1. CoastAL Fisheries Program
FAME
CoastAL Fisheries Program
Expertise and Capabilities

2. PEUMP Objectives – KRA 3
“Sustainable management of fisheries resources and ecosystems improved through better quality scientific information, legal advice, support, mentoring and empowerment of coastal communities”
(3.1) Surveys of commercially important invertebrates;
(3.2) socio-economic surveys of coastal communities including gender segregated data;
(3.3) coastal fisheries data collection and national database development including trials of new technology;
(3.4) support and mentoring for the community ecosystem approach to fisheries management (CEAFM) at national and local levels;
(3.5) CEAFM management and coordination with NGOs;
(3.6) CEAFM activities at sub-national and community level;
(3.7) communication activities and production and dissemination of information and materials for communities;
(3.8) capacity development through long-term and short-term attachments for national fisheries and NGO staff;
(3.9) Outreach activities including adaptation with communities;
(3.10) gender-based and rights-based trainings, national gender stock takes

3. Staff Profiles Andrew Halford – Senior Coastal Fisheries Scientist
Core Funding
Pauline Bosserelle – Coastal Fisheries Science Officer
MFAT Funding
George Shedrawi – Invertebrate Fisheries Scientist
PEUMP Project Funding

4. Staff Profiles Jeff Kinch – Social Scientist PEUMP Project Funding
Bernard Vigga – Database Specialist
PEUMP Funding

5. Capabilities Surveys Data Management Training
In-water (fishery independent)
Market surveys (collective effort and economics)
Creel surveys (individual effort and economics)
Data Management
Collection protocols
Storage
Extraction, analysis and interpretation
Reporting
Training
**Post – survey, data management and training follow-up!**

6. Capabilities - Support Framework
Management – linking science to concrete outcomes
Coastal Fisheries Science Team
MCS – monitoring and surveillance
Legal – providing appropriate regulatory frameworks
Communication – local, country, regional, international

7. Examples Coconut Crabs – Futuna, Cook Islands Mangrove Crabs - Pohnpei
Sea Cucumber - Pohnpei, Tonga, New Caledonia
Coconut Crabs – Futuna, Cook Islands
Mangrove Crabs - Pohnpei

8. Examples Lobster - Futuna Trochus - Wallis
Corals – Futuna, Niue, Marshall Islands

9. Examples
Post-disturbance assessments (cyclones, bleaching, eutrophication events) - Vanuatu

10. Requests – existing French Polynesia – Beche-de-Mer
Tonga – Coral Reef Health, Beche-de mer
Tuvalu – Fish surveys
Fiji – Market Surveys, Underwater Surveys
Kiribati – Aquarium Fish Survey, HIES survey collaboration, Climate Change Survey
Samoa – Training in Invert survey Methodologies