorities established and/or supported, to manage aquatic biosecurity risks and to facilitate trade.
Regional
SPC/OIE disease reporting workshop in Nadi
Organized SPC/FAO regional workshop on aquatic biosecurity and aquaculture statistics
Sub-regional
Provide support for development of a sub-regional biosecurity framework for Micronesia.
Country Specific
Risk analysis for sandfish introduction for Kiribati.
Risk analysis for cobia introduction for PNG.
Risk analysis for seaweed introduction for Fiji.
Risk analysis for introduction of Nile Tilapia to Solomon islands
Specific training on diagnosis and management of health problems of sandfish for Kiribati & Fiji

6. 2013 Programme Activities

7. Result Area 2.1: Improved regional and national capacity for strategic policy, planning and administration
New/updated National Aquaculture Plan completed for 3 countries
Undertake aquaculture programme needs assessment in 4 PICTs
Aquaculture portal up to date with all materials
Improve several strategies for policy, planning and administration of aquaculture in the region
Complete national aquaculture legislation in 2 PICTs
Policy briefs completed on outcome of regional aquaculture assessments studies

8. Result 2.2: Increased skills and knowledge base in the SPC region and its member countries and territories…
Undertake trochus reseeding in two PICTs
Investigate feasibility of Mud Crab (new production area) and export (import substitution) potential in one PICT
Undertake feasibility of aquaponics in 2 PICTs.
Demonstration site of aquaculture farmer networks/clusters established in 3 PICTs.
Assistance provided to 2 new IACT Enterprises
Continuation of fish feeds development work in 4 countries via on-farm trials of feed formulations that use local ingredients
Aquaculture feasibility report and workshop, based upon hatchery and pond trials of the prawn Macrobrachium spinipes indigenous to PNG

9. Result 2.2: Increased skills and knowledge base in the SPC region and its member countries and territories…
Undertake nursery and pen culture trial of sandfish in Kiribati
Improved seaweed culture and production in 3 countries
Mariculture hatchery facilities established in 4 countries
Training attachment completed on mariculture for 2 PICTs
Technical factsheets produced on mariculture aquaculture commodities for New Caledonia
Sub-regional training workshops conducted for 5 PICTs on fish broodstock management and fish-feeds formulation.
Experts Consultation workshop to review current status, future potential, and researchable constraints of aquaponics in PICTs

10. Result 2.3: Competent authorities established and/or supported, to manage aquatic biosecurity risks and to facilitate trade.
National aquatic biosecurity policy & legislation completed for 3 PICTs
Finalise SPC regional aquatic biosecurity framework
Advice provided on introductions and quarantine requirements on aquaculture.
A Micronesia sub-regional biosecurity framework developed
Provide training attachment to 1 PICT on aquatic biosecurity
Facilitate and assist PICTs to make Country Reports for the FAO State of the World’s Aquatic Genetic Resources review.

11. THANK YOU